{"id":80382,"date":"2009-02-02T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T08:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=80382"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:46","slug":"safe-return-to-the-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20090202\/everyday-events\/safe-return-to-the-shop","title":{"rendered":"Safe return to the shop \u2605"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went for the motorcycle inspection and stopped by the tester shop on the way.<br \/>\nIt was a headlight beam alignment \u2605 They adjusted the brightness, left-right, and up-down to perfect precision.<br \/>\nShinagawa is especially strict with headlight alignment, and sometimes we get a fail mark even when they&#8217;re set properly.<br \/>\nRound-type headlights sometimes don&#8217;t work out well either . . .<br \/>\nIf you get three fail marks, you can&#8217;t take the inspection that day.<br \/>\nIf even one fail mark comes up, I go talk directly to the inspector \u2605<br \/>\nAt the tester shop, the light output just wouldn&#8217;t come up, and it was right on the edge\u2014when we revved it up a bit more, it got darker . . .<br \/>\nSomething&#8217;s not right ~<br \/>\nIt makes a weird knocking sound at traffic lights sometimes.<br \/>\nSince it came to this, there&#8217;s nothing for it but to pass the inspection, get the valid stamp, and pick up the new inspection certificate . . .<br \/>\n&#8220;Jijijijiji&#8221;<br \/>\nThe cicadas are chirping . . .<br \/>\nWhat a nuisance. We got the new inspection certificate, so maybe I&#8217;ll do some push-starting ~<br \/>\nCompletely dead! Is it a regulator or generator problem?<br \/>\nI was at my wit&#8217;s end, so I called around ~<br \/>\nHandsome H. Kawasaki came to pick me up, and we got back at 5:30 PM.<br \/>\nWe were there for about two hours.<br \/>\nYum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went for the motorcycle inspection and stopped by the tester shop on the way. It was a headlight beam alignment \u2605 They adjusted the brightness, left-right, and up-down to perfect precision. Shinagawa is especially strict with headlight alignment, and sometimes we get a fail mark even when they&#8217;re set properly. Round-type headlights sometimes don&#8217;t work out well either . . . If you get three fail marks, you can&#8217;t take the inspection that day. If even one fail mark comes up, I go talk directly to the inspector \u2605 At the tester shop, the light output just wouldn&#8217;t come up, and it was right on the edge\u2014when we revved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-80382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80382","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=80382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}