{"id":85011,"date":"2005-08-30T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T07:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=85011"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:56","slug":"is-old-really-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20050830\/everyday-events\/is-old-really-good","title":{"rendered":"Is Old Really Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_10284103_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Today we had a simple interview with a separate edition of MC about what the GSX-R is\u2026<br \/>\nPersonally, I&#8217;ve only owned a GSX-R once, and it&#8217;s still sitting there non-running without any restoration.<br \/>\nSelling it off in pieces! That&#8217;s the kind of person answering here.<br \/>\nThe GSX-R&#8217;s history goes back 20 years to 1985 when the 750 was released, so the oil-cooled model has been around for 20 years\u2026<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why it&#8217;s being featured these days as a kind of anniversary\u2026<br \/>\nAnd in the conversation, we got excited talking about what&#8217;s really good about old motorcycles?<br \/>\n1. Status<br \/>\n2. The satisfaction of ownership<br \/>\n3. Aspiration<br \/>\n4. The sense of accomplishment from fixing and nurturing it<br \/>\nAnd so on\u2026 In the end, it&#8217;s all just self-satisfaction.<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t ridden my GS1000S in a while\u2014it&#8217;s been sitting for a solid four years now\u2026<br \/>\nMaybe I should get the inspection done sometime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Today we had a simple interview with a separate edition of MC about what the GSX-R is\u2026 Personally, I&#8217;ve only owned a GSX-R once, and it&#8217;s still sitting there non-running without any restoration. Selling it off in pieces! That&#8217;s the kind of person answering here. The GSX-R&#8217;s history goes back 20 years to 1985 when the 750 was released, so the oil-cooled model has been around for 20 years\u2026 That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s being featured these days as a kind of anniversary\u2026 And in the conversation, we got excited talking about what&#8217;s really good about old motorcycles? 1. Status 2. The satisfaction of ownership 3. Aspiration 4. The sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[78,55],"class_list":["post-85011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-cb750k","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011","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=85011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}