{"id":603,"date":"2016-03-01T18:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/?p=603"},"modified":"2016-03-01T18:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:55:35","slug":"ride-it-like-you-stole-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Ride it like you stole it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/5030tta.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-604\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/5030tta-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"5030tta\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/5030tta-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/5030tta.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see our friend Carsten Conrad isn&#8217;t shy about using his bike as the maker intended. The eagle-eyed may notice\u00a0the modern rubber\u00a0which he prefers having covered around 1500 miles last year, often\u00a0riding in company with more modern machinery. Averaging\u00a054km\/h over a 220km ride on back roads\u00a0and through small towns hints at some serious throttle abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps not surprisingly he is now\u00a0looking for more performance from the motor: &#8220;The bike runs good but not yet enough&#8221;.\u00a0 With a new piston, genuine TT90 head fitted with large valves and his own valve guides, the target is now 30hp. I suspect that it won&#8217;t end there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0929.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-605\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0929-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"0929\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0929-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0929-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0929-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0929.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently donated my own spare Amac 10MDY to a worthy cause but if anybody has\u00a0one that they could pass on to replace\u00a0Carsten&#8217;s Amal 27\/013, please drop us a line to and we&#8217;ll put you in touch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to see our friend Carsten Conrad isn&#8217;t shy about using his bike as the maker intended. The eagle-eyed may notice\u00a0the modern rubber\u00a0which he prefers having covered around 1500 miles last year, often\u00a0riding in company with more modern machinery. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/?p=603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[66,15,16,10],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","tag-amac","tag-model-90","tag-piston","tag-sunbeam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeamland.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}