{"id":121,"date":"2016-04-28T04:50:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T04:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.witham.net.nz\/?p=121"},"modified":"2020-06-05T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T03:01:36","slug":"the-big-red-pig-has-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/2016\/04\/28\/the-big-red-pig-has-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Red Pig has gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much thought and soul searching, the BRP had to go. We simply had far too many motorbikes in the garage and I found it wasn&#8217;t getting riden hardly ever. It&#8217;s gone to a good new home in Auckland. It was hooligan bike in every way, but just too agressive, harsh and my arse couldn&#8217;t handle the hard seat for any more than 30 minutes.&nbsp; The VStrom is now filling the void that the BRP has left.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_141500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_141500-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20151121_141500\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_141500-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_141500-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_141500-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_144402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_144402-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20151121_144402\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_144402-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_144402-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20151121_144402-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a> Here&#8217;s the last footage of me riding it on the beach:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"XR650R beach ride at Red Rocks, Wellington, New Zealand- Part 1\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RvZbT0UcrLU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"XR650R beach ride at Red Rocks, Wellington, New Zealand- Part 2\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9VYEs43b6Gk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much thought and soul searching, the BRP had to go. We simply had far too many motorbikes in the garage and I found it wasn&#8217;t getting riden hardly ever. It&#8217;s gone to a good new home in Auckland. It was hooligan bike in every way, but just too agressive, harsh and my arse couldn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/2016\/04\/28\/the-big-red-pig-has-gone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Big Red Pig has gone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xr650r","category-motorbikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}