{"id":609,"date":"2010-03-31T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T02:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=609"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:03:26","slug":"lets-try-this-again-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/lets-try-this-again-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lets try this again&#8230; [part 3]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the final few parts arrived: the most important being the front wheel bearings. Greased everything up, tapped the new bearings in, then went downstairs to put everything back together.<\/p>\n<p>First got the biked pulled out from the wall and on the stand:<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/pre_2010_season_1.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"Getting ready for the 2010 season: putting the front end back on:\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=609\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/pre_2010_season_1.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/thumbs\/thumbs_pre_2010_season_1.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"492\"\n             data-title=\"pre_2010_season_1\"\n             data-description=\"Getting ready for the 2010 season: putting the front end back on:\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=609\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_e7d1cc2599fb38b443a8d40b64695436\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/cache\/pre_2010_season_1.jpg-nggid03492-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"pre_2010_season_1\"\n             title=\"pre_2010_season_1\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;then added the forks, guards, and calipers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/pre_2010_season_2.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"Getting ready for the 2010 season: putting the forks back on:\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=609\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/pre_2010_season_2.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/thumbs\/thumbs_pre_2010_season_2.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"493\"\n             data-title=\"pre_2010_season_2\"\n             data-description=\"Getting ready for the 2010 season: putting the forks back on:\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=609\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_650984c5f91296108133ab42a904d7aa\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/cache\/pre_2010_season_2.jpg-nggid03493-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"pre_2010_season_2\"\n             title=\"pre_2010_season_2\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and finally the new front tire. And it started!<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/pre_2010_season_3.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"Getting ready for the 2010 season: got the new tire on, and it started right up! :)\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=609\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/pre_2010_season_3.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/thumbs\/thumbs_pre_2010_season_3.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"494\"\n             data-title=\"pre_2010_season_3\"\n             data-description=\"Getting ready for the 2010 season: got the new tire on, and it started right up! :)\n\nhttp:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=609\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_ad81de4391991091670e480e8dc26187\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/cache\/pre_2010_season_3.jpg-nggid03494-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"pre_2010_season_3\"\n             title=\"pre_2010_season_3\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center><\/p>\n<p>I took it for a short ride to the gas station to top off the tank with fresh gas then parked it again. The battery is weak (it was full, but I used it with a 12v air compressor to pump up the tires when I put new rubber on)&#8230; but I&#8217;m hoping after one longer ride it will top back up again.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a ride this weekend? We&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the final few parts arrived: the most important being the front wheel bearings. Greased everything up, tapped the new bearings in, then went downstairs to put everything back together. First got the biked pulled out from the wall and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/lets-try-this-again-part-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Lets try this again&#8230; [part 3]<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-9P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}