{"id":463,"date":"2006-04-30T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2006-04-30T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T18:00:35","slug":"motorbike_and_allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/motorbike_and_allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorbike and Allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I will admit that I&#8217;ve been remiss in taking &#8220;pictures&#8221; for this blog.  Mostly because I have to hang around SF during my peak travel season (the shoulder season before peak summer travel time).  But I&#8217;ve a good reason, lah!!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m getting to know my new used bike.  Its a naked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gstwin.com\/\">Suzuki GS500<\/a> (yes, I&#8217;ll put a picture up when I remember to take one).  It&#8217;s naked because it has no windscreen or fairing, which means riding it at speeds over 55 MPH (88kph) is an adventure in &#8220;gripping the handlebars tightly&#8221;.<br \/>\nToday was the first day of sun-shiney weather that we&#8217;ve had out here in a while.  It seems that the deluge that we&#8217;ve gone through here (AKA the rainy season) has abated, thus leaving lots of weeds and horny plants about.  In other words, it&#8217;s now hay fever season.<br \/>\n<em>Atchoo<\/em>!  I mean, <em>bleagh<\/em>!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m get allergies in the springtime and whenever there&#8217;s a cat around.  So this is not a good time for me to be here.  Usually, I&#8217;m in Asia this time of the year, but am hanging around for the possibility of a straight gig.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll hear something one way or the other soon&#8230;<br \/>\nBut back to the ride.  The best way to learn riding is &#8220;saddle time&#8221;.  Go out and ride.  So I rode.  Across the Golden Gate Bridge, along US 101 to San Rafael.  Stopped off at a Borders and got a book and some coffee.  Enjoyed the sunshine.  Then rode back on US 101, making a detour to Muir Beach, stopping there and then rode home via Sausalito.<br \/>\nWait, I DID take a picture!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/smug.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/smug.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/smug-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNotice that layer of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickcatalano.com\/2006\/03\/30\/south-park-smug-hybrid-cars\/\">smug<\/a>&#8221; over San Francisco.  Looks like a 2nd stage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2006\/03\/30\/south-park-smug-alert\/\">smug alert!<\/a>  Yeeeech!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I will admit that I&#8217;ve been remiss in taking &#8220;pictures&#8221; for this blog. Mostly because I have to hang around SF during my peak travel season (the shoulder season before peak summer travel time). But I&#8217;ve a good reason, lah!! I&#8217;m getting to know my new used bike. Its a naked Suzuki GS500 (yes, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/motorbike_and_allergies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motorbike and Allergies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-motorcycle-log"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-7t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}