{"id":3984,"date":"2019-04-28T01:45:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T08:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2019-04-28T01:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T08:45:50","slug":"dream-bike-1920-excelsior-henderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/28\/dream-bike-1920-excelsior-henderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Bike:  1920 Excelsior-Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cool story, this is:\u00a0 An American (that would be me) goes to Western Australia to find vintage American motorcycles in a fabulous motor museum&#8230;or something along those lines.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t spotted any kangaroos yet (although eight of them did run across the front lawn of the Motor Museum of Western Australia while I was photographing this stunning 1920 Excelsior-Henderson).\u00a0 I missed my chance to photograph the &#8216;roos&#8230;but you can always get photos of kangaroos.\u00a0 How often do you encounter a 1920 Excelsior-Henderson?<\/p>\n<p>The short story here is that Excelsior-Henderson made motorcycles from 1907 to 1931 in Chicago, they made the first motorcycle that could hit 100 mph, and they were done in by the Great Depression.\u00a0 Beyond that, I&#8217;ll let the photos of this magnificent motorcycle do my talking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3985\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1221-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1221-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1221-600-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3986\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1219-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1219-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1219-600-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3987\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1218-900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1218-900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1218-900-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1218-900-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3988\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1222-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1222-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1222-600-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3989\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1218-600-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1218-600-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190426_1218-600-2-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>I am enjoying Australia immensely.\u00a0 Joe Gresh, you got it right&#8230;this is an awesome place. \u00a0 The western shore along the Indian Ocean, the food, the people, the scenery&#8230;it&#8217;s all amazing, and it&#8217;s not that different in feel, look, and climate than southern California. \u00a0 But the vintage motorcycles at the Motor Museum of Western Australia:\u00a0 Wowee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cool story, this is:\u00a0 An American (that would be me) goes to Western Australia to find vintage American motorcycles in a fabulous motor museum&#8230;or something along those lines. I haven&#8217;t spotted any kangaroos yet (although eight of them did run across the front lawn of the Motor Museum of Western Australia while I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/28\/dream-bike-1920-excelsior-henderson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dream Bike:  1920 Excelsior-Henderson&#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":[235,392,232,140],"tags":[673,671],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-back-in-the-day","category-dream-bike","category-vintage-motorcycle","tag-excelsior-henderson","tag-motor-museum-of-western-australia"],"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\/3984","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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}