{"id":83067,"date":"2007-11-22T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T08:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=83067"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:02","slug":"sure-to-kill-written-as-certain-kill-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20071122\/everyday-events\/sure-to-kill-written-as-certain-kill-chapter","title":{"rendered":"Sure to Kill, Written as Certain Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_52219255_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It&#8217;s cold again today\u2014and the roads are packed.<br \/>\nTest rides are hard to come by. \u25a0<br \/>\nA well-tuned air-cooled four-cylinder feels great.<br \/>\nThe Z1000R from the other day\u2605\u2014I really felt that the stock setup has great balance.<br \/>\nBut what&#8217;s amazing is that the engine isn&#8217;t worn out.<br \/>\nUnstable idle, clutch chatter on takeoff, stalls if you don&#8217;t keep the throttle open\u2014that sort of thing.<br \/>\nBut the issues I notice really show up below 50% throttle opening, and up to that point it feels smooth and easy to ride!<br \/>\nThrottle play, downshift engagement, partial throttle in corners and the bite from there\u2014<br \/>\nI could go on forever, and it&#8217;s all personal preference anyway.<br \/>\nE4 done\u2014tomorrow I&#8217;ve got to run the maintenance campaign!<br \/>\nPokidam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;It&#8217;s cold again today\u2014and the roads are packed. Test rides are hard to come by. \u25a0 A well-tuned air-cooled four-cylinder feels great. The Z1000R from the other day\u2605\u2014I really felt that the stock setup has great balance. But what&#8217;s amazing is that the engine isn&#8217;t worn out. Unstable idle, clutch chatter on takeoff, stalls if you don&#8217;t keep the throttle open\u2014that sort of thing. But the issues I notice really show up below 50% throttle opening, and up to that point it feels smooth and easy to ride! Throttle play, downshift engagement, partial throttle in corners and the bite from there\u2014 I could go on forever, and it&#8217;s all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83066,"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-83067","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\/83067","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=83067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}