{"id":3030,"date":"2009-10-26T21:28:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T11:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2009-10-26T21:28:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T11:28:56","slug":"had-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"Had to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you use a 250kg sports bike as a dirt bike.<\/p>\n<p>Riding along minding my own business (mainly &#8217;cause there is only me) when the road opened up (friggen&#8217; mud under the top crust) and tried to swallow my poor little &#8216;Bird.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3031\" title=\"Down1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down1-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Down1\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down1-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arse over head and came down with a big thud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3032\" title=\"Down2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down2-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Down2\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down2-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever tried to lift one of these things upright while sliding around in the mud that brought it down?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3033\" title=\"Down3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down3-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"Down3\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down3-420x315.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Down3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Came down real hard on my shoulder and the bike landed on my thigh so I am a bit sore, hand got jammed under the bar end and I leaked the usual amount of claret.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bird is pretty knocked around, scratched and bent down the fairings and mountings, right hand mirror is smashed and the housing hosed, rear blinker bent but I picked the bike up, hit the go button and away it went.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/escape1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3034\" title=\"escape1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/escape1-315x420.jpg\" alt=\"escape1\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/escape1-315x420.jpg 315w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/escape1-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/escape1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My efforts to get the bike out and, as you can tell, there was not a lot of help around. The mud was just under the crust, got me a beauty. Where&#8217;s a KLR when you need one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you use a 250kg sports bike as a dirt bike. Riding along minding my own business (mainly &#8217;cause there is only me) when the road opened up (friggen&#8217; mud under the top crust) and tried to swallow my poor little &#8216;Bird. Arse over head and came down with a big [&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-3030","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\/3030","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=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nige.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}