{"id":1543,"date":"2003-09-10T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2003-09-10T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2003-09-10T14:50:59","slug":"tiny-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Tiny bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving in this morning I spotted something on a side street that freaked me out for a minute.  It looked like a guy, in full motorbike gear, zipping along the sidewalk at roughly knee level.  He was a block away and behind a row of parked cars, so I couldn&#8217;t see what he was riding, but he was nearly matching the speed of car traffic on Washtenaw.  When it got to an intersection, I was able to spot that he was scooting along on a tiny racing motorcycle.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow, I&#8217;ve heard of these things before&#8230; Apparently they&#8217;re big in Japan.  They&#8217;re called &#8220;Minimoto&#8221; or &#8220;Pocket Bikes.&#8221;  I did a little bit of web searching and I found a place with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minimoto-usa.com\/\">more details<\/a> about them&#8230;  From what I can tell they&#8217;re not street legal, but they look like a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving in this morning I spotted something on a side street that freaked me out for a minute. It looked like a guy, in full motorbike gear, zipping along the sidewalk at roughly knee level. He was a block away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1543\">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":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}