{"id":32,"date":"2009-05-08T02:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2024-05-03T19:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:43:59","slug":"quite-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/quite-a-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Quite A Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33\" title=\"dscn0411\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dscn0411-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dscn0411\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dscn0411-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dscn0411-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dscn0411.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today was significant for me.\u00a0 Today I watched my pride and joy drive away on the back of a 63 year old man&#8217;s flatbed truck.\u00a0 I finally sold my Custom Chopper that I bought brand new back in 2005.\u00a0 I paid 32,000.00 for this Easter Egg of a bike and sold it for 15,000.00 4 years later.\u00a0 Quite a hit, but I had quite a ride.<\/p>\n<p>I had alot of great memories on my chopper.\u00a0 I rode alone most of the time starting out, but would end up riding with a bunch by the middle of the day.\u00a0 I rode with different motorcycle clubs including the Booze-fighters and some others.\u00a0 Not as a member but as a &#8220;Free Rider&#8221;.\u00a0 This means you ride but you don&#8217;t belong to a club.\u00a0 I also attended Myrtle Beach Bike week for 4 years in a row.<\/p>\n<p>But it was time to sell the bike.\u00a0 With 12,000 miles of memories, I think I got out cheap.\u00a0 I did crash the bike once and went down hard, fracturing my right arm and a cracked skull and some shattered teeth.\u00a0 I had to get 8 pins in my arm and a metal wrap.\u00a0 My brain showed 8 &#8220;bleeders&#8221;.\u00a0 I ended up getting 4 root canals.\u00a0\u00a0 I also cracked my right eye socket.<\/p>\n<p>But I have no regrets and will ride again.\u00a0 As a matter of fact I will be buying a new 2010 Harley Davidson Road King in October of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Good time had, and Good times till ahead !<\/p>\n<p>Ride On!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was significant for me.\u00a0 Today I watched my pride and joy drive away on the back of a 63 year old man&#8217;s flatbed truck.\u00a0 I finally sold my Custom Chopper that I bought brand new back in 2005.\u00a0 I paid 32,000.00 for this Easter Egg of a bike and sold it for 15,000.00 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}