{"id":358,"date":"2008-06-14T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T00:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/358"},"modified":"2008-06-14T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T00:16:44","slug":"greasebag-jamboree-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/358","title":{"rendered":"Greasebag Jamboree 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the rhythm of the seasons&#8230; Just as October brings foliage to New Hampshire, so June brings us Bike Week. Bike Week has gotten a lot bigger and a lot less 1% since I&#8217;ve been in NH &#8211; the local tourism officials have figured out there&#8217;s serious coin available for extraction.<\/p>\n<p>A Certain Design Student has been keeping his eyes  open for a motorcycle. A single, a parallel twin or a parallel trip, displacement in the 500cc &#8211; 650cc range &#8211; something with some character or something that could be modified. His nosing around led him to a get-together &#8211; the Greasebag Jamboree &#8211; not the bog-standard full dress HD stuff; instead, Triumphs, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobber_%28motorcycle%29\">bobbers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BSA_motorcycle#Motorcycles\">Beezers<\/a>. Today was the day &#8211; off we went!<\/p>\n<p>It was a blast! Fantastic bikes, nice weather, and L won a motorcycle part in the raffle. The only drawback was that there weren&#8217;t any bikes for sale that were anywhere close to our range &#8211; the 2 I saw with for sale signs were definitely in the &#8220;If you have to ask&#8230;&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Fave #1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3193\/2578202739_32a535a68f_b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3193\/2578202739_32a535a68f_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3193\/2578202739_32a535a68f.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Fave #2:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3076\/2578221663_e57592f134_b.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3076\/2578221663_e57592f134_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3076\/2578221663_e57592f134.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<p>And a slide show:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&#038;user_id=&#038;set_id=72157605608779638&#038;tags=Cars,Lotus,Exige\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>Created with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.admarket.se\" title=\"Admarket.se\">Admarket&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/flickrslidr.com\" title=\"flickrSLiDR\">flickrSLiDR<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the rhythm of the seasons&#8230; Just as October brings foliage to New Hampshire, so June brings us Bike Week. 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