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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nit’s time: i can ride the mountain bike with natalie but not the dirt bike and to be perfectly honest i much prefer riding the pushy with her than the dirt bike on my own, which equals zero kilometres for the little 250. it’s better off under someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n which brings us back to the heart transplant: when i tried to start up the bike it would crank but not run and after a little analysis it became pretty clear that the fuel pump was dead. they are $400 from the manufacturer or $40 on evilbay … seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n turns out the internal fuel filter was a rather unhealthy colour, too. while it’s unlikely that killed the pump it would not have helped the health of the system – so that got replaced, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n all good now, the bike is running again. now who needs a 250?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" that’s how we roll here. health first or everything else is pretty much meaningless. in this case that’s particularly true. we’re of course not talking about a person here. that said a heart’s a pump and a fuel injected bike is as dead without a working pump as a human would be. not great news… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-our-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/heart_transplant-1-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MvER-3QY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14822,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions\/14822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/heart_transplant-1-1.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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