{"id":3909,"date":"2019-04-21T04:25:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T11:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2019-04-21T05:12:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T12:12:13","slug":"a-note-from-marty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/21\/a-note-from-marty\/","title":{"rendered":"A note from Marty…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good buddy Marty (with whom I’ve been riding for a long time) sent this email and photo yesterday…<\/p>\n

\"\"Joe,<\/em><\/p>\n

That is me, about 1954, on a 1953 Triumph T100C. It had a 500cc alloy engine, and (fanfare) twin carburetors (thus earning the C for competition). I loved this bike, it handled well, and for its time, was a road-burner. I ran it so hard that I collapsed a valve, and instead of fixing it, traded it on a 1957 Triumph Tiger 110 (which wasn\u2019t as fast!). Good times, good memories.<\/em><\/p>\n

Marty\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Very cool, Marty, and thanks very much.<\/p>\n

Marty and I have traveled a lot of miles together, including trips through the US, Baja, and the Three Flags Classic<\/a> covered here on the ExNotes blog.\u00a0 This is a more recent photo of Marty and his BMW…<\/p>\n

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Good buddy Marty (with whom I’ve been riding for a long time) sent this email and photo yesterday… Joe, That is me, about 1954, on a 1953 Triumph T100C. It had a 500cc alloy engine, and (fanfare) twin carburetors (thus earning the C for competition). I loved this bike, it handled well, and for its … Continue reading “A note from Marty…”<\/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":[235,392,140],"tags":[662,466],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-back-in-the-day","category-vintage-motorcycle","tag-marty","tag-three-flags-classic"],"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\/3909","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=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}