{"id":16243,"date":"2026-04-26T16:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16243"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:23:11","slug":"wallace-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16243","title":{"rendered":"Wallace and&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I took the Ninja our for a post-engineering trundle yesterday. The first stop was Chris Walker Kawasaki in Grantham where I enquired about nearly-new ZX10-Rs. They didn&#8217;t have any, though they had lots of smaller-engined machines (a Ninja 125, a Ninja 400, and a Ninja 600) which I sneered at. But they did show me the brand-spanking-new 2026 ZX10-R model. Hmmm. The jury is still out on shifting in that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, while I was there, I did spot this magnificent contraption:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086187-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16244\" style=\"width:612px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086187-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086187-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086187-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086187-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086187-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086187-1170x878.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Straight away, I thought of Chewie, my little faithful brown companion sitting beside me. Of course, he&#8217;d have to be dressed appropriately. And through the magic of technology, here is is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"703\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086189-703x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16245\" style=\"width:611px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086189-703x1024.jpg 703w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086189-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086189-768x1119.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000086189.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the Ninja our for a post-engineering trundle yesterday. The first stop was Chris Walker Kawasaki in Grantham where I enquired about nearly-new ZX10-Rs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16247,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions\/16247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}