{"id":1276,"date":"2018-10-11T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2018-10-11T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T18:30:04","slug":"singapore-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/singapore-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/opimedia.azureedge.net\/-\/media\/images\/mcc\/editorial\/articles\/magazine-articles\/2018\/11-01\/rides-and-destinations-the-nethercutt-museum-and-collection\/destinations-1-jpg.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Nethercutt, as explained in Motorcycle Classics magazine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wow, it sure has been a whirlwind five days. \u00a0 Hop on a airplane, fly to Singapore (20+ hours to get there), two days of business, and fly back (another 20+ hours of travel). \u00a0\u00a0 Getting through LAX Customs late last night was terrible (tons of people and massive midnight confusion&#8230;not a good combo, I think). \u00a0 Okay, enough bitching.\u00a0 On the plus side, life is good.\u00a0 ExhaustNotes.us readership continues to climb, <em>Motorcycle Classics<\/em> published my article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycleclassics.com\/classic-motorcycle-touring\/nethercutt-museum-collection-zmkz18ndzhur?newsletter=1&amp;spot=headline&amp;utm_source=wcemail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MCC%20eNews%2010.11.18&amp;utm_term=MCC_eNewsAll%20Subscribers&amp;_wcsid=E6A76D9DE578E50616A20B8C641CD8A534C892C289EE8F7F\">on the Nethercutt<\/a> (complete with a link to ExhaustNotes), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle.com\/how-to\/mo-maintenance-clean-filthy-carburetors\"><em>Motorcycle.com<\/em> gave us a link<\/a> to Joe Gresh&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/08\/zeds-not-dead-part-3\/\">Zed&#8217;s Not Dead<\/a> Z1 resurrection story, and I&#8217;m back here in Sweet Home California.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcycle.com.vsassets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/43185923_1884021441683074_2613894607896838144_o-1-517x388.jpg\" width=\"517\" height=\"388\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zed&#8217;s Not Dead, even though she&#8217;s suffering from advanced atherosclerosis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, Singapore&#8230;.they didn&#8217;t call that movie <em>Crazy Rich Asians<\/em> for nothing.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen the movie yet, but I&#8217;m going to. \u00a0 People always ask what Singapore is like.\u00a0 Well, it&#8217;s like Rodeo Drive without the poor people, I guess.\u00a0 Orchard Road is nonstop high end shopping and every other store sells Rolexes, Omegas, Breitlings, and Patek Phillippes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a watch guy, but Casio and Seiko are more my speed.\u00a0 But I like to look.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/43658065_10155903279566801_3696707639049191424_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&amp;oh=caacd8f6ce2338694c89283f1ed4f5ce&amp;oe=5C4A3837\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diving into Singapore, a tiny but incredibly wealthy country. Shipping, finance, oil refining, and tourism are its four major industries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/43679382_10155903279961801_4924748267691966464_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&amp;oh=e6e4b9131950f8dc505cec12d06eff94&amp;oe=5C443A01\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Along Orchard Road&#8230;embassies, art, and shopping.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/43652092_10155903279591801_3045132061972103168_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&amp;oh=29a34ee743d8211f6673de6cfa1f9aca&amp;oe=5C43BB82\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1 in every 34 Singaporeans is a millionaire, they say.\u00a0 I believe it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I like visiting Singapore, but I like visiting Tinfiny more.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more my speed.\u00a0 There are no Z1 Kawasaki motorcycles being resurrected in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, if you haven&#8217;t already done so, please add your name to the email notification widget on the right side of this page.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got good stuff coming up, including our plans for the December Baja run, more on the Z1 resurrection, the continuing 150cc Cabo scooter story, and more gun features.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t want to miss any of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it sure has been a whirlwind five days. \u00a0 Hop on a airplane, fly to Singapore (20+ hours to get there), two days of business, and fly back (another 20+ hours of travel). \u00a0\u00a0 Getting through LAX Customs late last night was terrible (tons of people and massive midnight confusion&#8230;not a good combo, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/singapore-and-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Singapore and more!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[251,349,350],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-bentley","tag-singapore","tag-tinfiny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}