{"id":2051,"date":"2018-09-03T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T07:33:19","slug":"tiger-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/tiger-women\/","title":{"rendered":"TIGER WOMEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidences are funny.\u00a0 \u00a0I realize our minds can find patterns where none exist, but sometimes things happen that make you wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is Monday September 3rd.\u00a0 I last saw NAS (that&#8217;s Special Agent Nancy) on Friday August 31st.\u00a0 \u00a0In case you are reading out of order, NAS has the same bike as mine, a 2011 Triumph Tiger.\u00a0 \u00a0This is a fairly tall bike even if the suspension is lowered.\u00a0 \u00a0There are not a lot of Triumph Tigers around, and even fewer women riding them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So today, as I was walking away from my bike in a parking lot near a bunch of Viking Ships, I see a woman riding a Triumph Tiger.\u00a0 \u00a0Very unusual.\u00a0 \u00a0So, of course, a selfie is required:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.13.38-1-e1536008638333.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2059\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.13.38-1-e1536008638333-525x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.13.38-1-e1536008638333-525x700.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.13.38-1-e1536008638333-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.13.38-1-e1536008638333-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.13.38-1-e1536008638333.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not sure how good her English is, so I am not completely sure if she understood why I was taking the photo, but she did say:\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s not everyday that a man gets down on one knee for me.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I may have just proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Then a woman on a Triumph Speed Triple I think pulls up.\u00a0 \u00a0And another on a Honda something, and yet another on a BMW.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.24.52-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2055\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.24.52-1-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.24.52-1-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.24.52-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.24.52-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-03-15.24.52-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They had to go, so I went in and looked at both new and old Viking ships.\u00a0 \u00a0Post to follow.<\/p>\n<p>When I came out, there were a ton of bikes in the parking lot.\u00a0 \u00a0All styles, all brands.\u00a0 \u00a0All driven by women.\u00a0 \u00a0It turns out there was a 40th Jubilee (anniversary I think) for a local Woman&#8217;s Motorcycle Club.\u00a0 \u00a0There was a news crew there to interview them.<\/p>\n<p>In this day and age, it should not surprise anyone to see women on bikes, but it is still unusual to see large groups of all women riding together.\u00a0 \u00a0It is good to see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_6570.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_6570-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_6570-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_6570-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_6570-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_6570-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here they go.\u00a0 \u00a0The Tiger rider is the last to leave, Tail Rider being a very important position in a group.\u00a0 \u00a0 Tiger Tail in this case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whereisbobl.smugmug.com\/BLOG\/2018-09-00-retire-chronicles\/i-RPj8JbC\/A\">VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/api.smugmug.com\/services\/embed\/image\/7510244885_RPj8JbC?width=525&#038;height=295\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidences are funny.\u00a0 \u00a0I realize our minds can find patterns where none exist, but sometimes things happen that make you wonder. Here it is Monday September 3rd.\u00a0 I last saw NAS (that&#8217;s Special Agent Nancy) on Friday August 31st.\u00a0 \u00a0In case you are reading out of order, NAS has the same bike as mine, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/tiger-women\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TIGER WOMEN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-pics","category-short","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whereisbobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}