{"id":202,"date":"2008-08-31T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=202"},"modified":"2009-03-29T10:13:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T17:13:54","slug":"tired-of-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/tired-of-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired of tires&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it took me 5 hours to change 2 tires: 1.5 hours for the front and 3.5 for the back. That rear tire just didn&#8217;t want to come off the rim&#8230; nor did the new one want to go back on. I guess it was a learning experience: I definitely found more than one wrong way of doing things. But now I know the toolkit I carry has everything I need for the job, and I have a better idea of what to do if I get a flat in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>But now that I&#8217;ve done it once myself: from now on I&#8217;m paying for a shop to swap them \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Went for a short ride to scrub them up a little and took a pic of the final package: ready to go for some dualsport rides!<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 256px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/n701895367_4019020_7498.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"Bike #3: Read to roll... new rack and off-road tires...\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/n701895367_4019020_7498.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/thumbs\/thumbs_n701895367_4019020_7498.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"13\"\n             data-title=\"n701895367_4019020_7498.jpg\"\n             data-description=\"Bike #3: Read to roll... new rack and off-road tires...\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_05d32f8778436a5b5e9a080a9e8873d5\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/cache\/n701895367_4019020_7498.jpg-nggid0213-ngg0dyn-0x192x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"n701895367_4019020_7498.jpg\"\n             title=\"n701895367_4019020_7498.jpg\"\n              width=\"256\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday it took me 5 hours to change 2 tires: 1.5 hours for the front and 3.5 for the back. That rear tire just didn&#8217;t want to come off the rim&#8230; nor did the new one want to go back <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/tired-of-tires\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Tired of tires&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-3g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}