{"id":203,"date":"2016-07-06T07:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T07:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.witham.net.nz\/?p=203"},"modified":"2017-07-24T08:12:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:12:36","slug":"v-strom-bash-plate-fitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/2016\/07\/06\/v-strom-bash-plate-fitted\/","title":{"rendered":"V Strom Bash Plate Fitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The front header pipe, oil filter and crankcase always looked really vulnerable, so I have installed a lovely alloy bash plate. Was a BITCH to fit, because the captive nut that the exhaust mounts on (where the bash plate happens to also need mounting on) was lock-tighted in so hard that it spun. I had to crush the outer captive nut holder with vice grips to get it undone. Needless to say the bolt thread was damaged and I had to run a tap through the not so captive nut and then find a new slightly longer bolt because of the extra thickness the bash plate added. Turns out an XR650R chain adjuster was just perfect :-). What should have been a 20 minute job turned into 2 hours! Anyway, got it sorted in the end!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160709_130523.resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160709_130523.resized.jpg\" alt=\"DL650 V Strom with Bash plate\" width=\"1638\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160709_130523.resized.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160709_130523.resized-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160709_130523.resized-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160709_130523.resized-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1638px) 100vw, 1638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front header pipe, oil filter and crankcase always looked really vulnerable, so I have installed a lovely alloy bash plate. Was a BITCH to fit, because the captive nut that the exhaust mounts on (where the bash plate happens to also need mounting on) was lock-tighted in so hard that it spun. I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/2016\/07\/06\/v-strom-bash-plate-fitted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">V Strom Bash Plate Fitted<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorbikes","category-dl650"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witham.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}