{"id":89,"date":"2025-01-16T16:51:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:52:46","slug":"january-2025-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/16\/january-2025-update\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2025 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve just updated the database with about 250 ads from the year 1935; until today this was quite a big hole in the records&#8230; I still have to find new material from the 1920s and look forward to updating this blog accordingly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Manufacturers-Norton-1935-32338.jpg\" alt=\"Norton Model 18\" width=\"495\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Manufacturers-Norton-1935-32338.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Manufacturers-Norton-1935-32338-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-90\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1935 Norton Model 18<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I braved the cold to visit the January Classic Motorbike Show at Newark &#8211; &#8216;Normous Newark.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m delighted to say that it was very busy, which bodes well for the Classic Bike movement&#8230; however it appeared to me that the majority of the stands were displaying Japanese classics rather than old British Iron. I get this; the majority of classic bike enthusiasts now are from a different generation and no different to &#8216;old farts&#8217; like me whose dream bikes were, and still are from the 1950s &amp; 60s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However I think I&#8217;ve already said in these rants that my current ride is a 20 year old Suzuki SV650 but I&#8217;ve owned, ridden and enjoyed many Hondas over the years, including&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_91\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cb72.jpg\" alt=\"Honda CB72 250cc\" width=\"465\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cb72.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cb72-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honda CB72 250cc<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_92\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/s90.jpg\" alt=\"Honda S.90\" width=\"505\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/s90.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/s90-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honda S.90<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.. that it for now folks, back to the Ariel Adverts 1904-1964 compilation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just updated the database with about 250 ads from the year 1935; until today this was quite a big hole in the records&#8230; I still have to find new material from the 1920s and look forward to updating this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/16\/january-2025-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rockersbikeads.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}