{"id":6750,"date":"2012-02-17T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2012-02-17T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T11:47:20","slug":"two-wheels-good-four-wheels-also-good-1729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6750","title":{"rendered":"Two wheels good; four wheels also good (17\/29)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year when this man&#8217;s thoughts turn, inevitably, to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6751\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6751\" title=\"kawasaki_GPZ500\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/kawasaki_GPZ500-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/kawasaki_GPZ500-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/kawasaki_GPZ500-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/kawasaki_GPZ500.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>bikes!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am not, in brand terms, a &#8216;manufacturer&#8217; kind of person. I passed my test on a Kawasaki GPZ500S (pictured) and therefore have a bit of a soft spot for them.<\/p>\n<p>I do like my former school-friend Robert&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6752\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6752\" title=\"Triumph_Tiger\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/Triumph_Tiger-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Triumph_Tiger-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Triumph_Tiger.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Triumph Tiger<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is a totally different animal to the GPZ500, but it does give a very nice ride, even though it is a little high for me to be totally comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>But I know a guy, a thoroughly dependable, sensible, nice guy, who is selling his<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6753\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6753\" title=\"yamaha_yzf_r1-2007-2008\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/\/yamaha_yzf_r1-2007-2008-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yamaha_yzf_r1-2007-2008-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yamaha_yzf_r1-2007-2008-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/yamaha_yzf_r1-2007-2008.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yamaha YZF-R1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And he isn&#8217;t asking too much for it.<\/p>\n<p>Tempting.<\/p>\n<p>Very, very, very tempting.<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday (February 19th), the Ace Cafe in that north London (North Circular Road, NW10) is hosting an <a title=\"Overland And Adventure Travel Bike Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ace-cafe-london.com\/event_view.aspx?event_id=50&amp;date=19\/02\/2012%2000:00:00\" target=\"_blank\">Overland And Adventure Travel Bike Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I might be there, in the guise of pretending to write stuff.<\/p>\n<p>If you fancy coming along (I do recommend the all-day vegetarian breakfast!), let me know.<\/p>\n<p>We could meet.<\/p>\n<p>Or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year when this man&#8217;s thoughts turn, inevitably, to&#8230; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; bikes! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am not, in brand terms,<\/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-6750","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\/6750","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=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}