{"id":2944,"date":"2009-09-18T21:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T11:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2009-09-18T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T11:54:34","slug":"alice-springs-day-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"Alice Springs Day 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took the &#8216;Bird around to Desert Edge Honda and had a chat with the very helpful service manager who even knew what a Michelin was \ud83d\ude42 but recommended I try Bridgestone Battlax BT 021 as they may be a bit longer wearing for my type of riding. Anyway, they had them in stock and so $670 later, they were fitted. The &#8216;Bird ticked over 70,000kms today to celebrate the new shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Big day on the card, bought the tyres and then chased around town to buy a new tent and airbed, hopefully the newies will perform better.<\/p>\n<p>Put my tourist hat back on reluctantly and went up a hill to see what I could see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2947\" title=\"View1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View11-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"View1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View11-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View11.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2948\" title=\"View2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View2-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"View2\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View2-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/View2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Followed a few of those &#8216;Brown&#8217; signs and one lead me to &#8216;Alice Springs Desert Park&#8217; where the lady took a lobster from me and away I went&#8230;&#8230;.fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/park1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2949\" title=\"park1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/park1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"park1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/park1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/park1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/park1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took the &#8216;Bird around to Desert Edge Honda and had a chat with the very helpful service manager who even knew what a Michelin was \ud83d\ude42 but recommended I try Bridgestone Battlax BT 021 as they may be a bit longer wearing for my type of riding. Anyway, they had them in stock and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}