{"id":64,"date":"2012-07-07T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:41:33","slug":"2007-chopper-ride","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/?page_id=64","title":{"rendered":"2007 Chopper Ride to Key West"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just before Memorial Day, I joined a few friends on a 2-day bike trip to Key West.\u00a0 I had been wanting to try out\u00a0a chopper for the longest time, so I rented a Bougert’s Chopper from Orange County Choppers in Ft Lauderdale and headed to the Keys.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was a powerful purple monster with\u00a0a big, fat 300 tire on the back that was real fun to ride.\u00a0 While the chopper in the foreground is the bike I first rented, it isn’t the bike I road back on.\u00a0 See, we hadn’t made it to the Red Road toll plaza on the turnpike, when Richard realized that the 6-inch bolt that holds the gas tank to the frame was missing!\u00a0 Bougert’s kindly met us in Key Largo and switched choppers.\u00a0 Stuff happens I guess.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the bike\u00a0that I completed the trip on.\u00a0 Same frame and motor, but a slightly smaller back tire which made it more nimbler to ride.\u00a0 Choppers don’t come\u00a0with a windshield (of course) so the ride got fun once we picked up some speed and the rain started.\u00a0 All that\u00a0I could do is keep my head as low as possible to the gas tank (which was firmly affixed to the\u00a0frame this time) and my hands on the grips.\u00a0 Here we are lined up in front of the little B and B that we stayed in.<\/p>\n

While I ended up slowing everyone down with my bike problem, we did get to catch a few beers at Sloppy Joe’s, enjoy some great meals, and see Mel Fisher’s Treasure Museum.\u00a0 I even made it to the Southern-most Point of the U.S.!\u00a0 All-in-all a fun ride.\u00a0 A Chopper is a fun ride for short trips, but next time I head to the Keys it will be on something with a more comfortable seat and a windshield (I promise honey)!<\/p>\n

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Just before Memorial Day, I joined a few friends on a 2-day bike trip to Key West.\u00a0 I had been wanting to try out\u00a0a chopper for the longest time, so I rented a Bougert’s Chopper from Orange County Choppers in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1170,"menu_order":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/1185"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wherearemomanddad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}