{"id":686,"date":"2008-04-28T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T06:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=686"},"modified":"2010-03-20T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T06:46:30","slug":"you-meet-the-nicest-people-on-a-honda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2008\/04\/28\/you-meet-the-nicest-people-on-a-honda\/","title":{"rendered":"You Meet The Nicest People On A Honda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took Topanga Canyon over to PCH during my ride up to Camarillo yesterday, and along the way I came across a \u201cbiker\u201d broken down on the side of the road. \u201cBiker\u201d because he was on a scooter, but two wheels are two wheels so technically he\u2019s a biker. But whatever, the point is that I stopped to help him.<\/p>\n<p>His air filter was acting up\u2013 it was gone, actually; he\u2019d been using a crumpled-up napkin that either fell off or got eaten by the engine \u2014 and he was trying to jury-rig a fix for it with a piece of nylon stocking. I cut a few inches off one of the leather laces on my jacket so he could use it to tie the nylon in place, and then he was down the road again.<\/p>\n<p>I post this only to point out to <a href=\"http:\/\/redlegsrides.blogspot.com\/\">Dom<\/a> that both times I\u2019ve stopped recently it\u2019s been for Honda riders. That\u2019s gotta do something to offset my contributing to \u201cthe stream of stories of parts falling off Harleys,\u201d right?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2008\/04\/busted-honda1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2008\/04\/busted-honda1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Honda No Go\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Busted Honda<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lemme tell ya, that was one broke-ass Honda he was on.  I was surprised it ran at all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took Topanga Canyon over to PCH during my ride up to Camarillo yesterday, and along the way I came across a \u201cbiker\u201d broken down on the side of the road. \u201cBiker\u201d because he was on a scooter, but two wheels are two wheels so technically he\u2019s a biker. But whatever, the point is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}