{"id":3891,"date":"2013-04-04T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2013-04-03T21:59:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T03:59:16","slug":"i-want-a-scooter-i-want-a-dual-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/i-want-a-scooter-i-want-a-dual-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want a Scooter; I Want a Dual-sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3893\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Scooter-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3893\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Scooter-002.jpg\" vspace=\"10\" alt=\"Scooters at a traffic signal\" title=\"Scooter-002\" width=\"497\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3893\" srcset=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Scooter-002.jpg 497w, http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Scooter-002-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>They may not be macho but scooters are fun.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Man, why don&#8217;t I just have unlimited wealth so I can buy anything I want? I&#8217;ve talked a lot here about wanting a dual-sport bike but I think I&#8217;ve also mentioned that I want a scooter. <\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;m not some macho guy who wouldn&#8217;t be caught dead on a scooter. They&#8217;re fun and simple and I want one. I just want something I can hop on to run off to the grocery store or the post office or the bank&#8211;without having to put all this gear on and go through the hassle of rolling one of the bikes out.<\/p>\n<p>Sure I&#8217;d still put on a helmet but going out on one of my big motorcycles takes me 5-10 minutes getting ready, depending on the time of year. I want to just hop on and go.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m kind of jealous. Awhile ago Randy, one of the OFMC guys, let us all know he had come by a scooter for free. I don&#8217;t recall the details; something like an aunt won it in a raffle but had no use for it so she gave it to him.<\/p>\n<p>Now just the other day Charley asked me if I had a battery charger because Danielle, his girlfriend, had a scooter in her garage and they figured they&#8217;d see if they could get it started. It seems her old boyfriend left it behind when he moved out and doesn&#8217;t want it. Why doesn&#8217;t somebody give me a scooter?<\/p>\n<p>Well I am making money these days, what with this regular job and all, so I&#8217;m looking really hard at buying one. But I also want a dual-sport bike, and if I spend money on the scooter that&#8217;s money I won&#8217;t have for the dual-sport. Oh, these decisions.<\/p>\n<p>But, you know, what I&#8217;d really like is one of those electric scooters. Then the dirt cheap cost of operation goes almost to free and you&#8217;re not messing with gas and plugs and oil and all that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve been checking craigslist. Maybe some day soon I&#8217;ll have news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/tilting-motor-works-offers-a-fun-trike-conversion\" target=\"_blank\" >Tilting Motor Works offers a fun trike conversion<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Bah, anyone can drag their elbow on the pavement at 90 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, why don&#8217;t I just have unlimited wealth so I can buy anything I want? I&#8217;ve talked a lot here about wanting a dual-sport bike but I think I&#8217;ve also mentioned that I want a scooter. Hey, I&#8217;m not some macho guy who wouldn&#8217;t be caught dead on a scooter. They&#8217;re fun and simple and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scooter","tag-scooters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}