{"id":57,"date":"2004-05-04T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T11:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2005-08-17T21:12:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T11:12:26","slug":"amelie-the-motobecane-moped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Amelie &#8211; the Motobecane moped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my historic vehicle has arrived from Perth where I&#8217;ve had it in storage &#8211; there will be more as the restoration progresses \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>And last week I managed to get Amelie started &#8211; I&#8217;ve had this 1970 model French Motobecane moped since the mid 1970s and it&#8217;s been in storage for the last 15 years. The restoration might take a while but the main thing is knowing that the bike is basically sound \ud83d\ude42 I have fitted the wheels, seat, pedals, handlebars, rack and mudguards. Bought a new spark plug, and new fuel line, poured in some two-stroke mix and squirted some &#8216;Aerostart&#8221;[tm] and after much grunting and furious pedalling, the engine started with a great cloud of smoke and a foul smell &#8211; but it goes! As it is older than 30 years it would now be classified as an historic vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/motobecane1.jpg' alt='Motobecane 40V 1970 - before restoration' \/><br \/>\n<strong>The moped fresh out of the box &#8211; the &#8220;before&#8221; photo!<\/strong><br \/>\nCheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my historic vehicle has arrived from Perth where I&#8217;ve had it in storage &#8211; there will be more as the restoration progresses \ud83d\ude09 And last week I managed to get Amelie started &#8211; I&#8217;ve had this 1970 model French Motobecane moped since the mid 1970s and it&#8217;s been in storage for the last 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}