{"id":2766,"date":"2010-09-30T18:36:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2012-09-02T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:28:28","slug":"solo-flight-to-tail-of-the-dragon-and-asheville-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2010\/09\/solo-flight-to-tail-of-the-dragon-and-asheville-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo flight to Tail of the Dragon and Asheville NC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its on Saturday morning! I will be back when the spirits are gone.<\/p>\n

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I have been working in the shop getting the bike together for the past week. I made a windscreen to keep the bugs out of my teeth when i’m grinning down the the dragon. <\/p>\n

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I used an old helmet visor from the 70s and some aluminum stock from ACE hardware.
\n I also built panniers out of vintage Italian military bags and mounted a 3\/8 aluminum rod from the rear foot rest mount to the fender to keep the bags out of the wheels and shocks.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a look at the bagger.<\/p>\n

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While I was at it I made a belt buckle out of a thrashed generator cover from a 354.<\/p>\n

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Its on Saturday morning! I will be back when the spirits are gone. I have been working in the shop getting the bike together for the past week. I made a windscreen to keep the bugs out of my teeth when i’m grinning down the the dragon. I used an old helmet visor from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,42,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}