{"id":98,"date":"2007-10-18T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelonelyrider.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-10-18T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T23:29:00","slug":"talk-about-an-over-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/talk-about-an-over-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about an over-haul!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 5hrs of effort, 4 spark plugs, a litre of oil, one chain, 2 sprockets, valve adjustments, and a few other essentials&#8230;it was NOT priceless. It was however necessary and could still make for a good MasterCard commercial. <\/p>\n<p>Motorcycles are expensive, not only to insure but also to maintain. It is a fact of life for every rider and needs to be done at regular intervals. Having a bike in a poor state of repair has far greater safety implications when compared to a car. Drive-train failure on a car simply means rolling to a stop. Whereas on a bike, a broken chain could snag in the rear wheel causing it to lock up followed by a nasty fall. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not here to preach, just offering up a little advice. I would personally hate to be a speed bump because something on my bike broke as a result of poor maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 5hrs of effort, 4 spark plugs, a litre of oil, one chain, 2 sprockets, valve adjustments, and a few other essentials&#8230;it was NOT priceless. It was however necessary and could still make for a good MasterCard commercial. Motorcycles are expensive, not only to insure but also to maintain. It is a fact of life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[60],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedVzR-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaundejager.com\/road-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}