{"id":9112,"date":"2026-02-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?p=9112"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:30:23","slug":"everyone-loves-a-vintage-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/everyone-loves-a-vintage-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone loves a vintage bike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Since last entry \u2026 a ton of snow (OK about four inches) and frigid temperatures.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End @ 64,725 (19 miles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AGAIN a total pain in the ass to start the bike. Took nearly 10 minutes, I kept wondering if I flooded the stinking thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rode a few miles over to Steve Johnson&#8217;s place to get his input on how to secure my tool roll and a quart of oil in the right-side pannier. Took the long way home just to ride a bit. Once it&#8217;s running, the bike is great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some random woman in a parking lot wanted to chat about the bike. It&#8217;s kind of funny but also very cool. Everyone loves a vintage bike!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_helmet-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9113 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_helmet-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9113 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_helmet-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_helmet-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_helmet-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_r90_helmet.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><I>They &#8211; yes &#8220;THEY!&#8221; say you should never hang your helmet off the handlebar like this.<\/I><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some random woman in a parking lot wanted to chat about the bike. It\u2019s kind of funny but also very cool. Everyone loves a vintage bike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding-without-cruise-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10225,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions\/10225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}