{"id":74496,"date":"2011-03-25T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=74496"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:42:50","slug":"walk-in-single-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20110325\/everyday-events\/walk-in-single-episode","title":{"rendered":"Walk-In Single Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hardly ever get walk-in customers at our shop throughout the year.<br \/>\nWhen they do come, it&#8217;s usually because of trouble.<br \/>\nThe cause is always no maintenance.<br \/>\nThe phone rang first thing in the morning.<br \/>\n&#8220;My bike broke down,&#8221; they said.<br \/>\nWhen I asked what bike it was, they said &#8220;An SR400.&#8221;<br \/>\nSR400s and TW225s and bikes like that are really sketchy, so I kind of wanted to turn them down.<br \/>\nBut the person was so humble in the way they spoke that I decided to take it on. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62289257_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>This here <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62289257_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Why? How does it break in a spot like this? <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62289257_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The shaft is all rusty and won&#8217;t come out. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_62289257_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>And there&#8217;s no muffler on it.<br \/>\nSteering is super heavy! \u2190 Loose adjustment<br \/>\nFront brake doesn&#8217;t work at all (fluid was empty) \u2190 Topped off and bled<br \/>\nThe rear axle nut turns by hand.<br \/>\nThe broken chain guide got sheet metal work and welded back together\u2014done.<br \/>\nRiding this thing takes special skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hardly ever get walk-in customers at our shop throughout the year. When they do come, it&#8217;s usually because of trouble. The cause is always no maintenance. The phone rang first thing in the morning. &#8220;My bike broke down,&#8221; they said. When I asked what bike it was, they said &#8220;An SR400.&#8221; SR400s and TW225s and bikes like that are really sketchy, so I kind of wanted to turn them down. But the person was so humble in the way they spoke that I decided to take it on. &nbsp; &nbsp;This here &nbsp; &nbsp;Why? How does it break in a spot like this? &nbsp; &nbsp;The shaft is all rusty and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55,127],"class_list":["post-74496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog","tag-srsrx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}