{"id":602,"date":"2010-03-04T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T02:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=602"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T02:08:55","slug":"lets-try-this-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/lets-try-this-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lets try this again…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend BJ let me know the 2010 Bethany Dual-Sport ride<\/a> was coming up soon. We were one month from the ride date, so if our bikes were still winterized we better do what we had to to get them on the road!<\/p>\n

I “attended” the 2009 version of this ride. Notice I didn’t say I “rode” at that event. Well I did ride. For a few minutes. Then had a few hours to contemplate the mysteries of the universe<\/a>. (but I did get out in the end<\/a>). So I’m ready for a rematch! I just need minor maintenance on the bike… you know… tighten the chain, a little WD40 squirted here and there… the usual…<\/p>\n

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Well, maybe I had bigger plans. First, clean+lube the rear suspension, then try to balance and remount the rear wheel:<\/p>\n

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By next weekend I should have also received some fork oil in the mail: and I can rip off the front end and get it sorted as well!<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping it all goes back together without extra screws left over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend BJ let me know the 2010 Bethany Dual-Sport ride was coming up soon. We were one month from the ride date, so if our bikes were still winterized we better do what we had to to get them Continue reading Lets try this again…<\/span>→<\/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-9I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602"}],"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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}