{"id":82409,"date":"2008-04-05T20:26:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T11:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=82409"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:23","slug":"luxurious-cottes-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20080405\/everyday-events\/luxurious-cottes-chapter","title":{"rendered":"Luxurious Cottes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_54395578_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_54395578_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Change the sprocket next time, so&#8230; the lesson: &#8220;Don&#8217;t put off until tomorrow what you can do today!&#8221;<br \/>\nGot it done right away.<br \/>\nA woman on a Peugeot came by, and even though I was in shutdown mode, I gave it a quick look anyway.<br \/>\nIt was just a burned-out bulb, so I told her to have another bike shop take a look.<br \/>\nThe Vespa shop next door happened to be open, so they picked up a bulb and I swapped it in for her.<br \/>\nOf course, no charge. She said, &#8220;Thanks again.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an unfamiliar bike anyway, so bear with me if there&#8217;s anything else.<br \/>\nEven though it&#8217;s stored indoors, I drape a towel over it. Dust builds up otherwise.<br \/>\nI hate dirt.<br \/>\nAn old, dirty towel seems like it would just make things dirtier anyway.<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s just a plain black towel.<br \/>\nIt was so warm I took it for a spin and ran out of gas\u2014barely made it back to the stand.<br \/>\nI ride all kinds of GSF bikes, but mine is the easiest to ride.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m keeping it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Change the sprocket next time, so&#8230; the lesson: &#8220;Don&#8217;t put off until tomorrow what you can do today!&#8221; Got it done right away. A woman on a Peugeot came by, and even though I was in shutdown mode, I gave it a quick look anyway. It was just a burned-out bulb, so I told her to have another bike shop take a look. The Vespa shop next door happened to be open, so they picked up a bulb and I swapped it in for her. Of course, no charge. She said, &#8220;Thanks again.&#8221; It&#8217;s an unfamiliar bike anyway, so bear with me if there&#8217;s anything else. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82408,"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-82409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82409","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=82409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}