{"id":5956,"date":"2020-05-07T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T09:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2020-05-07T10:39:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T09:39:02","slug":"socially-distant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/socially-distant\/","title":{"rendered":"Socially distant &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5957\" src=\"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22.png 1920w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-100x56.png 100w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-862x485.png 862w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-07-at-09.45.22-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so we&#8217;re moving towards media-driven suggestions that lockdown is up for a staged relaxation \u2013 never mind what happened a hundred years ago when a second wave hit after months not days or weeks of the original spike, or what may or may not be happening in Spain now \u2013 but here is an idea.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t just relax the lockdown on motorcycles, <em>make their use compulsory for anyone who has a road legal one<\/em>, because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we&#8217;re wearing some sort of PPE already, and not the kind that reduces availability for front line health services<\/li>\n<li>even those of us who are not anti-social by nature are already physically socially distant by definition: we&#8217;re not the Red Arrows.\n<ul>\n<li>solo seats could be encouraged<\/li>\n<li>nobody but two people from the same household would ever wear matching leathers<\/li>\n<li>the rest of us can take our chances with a roadside check<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>smaller fuel tanks mean we have to refuel more frequently:\n<ul>\n<li>even this Indian Chief Vintage, and most tourers have little more than 200 miles in a tank<\/li>\n<li>it supports the wider economy &#8230; well, the wider fuel station network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>but more importantly than that:\n<ul>\n<li>the roads are empty<\/li>\n<li>the weather is brilliant<\/li>\n<li>petrol hasn&#8217;t been this cheap in years<\/li>\n<li>those riders who want to get out \u2013 and even some that don&#8217;t \u2013 are living with people who desperately need them to go out &#8230; before they kill them!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We promise that we won&#8217;t talk to anyone when we&#8217;re out \u2013 especially if you give us all bike-to-bike intercoms, and there are some stunning models out there now.<\/p>\n<p>And we will observe strict social distancing at places where bikes might congregate, like outside those food outlets that are managing to stay open \u2013 a further boost to the wider economy \u2013 especially if the other people there are riding the wrong bike.<\/p>\n<p>You know it makes sense!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so we&#8217;re moving towards media-driven suggestions that lockdown is up for a staged relaxation \u2013 never mind what happened a hundred years ago when &#8230; 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