{"id":35,"date":"2016-01-18T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T12:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2016-01-19T03:35:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:35:58","slug":"history-micks-first-nine-on-the-short-bus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/history-micks-first-nine-on-the-short-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#038; HISTORY: Mick&#8217;s first nine on The Short Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the start, Mick had a couple of goals for The Short Bus. The main one was to run his first nine-second ET (Elapsed Time) on it.<\/p>\n<p>After adding a longer swingarm and with added horsepower from Azzopardi Racing, the heavyweight rider finessed the clutch and managed his first single-digit run.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Micks-first-9-on-the-short-bus_1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mick's first 9 on the short bus_1\" width=\"681\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Micks-first-9-on-the-short-bus_1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Micks-first-9-on-the-short-bus_1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the scales at 390kg, Mick was happy.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he top qualified the Street Bike field at the three final rounds of the 2015 season, Mick was sick of short-shifting the engine before it reached peak power to slow The Short Bus down to the Street Bike class limit of 10.00 seconds. He may have snuck a couple of quicker runs in and run a 9.787 but we won&#8217;t talk about them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the start, Mick had a couple of goals for The Short Bus. The main one was to run his first nine-second ET (Elapsed Time)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/history-micks-first-nine-on-the-short-bus\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VIDEO &#038; HISTORY: Mick&#8217;s first nine on The Short Bus<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","ratio-natural","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}