{"id":83580,"date":"2007-07-24T21:31:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T12:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=83580"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:05","slug":"8-hour-endurance-and-asakawa-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20070724\/everyday-events\/8-hour-endurance-and-asakawa-speed","title":{"rendered":"The 8-hour endurance race and Asakawa Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_50026547_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_50026547_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_50026547_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_50026547_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_50026547_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_50026547_5.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Today was clear skies, so I got the sudden urge to ride a bike, and since I had some errands to run, I called Asakawa and<br \/>\nwent to visit him\u2605<br \/>\nThere it was\u2014the nostalgic GSX-R1000!<br \/>\nWas it just a coincidence, or was I meant to be there?\u2605<br \/>\nWell, it was well-maintained and looking great.<br \/>\nThe engine fired right up and had a really nice engine note!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s supposed to run the Suzuka Circuit in this year&#8217;s 8-hour endurance race<br \/>\n\u2605<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s quite something! Exciting stuff! (Though I&#8217;m not going to the 8-hour race)<br \/>\nAnd while I was at it, I snapped a photo of the Bonneville out back\u2605<br \/>\nI ended up riding it even though he said not to!<br \/>\nAs for how loud it is now&#8230;<br \/>\nAbout like a two-valve Z?<br \/>\nYou can think of it that way\u25ce<br \/>\nIf we brought it down a bit more, wouldn&#8217;t that be perfect?<br \/>\nPokidam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Today was clear skies, so I got the sudden urge to ride a bike, and since I had some errands to run, I called Asakawa and went to visit him\u2605 There it was\u2014the nostalgic GSX-R1000! Was it just a coincidence, or was I meant to be there?\u2605 Well, it was well-maintained and looking great. The engine fired right up and had a really nice engine note! It&#8217;s supposed to run the Suzuka Circuit in this year&#8217;s 8-hour endurance race \u2605 That&#8217;s quite something! Exciting stuff! (Though I&#8217;m not going to the 8-hour race) And while I was at it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[100,90,55],"class_list":["post-83580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-asakawa-speed","tag-gr71","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83580","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=83580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}