{"id":84916,"date":"2005-11-28T18:31:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84916"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:56","slug":"getting-dark-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20051128\/everyday-events\/getting-dark-early","title":{"rendered":"Getting Dark Early\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_18413500_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It really does get dark early these days. Once it passes 5 o&#8217;clock, it&#8217;s already pitch black! It makes the day feel so short.<br \/>\nThe other day I had the chance to test ride an SS with front and rear \u00d6hlins installed (it was for a feature in a certain magazine).<br \/>\nThe feel was completely different from our naked bikes. How do I put it\u2014it had this amazing &#8220;gradual&#8221; sensation to it.<br \/>\n\u2191 I don&#8217;t get it<br \/>\nIt really is set up for hard braking and high load handling! It felt circuit-oriented. With this kind of setup, no matter how<br \/>\nstrong a brake system you bolt on, the fork just won&#8217;t give up.<br \/>\nBasically, when I test ride, I go full throttle and then immediately full brake to constantly check how the brakes feel and how much the suspension compresses.<br \/>\nThe input feel was something I&#8217;d never experienced before, and I really liked it. Even when I grabbed the brakes hard,<br \/>\nthe front dives in linearly. This is cutting-edge technology!<br \/>\nToday was supposed to be my day off, but it turned into a complicated day where I had to be here even though I wasn&#8217;t actually working\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;It really does get dark early these days. Once it passes 5 o&#8217;clock, it&#8217;s already pitch black! It makes the day feel so short. The other day I had the chance to test ride an SS with front and rear \u00d6hlins installed (it was for a feature in a certain magazine). The feel was completely different from our naked bikes. How do I put it\u2014it had this amazing &#8220;gradual&#8221; sensation to it. \u2191 I don&#8217;t get it It really is set up for hard braking and high load handling! It felt circuit-oriented. With this kind of setup, no matter how strong a brake system you bolt on, the fork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84915,"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-84916","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\/84916","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=84916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}