{"id":84913,"date":"2005-11-29T20:05:56","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T11:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84913"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:55","slug":"sometimes-old-bikes-are-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20051129\/everyday-events\/sometimes-old-bikes-are-nice","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Old Bikes Are Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_18535299_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It seems like fewer and fewer people ride old motorcycles these days.<br \/>\nThe ones who do ride them are young people of today, but I wonder if that&#8217;s really okay\u2014some of those bikes are so beat up, and yet<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re riding them at pretty good speeds with bare hands. They must have never had an accident.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s this strange reality: why are people who don&#8217;t live in real-time so fascinated by these old machines?<br \/>\nI guess the design, color scheme, sound, and vibration satisfy them.<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;m not against it, but bare hands are dangerous! And half helmets are dangerous too!<br \/>\nEven among people who own motorcycles, preferences split pretty sharply.<br \/>\nNew-bike fans, touring riders, circuit racers, mountain-pass riders, custom builders, maintenance enthusiasts, same-model devotees, and so on.<br \/>\nSurprisingly, they don&#8217;t see eye to eye, and watching that from the sidelines, I think &#8220;heh heh&#8221; and get back to work.<br \/>\nNext year I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll get a GS1000S inspected and ride it. The GS is slow though, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;It seems like fewer and fewer people ride old motorcycles these days. The ones who do ride them are young people of today, but I wonder if that&#8217;s really okay\u2014some of those bikes are so beat up, and yet they&#8217;re riding them at pretty good speeds with bare hands. They must have never had an accident. It&#8217;s this strange reality: why are people who don&#8217;t live in real-time so fascinated by these old machines? I guess the design, color scheme, sound, and vibration satisfy them. So I&#8217;m not against it, but bare hands are dangerous! And half helmets are dangerous too! Even among people who own motorcycles, preferences split [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84912,"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-84913","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\/84913","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=84913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}