{"id":86,"date":"2008-11-16T23:09:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T06:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-06-18T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T16:10:01","slug":"final-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/2008\/11\/16\/final-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 15<\/p>\n<p>Today was our final stop for bike maintenance. I had ordered some parts to my friend Steve&#8217;s house in Fontana, where we were staying. The bike have new chains and sprockets. We went shopping at the Chaparral motorcycle store and I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it before. It was as big as a WalMart but entirely dedicated to motorcycle parts. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/tirerack.jpg\" class=\"full-res-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/tirerack-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"TireRack.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/tirerack-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/tirerack-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/tirerack-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/tirerack.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Despite the thousands of tires on hand, I couldn&#8217;t find a satisfactory matching pair of tires. In the end I decided to put Continental TKC-80s on the rear and Bridgestone Trailways 42s on the front. I already had one TCK-80 on the rear of my blue bike, and have been very happy with it. I bought two extra TKC-80s to take with us on the trip, which should allow us quite some range before we have to find a new rear tire.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/rockband.jpg\" class=\"full-res-link\"><img src=\"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/rockband-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" alt=\"RockBand.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/rockband-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/rockband-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/rockband-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/rockband-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/rockband-2048x1362.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Running these errands took most of the day. My friend Adam drove in from LA so we had dinner at Steve&#8217;s and then spent the night playing Rock Band with a full set of instruments. We even had Inna singing the songs she knew. I&#8217;ll have to get this setup when we get back to Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 15 Today was our final stop for bike maintenance. I had ordered some parts to my friend Steve&#8217;s house in Fontana, where we were staying. The bike have new chains and sprockets. We went shopping at the Chaparral motorcycle store and I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it before. It was as big as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronotonic.com\/southernexposure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}