{"id":747,"date":"2007-09-20T12:11:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T12:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytorussia.co.uk\/2007\/09\/20\/back-to-work\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:25:41","slug":"back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">I&#8217;ve been lying low for a bit and the other two have been out and about on their bikes so all in all a busy period where not much has changed as far as my Africa Twin is concerned. I&#8217;ll say sorry in advance as this bike has turned into an obsession.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent the entire summer spending every weekend at college which has meant only being able to look and think about the work required on the bike. Until now that is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So the panels have gone off to the paint shop, new fork internals have been ordered and are on the way and I have one remaining part to find and it&#8217;s the front brake master cylinder. The cost of replacement parts has shocked me. At a rough guess if I&#8217;d looked to replace all the parts with new Honda OEM stuff I&#8217;d have spent more than the trip itself will cost me (and probably us a group too).<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully I have been inundated with help from all quarters. From free parts to tip offs about parts for sale I&#8217;ve got the lot bar the one outstanding. It&#8217;s out there somewhere (it&#8217;s probably on German ebay &#8211; everything else is&#8230;) and I will find it.<\/p>\n<p>Going to take my front wheel to be sorted at college &#8211; new term has started and hopefully this will save me at least \u00a340.<\/p>\n<p>So stay tuned for photos and more details of the rebuild. At this rate I&#8217;ll be finished in time for winter &#8211; nice!<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been lying low for a bit and the other two have been out and about on their bikes so all in all a busy period where not much has changed as far as my Africa Twin is concerned. I&#8217;ll say sorry in advance as this bike has turned into an obsession. I&#8217;ve spent the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/back-to-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back to Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}