{"id":2425,"date":"2012-04-10T08:48:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2012-04-10T08:50:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:50:59","slug":"honda-qa50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"Honda QA50"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: 4 miles]<\/p>\n

When I was in elementary school my parents bought us kids a mini-bike.\u00a0 I’m not sure why they did that, probably because we pestered them to the point where they gave in!<\/p>\n

We shopped for awhile.\u00a0 At one point I remember looking at the “Western Auto” generic mini-bikes both in catalogs and maybe in person.\u00a0 Eventually dad bought us a Honda QA-50.\u00a0 It was green, just like the one in this picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our house was a congregation point for a lot of the kids in the neighborhood.\u00a0 And we had a circular driveway (you could make a complete circle if you also used the sidewalk).\u00a0 I remember standing in line with half a dozen of the neighbor kids.\u00a0 Each person got two laps around the circle on the mini-bike. Then they had to give it up to the next person and move to the back of the line.<\/p>\n

I also remember crashing the thing once, ending up underneath it with hot fuel running down my leg.\u00a0 Nothing like some minor tragedy to spice up a guy’s childhood.\u00a0 I think there might be still a mark on my knee from that incident.\u00a0 But, no stitches, no broken bones.\u00a0 Put on a band-aid and get back in line.<\/p>\n

If I remember correctly, my older brother got to be about 15 and he purchased his own “dirt-bike”, a 70cc Indian, which made our QA-50 look a bit pitiful.\u00a0 Also\u00a0 at one time the QA-50 was disassembled for some repair.\u00a0 So after a couple of years of distraction the QA-50 floats out of my memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: 4 miles] When I was in elementary school my parents bought us kids a mini-bike.\u00a0 I’m not sure why they did that, probably because we pestered them to the point where they gave in! We shopped for awhile.\u00a0 At one point I remember looking at the “Western Auto” generic mini-bikes both in catalogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}