{"id":9406,"date":"2019-10-24T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=9406"},"modified":"2019-10-20T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:10:04","slug":"loving-indian-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/loving-indian-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Indian Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9407\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FallOwlCreekPass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9407\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FallOwlCreekPass.jpg\" vspace=\"10\" alt=\"motorcycle on Owl Creek Pass\" width=\"497\" height=\"351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FallOwlCreekPass.jpg 497w, https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FallOwlCreekPass-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>No better time than now to ride!<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had bitter cold weather and now the temps are back up in the high 70s and low 80s. It&#8217;s Indian Summer. This weather is literally the reason I live in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Back a long time ago I graduated from college and then set out on some serious traveling. In the course of that traveling I spent some time in Colorado. I didn&#8217;t fully understand it then but by chance I was here during Indian Summer, a time when the days are just glorious and being outside is being in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>When I decided I was really to stop and put down some roots I asked myself where I had been that I liked the best and the very easy answer was Denver. And here I am.<\/p>\n<p>Well folks, we&#8217;re in Indian Summer and it is just as awesome as it usually is, which is to say, to the max. I&#8217;ve been getting out on one bike or another as many days as I can and the riding is beyond wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>The days are starting out cool, so you have to layer up starting out in the morning, but by about noon you&#8217;ll be shedding layers. On Wednesday last week I knew it was going to be a very warm day but the morning was chilly so I put on my electric vest, a sweatshirt, and a leather jacket. I also wore my <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/my-new-riding-pants\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">riding pants<\/a> but zipped up the vents and wore long underwear underneath.<\/p>\n<p>And it was indeed chilly starting out, but long before noon I was unzipping vents in the pants and the jacket and at a stop I removed the sweatshirt altogether. I wish I had removed the vest, too, because a bit later than that I started to roast.<\/p>\n<p>But the ride! Ooooh, the ride! The air is just so sweet, the fall colors so gorgeous. And the weather just balmy.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I came to Colorado. It&#8217;s also a big part of why I stay. If you&#8217;re not out riding in this weather you&#8217;re missing some of the best riding of the entire year. What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Motorcycle fever has almost drove me insane &#8212; David Allan Coe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had bitter cold weather and now the temps are back up in the high 70s and low 80s. It&#8217;s Indian Summer. This weather is literally the reason I live in Colorado. Back a long time ago I graduated from college and then set out on some serious traveling. In the course of that traveling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[1026],"class_list":["post-9406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-motorcycle-rides","tag-motorcycle-riding-in-indian-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406","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=9406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9408,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406\/revisions\/9408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}