{"id":3101,"date":"2011-05-13T20:07:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2011-05-13T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T02:07:11","slug":"preparations-for-departure-mostly-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3101","title":{"rendered":"Preparations for Departure Mostly Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent all of today and yesterday wrenching on Yoshiko. She now has new tires, a new chain, new spark plugs. Her timing, points, cam chain, valve tappets and brakes are freshly adjusted. She’s got new stock-sized jets so she can handle all that high-pressure sea-level air. I loaded her up this evening to see how packing would work, especially since I never found a luggage rack that worked:<\/p>\n

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I feel a bit like I’ve been run over by a truck since I’ve been crawling around on the concrete. But it feels good, and I’m confident that I’ve done everything I can do to make this trip go smoothly. Short of taking a 737, anyway.<\/p>\n

I took a short test-ride, and everything felt great, especially the new tires and chain. It’s a lot more stable at speed now–not that I thought it felt bad, but there’s a noticeable improvement now that I didn’t know was needed or possible.<\/p>\n

I’m cooking German food for Neal tomorrow evening, and I’m thinking I’ll leave Sunday, but probably not early. I wanted to spend the day with Jonah, but the extra day on the road is probably good insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent all of today and yesterday wrenching on Yoshiko. She now has new tires, a new chain, new spark plugs. Her timing, points, cam chain, valve tappets and brakes are freshly adjusted. She’s got new stock-sized jets so she can handle all that high-pressure sea-level air. I loaded her up this evening to see…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3105,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}