{"id":793,"date":"2026-11-12T16:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=793"},"modified":"2026-11-14T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T00:05:19","slug":"my-harley-davidson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=793","title":{"rendered":"My Harley-Davidson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/harley-breakout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-795 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/harley-breakout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/harley-breakout.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/harley-breakout-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/harley-breakout-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/harley-breakout-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/harley-breakout-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>My Harley-Davidson Breakout<\/h2>\n<p>I ordered my Harley-Davidson Breakout (a 2018 model, FXBR, 1745\u00a0cc) on 17 October 2017 and collected it on 11 December 2017.<\/p>\n<h2>A long wait for a motorbike<\/h2>\n<p>My wife was very much against me having a motorbike while we lived in the UK, before we moved to Korea in 2015. I also wanted to learn to fly after I retired, but a friend of mine was killed in a tragic accident during his pilot training, so there was no pilot licence for me. Once we were living in Korea she relented, and she agreed to the motorbike.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting my Korean motorcycle licence<\/h2>\n<p>I took my motorcycle licence in Korea while we were living in Yeosu. The theory course was only given in Korean, so I just had to attend the hours. The practical exam circuit was so tight that I let the bike fall over to one side and then accelerated into the corners, without touching the lines. I passed cum laude.<\/p>\n<h2>Rides worth remembering<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"\/wordpress\/?page_id=839\">2020 Harley-Davidson Korea Tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"\/wordpress\/?page_id=801\">Namwon &amp; Jirisan, 27\u201329 March 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Harley-Davidson Breakout I ordered my Harley-Davidson Breakout (a 2018 model, FXBR, 1745\u00a0cc) on 17 October 2017 and collected it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"disabled","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"disabled","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vandermeij.familyds.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}