{"id":64,"date":"2008-06-29T18:47:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T22:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2008-11-10T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T00:33:05","slug":"sit-your-ass-on-some-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/29\/sit-your-ass-on-some-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit your ass on some class…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK… So I said I\u2019d let you know what was going on, and here it is. I was waiting to post anything about it here until after my son arrived for the year – I wanted it to be a surprise; and it was.<\/p>\n

The big secret is my new 2008 Harley-Davidson Sportster Custom. What a beautiful machine! I take it in for it\u2019s first 1000 mile service tomorrow. You see it chained to my Firebird above. I bought it from Barnett Harley-Davidson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You know, I live less than two miles from where I work. Driving the Firebird to work, then back home for lunch, then back to work after lunch, and then finally back home just seems like a waste with gas hovering at $4 per gallon. I never thought I\u2019d get another motorcycle, but that kind of got me thinking. I could get a bike and get 50 MPG as opposed to my current 20-25 MPG. I\u2019d fill up every 2 weeks for $10-12 instead of every 2 weeks at $30-40.<\/p>\n

So I started checking out the bikes. My last one was a 1985 Kawasaki Vulcan. Nice bike, but it made me think of things I would rather have next time; like a belt drive and choke-less fuel injection. I\u2019m a cruiser guy, I\u2019ve rode crotch rockets and I\u2019d rather sit on a cruiser any day. Once I started adding everything I wanted on my bike (namely the bigger motor, belt drive, and fuel injection) the price came within a few grand of a Harley-Davidson Sportster. So I opted for the Harley.<\/p>\n

The local HOG Chapter rides every Sunday to different locations. I\u2019ve ridden on a few road trips with them. One was to Cloudcroft and Ruidoso, New Mexico. It\u2019s been pretty fun, and now you can see what\u2019s been eating up my time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK… So I said I\u2019d let you know what was going on, and here it is. I was waiting to post anything about it here until after my son arrived for the year – I wanted it to be a surprise; and it was. The big secret is my new 2008 Harley-Davidson Sportster Custom. What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[178,30],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iweb-import-07-08","tag-harley-davidson","tag-hog-chapter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}