{"id":238,"date":"2007-09-02T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-09-02T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T17:02:48","slug":"green-but-not-with-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Green (but not with Envy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/980010763\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1416\/980010763_69b73df0fb.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am in lurve with my motorcycle. The one pictured here is my dream bike. The Triumph Bonneville T100, so if anyone is feeling particularly generous&#8230;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I got a ticket within 48 hours of owning the thing, but it is sooooo worth it. My permanent tags came in the mail and now I&#8217;m a legit, registered bad @ss!<\/p>\n<p>Reasons why I love my motorcycle:<\/p>\n<p>1. It&#8217;s HOT, I love the look on people&#8217;s faces when they realize I&#8217;m female! It&#8217;s always this surprise\/awe\/&#8221;that&#8217;s cool&#8221; look.<\/p>\n<p>2. It&#8217;s much better for the environment. I&#8217;ve filled the tank up twice and spent a total of $7 on gas in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>3. No jockeying for parking at the college. Motorcycle parking is FREE!! And I can park it right on the bike rack path. I have walked or rode my bike to work the two weeks I&#8217;ve been here. I have driven my car maybe 5 times.<\/p>\n<p>4. It pushes me to push my limits. I&#8217;m not an adrenaline junkie by any means, and zooming around gets my blood pumping and satisfies my &#8220;adventure&#8221; jones.<\/p>\n<p>5. It requires me to pay attention in a way I don&#8217;t when driving. You have to be seriously defensive-driving oriented on a motorcycle. I&#8217;m hyper aware and the biggest risk I take is riding in shorts.<\/p>\n<p>6. Other Riders. I love the motorcycle community. As I stated before, its like an underground club you become a part of and I love talking bikes with random people. There&#8217;s a professor at the college that has the EXACT same bike that I do, but his is a 1981 (mine is a 1980&#8211;and in MUCH better shape I might add). And we park 5 feet from each other every day. Several of the guys I work with have bikes and at least once a week we get into bike oriented conversations. These are people who on the surface I would probably have little in common with. But I enjoy their company and zeal for the sport\/hobby.<\/p>\n<p>7. Did I mention it&#8217;s just HOT? If I had a nickel for everyone who asked for a ride on my bike I could afford that T100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 I am in lurve with my motorcycle. The one pictured here is my dream bike. The Triumph Bonneville T100, so if anyone is feeling particularly generous&#8230;. I got a ticket within 48 hours of owning the thing, but it is sooooo worth it. My permanent tags came in the mail and now I&#8217;m a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green (but not with Envy)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}