{"id":84544,"date":"2006-08-20T00:42:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84544"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:58","slug":"sparkling-bomber-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20060820\/everyday-events\/sparkling-bomber-episode","title":{"rendered":"Sparkling Bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A title like this? Might as well just wing it.<br \/>\nI could&#8217;ve twisted my brain trying to come up with something clever, but what&#8217;s the point?<br \/>\nFinally got MJ&#8217;s bike done\u2014feels like a good stopping point. But you know how it is; finish one and you&#8217;re already itching to start the next.<br \/>\nThe boss&#8217;s 1200 SS engine is sitting around too, so I&#8217;ll tear into that when I get a spare moment.<br \/>\nMine&#8217;s going to get an R1100 engine swap\u2014that&#8217;s the plan.<br \/>\nChain&#8217;s obviously Yoshimura, pistons are stock oversized and honed, carburettor stays stock!<br \/>\nKeeping costs down\u2014budget build all the way! Fresh bearings for the transmission, then it&#8217;s just a matter of matching the metal.<br \/>\nGotta do it right, get the head sorted with a proper seat cut, match the valve lengths, and\u2014ugh, this is getting complicated.<br \/>\nWhen am I actually going to do all this?<br \/>\nHa! But it&#8217;s nice to have the headspace to think about this stuff. Hope things don&#8217;t get crazy again before September 3rd\u2026<br \/>\nPlus there&#8217;s all the work that piled up over Obon. Yikes.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d love to get out to Fuji\u2014haven&#8217;t ridden in forever, haven&#8217;t checked out that weird bike glitch, and I haven&#8217;t played mahjong in ages.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s scorching out there!<br \/>\nAh, whatever.<br \/>\nPeace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A title like this? Might as well just wing it. I could&#8217;ve twisted my brain trying to come up with something clever, but what&#8217;s the point? Finally got MJ&#8217;s bike done\u2014feels like a good stopping point. But you know how it is; finish one and you&#8217;re already itching to start the next. The boss&#8217;s 1200 SS engine is sitting around too, so I&#8217;ll tear into that when I get a spare moment. Mine&#8217;s going to get an R1100 engine swap\u2014that&#8217;s the plan. Chain&#8217;s obviously Yoshimura, pistons are stock oversized and honed, carburettor stays stock! Keeping costs down\u2014budget build all the way! Fresh bearings for the transmission, then it&#8217;s just a [&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-84544","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\/84544","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=84544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}