{"id":75,"date":"2007-04-26T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2007-04-26T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T13:22:42","slug":"what-is-it-with-smoking-and-bikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/what-is-it-with-smoking-and-bikers\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it with smoking and bikers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has always been a connection between smoking and bikers. I can&#8217;t put my finger on why, but it&#8217;s something that still persists today. It particularly came to mind last year when my bike club <a href=\"http:\/\/londonbikers.com\">londonbikers.com<\/a>, went over to France and we had to stop every 1\/2 hour to facilitate various smoking habits. <\/p>\n<p>This was when I really started smoking cigars again, naughty I know, but in Central London there&#8217;s nothing better than finding a nice secluded spot, leaning on the bike and enjoying 1\/2 hour of bliss as you let the city and it&#8217;s traffic pass you by. It&#8217;s the easiest way of achieving enlightenment I&#8217;ve discovered so far.<\/p>\n<p>Then last night I was reminded again of this strange connection, looking at the Camel advert above a pool table, the biker surrounded by nothing but fields and obviously a &#8216;free spirit&#8217; &#8211; and that&#8217;s it I think. Biking has always been something of a statement. I&#8217;m on my own, I don&#8217;t need anyone else, and if I want a cigarette then damn it I am. It&#8217;s an escape, something that only you can enjoy. <\/p>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;re in a club of course and then everyone can enjoy your fag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/473355694\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/198\/473355694_133bb44293.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Motorcycle Imagery\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has always been a connection between smoking and bikers. I can&#8217;t put my finger on why, but it&#8217;s something that still persists today. It particularly came to mind last year when my bike club londonbikers.com, went over to France and we had to stop every 1\/2 hour to facilitate various smoking habits. This was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}