{"id":187,"date":"2018-07-18T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:01:12","slug":"youll-get-a-charge-outta-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/18\/youll-get-a-charge-outta-this\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll get a charge outta this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188\" style=\"width: 782px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180718_5150-782.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180718_5150-782.jpg 782w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180718_5150-782-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180718_5150-782-768x708.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The only City Slicker in America residing in somebody&#8217;s garage&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180718_5148-782-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180718_5148-782-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180718_5148-782-1-152x300.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>No clutch. No noise. No gears. Best of all, no gas. Basically, no worries. If you can work an iPhone and ride a bicycle, you\u2019re there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoooeeeeee!\u201d I thought. This is going to be fun.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the only guy in America who has a new CSC City Slicker in his garage.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to be able to say I have a lot to learn about electric motorcycles, but there\u2019s not a lot to learn.\u00a0 There\u2019s close to zero maintenance (ooh, did I actually use that word?).\u00a0 One of my shooting buddies who owns a dealership in a large left-leaning California city (there\u2019s a redundant expression if ever there was one) is dropping his line of electric bikes because there\u2019s no follow-on maintenance. \u00a0 Follow-on maintenance is an important income stream for a dealership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we sell a tire once in a while,\u201d he said, \u201cbut that\u2019s it. Electric bikes just don\u2019t need maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So I rode a City Slicker home today. I stopped for a coffee on the way, because Slick was telling me he wanted to be a GS.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ll stop,&#8221; I said, echoing Lloyd Bentsen, &#8220;but you&#8217;re no GS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was cool. I almost wished I had a job again, just so I could make a daily commute. I\u2019ll bet I passed 30 or 40 gas stations on my 17-mile commute, and I was smiling the entire time. Four bucks a gallon? Who cares?<\/p>\n<p>One more time: This is going to be fun.<\/p>\n<p>Like Arjiu and I always say, check back often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No clutch. No noise. No gears. Best of all, no gas. Basically, no worries. If you can work an iPhone and ride a bicycle, you\u2019re there. \u201cWhoooeeeeee!\u201d I thought. This is going to be fun. I\u2019m the only guy in America who has a new CSC City Slicker in his garage. I\u2019d like to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/18\/youll-get-a-charge-outta-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You&#8217;ll get a charge outta this&#8230;&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,35,34,36],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-csc-city-slicker","tag-csc-electric-motorcycle","tag-electric-motorcycle","tag-zero-motorcycle"],"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\/187","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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}