{"id":27,"date":"2011-08-17T08:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T08:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2011-08-31T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T20:39:01","slug":"bluhofi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Bluhofi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t introduced my partner in this adventure. This is Bluhofi, an 2002 Yamaha TDM 900.<a href=\"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010295-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42\" title=\"Bluhofi\" src=\"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010295-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010295-copy.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010295-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1010295-copy-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first saw a TDM when on holiday down south with friends &#8211; one of the people we were sharing a cottage with brought a TDM 850, and when I sat on it, it felt like the first bike that had been the right shape for me. I was riding an XJ600 at the time, and at the first chance, I traded it for a blue Yamaha TDM 850. I think a bike becomes a bit more than a machine when you give it a name that fits.<\/p>\n<p>Bluhofi as a name came about from the discussion that the word &#8220;Blu&#8221; in Old Norse didn&#8217;t describe exactly the same colours that we&#8217;d consider blue, covering almost black colours as well &#8211; and it reminded me of the hints of blue I see in tyre rubber.\u00a0 So, Bluhofi &#8211; &#8220;blue\/black hooves&#8221; &#8211; and hopefully a steady stride too.<\/p>\n<p>When I traded the TDM850 in for the new (blue, of course) TDM900, it felt like more like a new body for the same spirit, so the name moved to the new bike. If I ever trade the 900 in, I imagine it&#8217;d have to be for another blue bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t introduced my partner in this adventure. This is Bluhofi, an 2002 Yamaha TDM 900. I first saw a TDM when on holiday down south with friends &#8211; one of the people we were sharing a cottage with brought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/?p=27\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-thoughts","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betterrider.skirnir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}