{"id":12566,"date":"2025-01-23T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:15:38","slug":"biker-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/biker-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"Biker Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the stuff I’ve accumulated and I don’t even care for this kind of stuff.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

You’ve seen them, I know. The guys with leather vests and jackets festooned with pins and patches. Biker paraphernalia. Some guys just love that stuff.<\/p>\n

To each his own, I guess. I’m not that kind of guy. But I am a biker, so this stuff inevitably comes my way nevertheless.<\/p>\n

That photo above is all the stuff I could find to pull out and display. There’s an AMA Life Member patch, an ABATE of Colorado District 10 (defunct) patch, a Ride with the 40 patch from when that crew came through some years ago, and an OFMC<\/a> patch. I do actually have an OFMC patch on one of my leather jackets. That’s the only patch I have on anything.<\/p>\n

Of course there are the brass nuts from attending ABATE’s Last Brass Monkey Run each December 31. I only found six but I’m sure I have more somewhere.<\/p>\n

Then there are the pins. Time was when every year I would receive a pin each from ABATE and the AMA tallying my years of membership. Finally people got wise at both organizations and asked “Do you wish to receive a pin each year?” I said no. Great idea. Save yourselves money and save me accumulating junk I don’t want.<\/p>\n

Some people really get into this stuff, I know. That’s great. For you. I’ll pass, thanks.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

Weekend forecast: Motorcycling with no chance of house cleaning or cooking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve seen them, I know. The guys with leather vests and jackets festooned with pins and patches. Biker paraphernalia. Some guys just love that stuff. To each his own, I guess. I’m not that kind of guy. But I am a biker, so this stuff inevitably comes my way nevertheless. That photo above is all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,33,439,2],"tags":[1469,1470],"class_list":["post-12566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abate","category-american-motorcyclist-association","category-motorcycle-clubs","category-gear","tag-motorcycle-patches","tag-motorcycle-pins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12568,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions\/12568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}