{"id":185,"date":"2016-04-21T12:21:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T12:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/?p=185"},"modified":"2016-04-22T03:49:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T03:49:42","slug":"gallery-debut-of-bright-and-shiny-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/gallery-debut-of-bright-and-shiny-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLERY: Debut of bright and shiny paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Short Bus finally received its new coat of bright and shiny paint before the third round of the 2016 Atura NSW State Championships.<\/p>\n<p>This was the plan from the start. The tennis ball-effect plastidip was stripped and replaced by proper paint.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t finished yet and will be adding to the appearance of the bike, rider and crew before the upcoming Nitro Champs and Mick&#8217;s return to Competition Bike after a 22-year absence.<\/p>\n<p>More testing to come before that meeting. There&#8217;s no substitute for good practice with measurable results and expert advice.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Grant Stephens and Michael Wyllie from <a href=\"http:\/\/cacklingpipes.com\/\">Cackling Pipes<\/a> for making Mick look good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-186 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13041423_1149644898421411_985612634130626691_o-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"13041423_1149644898421411_985612634130626691_o-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13041423_1149644898421411_985612634130626691_o-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13041423_1149644898421411_985612634130626691_o-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13041423_1149644898421411_985612634130626691_o-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-187 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13072778_1149638251755409_1169004078439836309_o-300x200.png\" alt=\"13072778_1149638251755409_1169004078439836309_o\" width=\"801\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13072778_1149638251755409_1169004078439836309_o-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13072778_1149638251755409_1169004078439836309_o-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13072778_1149638251755409_1169004078439836309_o.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-188 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13048065_1149636561755578_4445880167633311674_o-300x200.png\" alt=\"13048065_1149636561755578_4445880167633311674_o\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13048065_1149636561755578_4445880167633311674_o-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13048065_1149636561755578_4445880167633311674_o-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13048065_1149636561755578_4445880167633311674_o.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-189 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13055061_1149633821755852_8439480527609394051_o-200x300.png\" alt=\"13055061_1149633821755852_8439480527609394051_o\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13055061_1149633821755852_8439480527609394051_o-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13055061_1149633821755852_8439480527609394051_o.png 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Short Bus finally received its new coat of bright and shiny paint before the third round of the 2016 Atura NSW State Championships. This&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/2016\/04\/21\/gallery-debut-of-bright-and-shiny-paint\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GALLERY: Debut of bright and shiny paint<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ratio-natural","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theshortbus.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}