{"id":6342,"date":"2014-07-05T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:42:22","slug":"test-drive-bmw-800-gs-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=6342","title":{"rendered":"Test drive: BMW 800 GS Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got to ride the BMW 800 GS Adventure here the other day, and what a comfortable ride. Would I want one? Maybe, might be a bit to big for my commuting needs, and I would guess my adventure needs so small that it won&#8217;t be worth spending all that money on this bike. In the video below he wraps up that you do not need to pay a lot of money to get a bike that is heavy and good on the high way. But, on the other hand, why let common sense decide?<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2014\/07\/bmwgs800adv.jpg?mtime=1404536305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2014\/07\/bmwgs800adv.jpg?mtime=1404536305\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the bike[video:youtube:L8Gi-FVTXN4]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got to ride the BMW 800 GS Adventure here the other day, and what a comfortable ride. Would I want one? Maybe, might be a bit to big for my commuting needs, and I would guess my adventure needs so small that it won&#8217;t be worth spending all that money on this bike. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11253,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions\/11253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}