{"id":6342,"date":"2014-01-02T05:16:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T10:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2014-01-02T07:41:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T12:41:59","slug":"riding-on-january-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6342","title":{"rendered":"Riding on January 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of January dawned cold, too cold, I thought, to try to make arrangements to meet my motorcycle club for its annual “polar bear” motorcycle ride. Plus, I wanted to have a leisurely breakfast with my spouse, my brother, and my sister-in-law on my last day of holiday break.<\/p>\n

But it was a bothersome thing in the back of my mind, “you don’t get many days in winter where it is sunny and tolerable for riding.”<\/p>\n

However, I promised some senior pals to do some home repairs that I was not able to do earlier during my holiday break as I needed to spend time caring for my spouse. Now with my brother here and available to help my spouse should he need anything, I went to my 3 friends’ homes and dispatched the repairs quickly. <\/p>\n

By early afternoon, it warmed up to a balmy 43F (6C) and I was done with my promised work for my senior pals. So what did I do?
\n
\nI pulled on my leathers, new Dehner Boots<\/a>, and rolled out my Harley. I went over it thoroughly as I usually do before I ride. The tire pressure was low — not a surprise because the bike had not been ridden in a while. I put air in the tires, then took off.
\n\"Roadking75\"I did not ride far or long. The point was to get out and ride because I could and because one makes a point if he can ride on January 1 in a climate that has cold winters. I also have a fellow rider up north — he knows who he is — who goes cruising in the Caribbean because he has to put his Harley into storage. I remind him from time to time that I ride all year — when I can. (LOL, S!)<\/p>\n

Life is short: Ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first of January dawned cold, too cold, I thought, to try to make arrangements to meet my motorcycle club for its annual “polar bear” motorcycle ride. Plus, I wanted to have a leisurely breakfast with my spouse, my brother, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dehner-boots","category-motorcycle-ride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}