{"id":4448,"date":"2019-05-24T05:50:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2019-05-24T05:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:50:19","slug":"cool-things-are-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/cool-things-are-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool things are happening!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a busy week, and lots of good things are happening.\u00a0 We&#8217;re having rain all over, and even thunder, lightning, and hail, but things are happening!<\/p>\n<p>For starters, our good buddies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.JanusMotorcycles.com\">Janus Motorcycles<\/a> made the <em>New York Times<\/em> in yesterday&#8217;s edition.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/23\/business\/janus-motorcycles-goshen-indiana.html?fbclid=IwAR10y9u1icCn2EF-3nj6NiDiRbpFfqCuo-V09wRM0p0Zimch0tNQRrU7OGc\">You can read the story here<\/a>.\u00a0 Folks, from a public relations perspective, it just doesn&#8217;t get any better than getting a story in the <em>New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a tremendous accomplishment, especially when considered in light of the fact that the story spoke so very well of Janus and their team.\u00a0 I enjoyed the Baja ride with Devin and Jordan tremendously, and it&#8217;s good to see these guys doing well.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 <em>The New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0 I am impressed!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4449\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4449\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JanusFounders.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JanusFounders.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JanusFounders-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devin Biek and Richard Worsham, the Janus founders. I rode Baja with Devin. Richard rode a Janus across the United States.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Next up:\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/CSCMotorcycles.com\">CSC<\/a> guys are in the middle of their Moab get-together, and following the photos on Facebook, it looks like they are having a hell of a good time.\u00a0 Good for them!\u00a0 CSC does more rides with their customers than any motorcycle company I know, and that&#8217;s a good thing.\u00a0 They&#8217;re out there offering test rides on the new San Gabriel and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhaustnotes.us\/RX4.html\">RX4<\/a>, too.\u00a0 Cool stuff.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhaustnotes.us\/RX4.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/20181024_7451-650.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CSC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhaustnotes.us\/RX4.html\">RX4<\/a> in the San Gabriel Mountains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And a few more developments&#8230;we&#8217;ve now got a page indexing our more memorable adventure rides, and it&#8217;s appropriately titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhaustnotes.us\/Rides.html\">Epic Motorcycle Rides<\/a>.\u00a0 Click on the link to take a look.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve covered past rides on the ExNotes blog, and this new page provides a convenient index to all our rides in one easy spot.\u00a0 The Janus run, the Enfield run, the Three Flags Classic, the 150cc Mustang run down to Cabo, motorcycle racing in Baja, videos from the different rides, and more.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhaustnotes.us\/Rides.html\">Epic Motorcycle Rides<\/a>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4450\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhaustnotes.us\/Rides.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4450\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BajaEnfield20190318_0377-750-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BajaEnfield20190318_0377-750-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BajaEnfield20190318_0377-750-600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check out the new ExNotes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhaustnotes.us\/Rides.html\">Epic Motorcycle Rides<\/a> page!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a lot of new stuff coming your way, folks.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been playing with some cast bullet loads in the 1903 Springfield and we&#8217;ll have a piece on it soon.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got more motorcycle stories queued up, including one about running the KLRs through Baja.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got two new Facebook groups launched&#8230;one is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/2296661070430926\/\">Crappy Old Motorcycle Association<\/a> (or COMA, for short), and the other is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/547697448970855\/\">Guns and Ammo<\/a>, each with a focus on just what their names imply.\u00a0 And of course, we have our Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/exhaustnotes.us\/\">ExhaustNotes<\/a> page.\u00a0 We&#8217;d like you to sign up on all three&#8230;hey, we all could use more Facebook in our lives!<\/p>\n<p>One more thing&#8230;please consider signing up for the blog&#8217;s email updates.\u00a0 You might win a copy of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1091989478\">Destinations<\/a><\/em> at the end of this quarter if you do!<\/p>\n<p>Ride safe, my friends, and stay dry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a busy week, and lots of good things are happening.\u00a0 We&#8217;re having rain all over, and even thunder, lightning, and hail, but things are happening! For starters, our good buddies at Janus Motorcycles made the New York Times in yesterday&#8217;s edition.\u00a0 You can read the story here.\u00a0 Folks, from a public relations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/cool-things-are-happening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cool things are happening!&#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":[654,235,433,89,374,140,369],"tags":[78,708,293],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-amazon","category-janus","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-rx4","category-vintage-motorcycle","category-zongshen","tag-csc-motorcycles","tag-epic-motorcycle-rides","tag-janus-motorcycles"],"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\/4448","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=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}