{"id":2533,"date":"2009-08-02T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2009-08-02T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T23:31:10","slug":"motorcycle-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up possessed by the urge to ride, so I gassed up the Wing and headed to the top of Mt. Lemon, only a few miles from my home in NE Tucson, and blessedly, always 25-30\u00b0 cooler.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2532\" title=\"08-02-09_1a\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/08-02-09_1a.jpg\" alt=\"08-02-09_1a\" width=\"450\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/08-02-09_1a.jpg 450w, https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/08-02-09_1a-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The road to the top winds and curves for 26 miles, and today for some reason I had it almost all to myself, up and down.  Only a few slowpoke cars, and those pulled over to let me by.  I was comfortably swooping through the twisties 20-25 mph over posted speeds, thinking what hot stuff I was, when some chick on a Kawasaki Concours blew past me at 40 over.  But that was fine \u2014 I was enjoying the ride, and anyway, if you press a Wing too hard you just wind up scraping bottom and frightening yourself.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to the top, I found a place to park on the edge of a sea of sportbikes, had a cup of coffee at an outdoor cafe, and then, reluctantly, headed back down into the heat sink that is home.  But not before noting the reading on the cafe&#8217;s outdoor thermometer: 77\u00b0 F.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of morning that reminds you \u2014 as if you needed reminding \u2014 why you love motorcycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up possessed by the urge to ride, so I gassed up the Wing and headed to the top of Mt. Lemon, only a few miles from my home in NE Tucson, and blessedly, always 25-30\u00b0 cooler. The road to the top winds and curves for 26 miles, and today for some reason I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycling","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}