{"id":461,"date":"2011-11-06T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2011\/11\/06\/switching-motorcycles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T20:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:13:02","slug":"switching-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2011\/11\/06\/switching-motorcycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching motorcycles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided earlier this year – in the summer – that I wanted to make the switch to a dual sport motorcycle by the following summer. It wasn’t a decision I came to lightly. I have loved my Honda Nighthawk<\/a>. It’s been the perfect first motorcycle, and it’s taken me absolutely everywhere I’ve wanted to go. But I can’t see touring Chil\u00e9 with it (yes, that’s my goal – among many other countries). I want to be able to do dirt and gravel with more confidence, and while I realize that’s going to require improved riding skills on my part, it’s also going to require a different motorcycle.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>I started researching possible dual sports – or even a motorcycle that had decent clearance and could be fit with knobby tires – that would fit my size. Being short, the possibilities were limited. One evening, we had pretty much decided on the KLR 650 – and then the very next day, found a fantastic deal on one on Craigslist. We couldn’t pass it up – and we bought it<\/a>. We hadn’t intended to put the Nighthawk on the market<\/a> until the Spring of 2012, at the earliest – and since that meant me riding it for six more months, we’d re-registered it, bought and installed a new chain set, and bought a new back tire. So, a few hundred dollars we would not have spent had we known this KLR was in our future…<\/p>\n

So, that’s my big news. Much more to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided earlier this year – in the summer – that I wanted to make the switch to a dual sport motorcycle by the following summer. It wasn’t a decision I came to lightly. I have loved my Honda Nighthawk. It’s been the perfect first motorcycle, and it’s taken me absolutely everywhere I’ve wanted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,476,981,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pnw","category-motorcycle","category-travel","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}