{"id":35,"date":"2003-06-26T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-26T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2003-06-26T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-26T17:59:00","slug":"the-triumph-of-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"The Triumph of eBay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long month of reading and shopping and searching through the classifieds and many other sources, I&#8217;ve bought a motorcycle! Not what I first started off at, but perhaps a better purchase overall. I&#8217;ve put money down on a project bike, a &quot;parts bike&quot; &#8211; a 1970 Triumph Trophy 500 &#8211; aka T100C.  Its very much like the first Triumph I had in school &#8230; a bike I rode to Myrtle Beach one very long Labor Day weekend. The bike I&#8217;m getting needs a battery, paint, better tires and some finessing to get it running &#8211; but its a great start for a 33 year old bike  (Manufactured date Feb 1970).<br \/>\nI have visions of cleaning it up and stripping it down like some of the leaned down bikes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racert.com\/projects.htm\"><br \/>\non this site &#8230; <\/a> &#8211; like a 500cc version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racert.com\/t120dirt.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[35]\"> of this one<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"photobody\"><a href=\"\/bikes\/500twins.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/bikepix\/69-t100c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"149\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <br \/>A gorgeous 69 Trophy 500 I saw online (Click to see more)<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long month of reading and shopping and searching through the classifieds and many other sources, I&#8217;ve bought a motorcycle! Not what I first started off at, but perhaps a better purchase overall. I&#8217;ve put money down on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=35\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}