{"id":45,"date":"2006-05-31T11:49:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/31\/riding-with-rusty\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T17:10:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T09:10:27","slug":"riding-with-rusty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/31\/riding-with-rusty\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding with Rusty"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an owner of a Golden Retriever, I’m often thinking of how I can make my walks more interesting for my dog who has a lot of social problems<\/a>. I’m thinking if I can take him out to different places more, he’ll get used to going to new places and doing new things.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, going on foot doesn’t take me very far. And as a writer living in Singapore, a car, or any vehicle on 4 wheels is rather costly to purchase and maintain.<\/p>\n

So it hit me, why not get a motorcycle with a sidecar?<\/p>\n

A motorcycle is a more reasonably priced engine to get and maintain. With a sidecar, I can put Rusty in there and we could go to all sorts of wonderful places.<\/p>\n

My friend asked if I wanted to look like Wallace and Gromit. Heck why not? They’re a cute pair. No one would ever associate cute with me. Maybe it’s time for a personality change.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, sidecars in Singapore are a rarity. The only guys driving it are old ah peks and uncles. They look like they’re attached to a clunky red metal wash basin or look like this<\/a>. And they sure look nothing like these shiny beasts<\/a>. Hell, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as sidecar racing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before getting ahead of myself, I decided to get more information on owning sidecars. I knew already that I’d probably have to get a motorcycle license and I’d need to add that cost and time commitment into this whole plan of mine.<\/p>\n

So I visited the Land Transport Authority’s<\/a> web site. Unfortunately, I found nothing about sidecars there. It only really had some comprehensive information on car ownership<\/a>. It would seem Singaporeans don’t care to purchase motorcycles. But I’ve seen them on occasion so I know they exist. So I hit the search button.<\/p>\n

Finally! I hit on a PDF document on the Annual Vehicle Statistics 2005<\/a>. Apparently the LTA thinks no one might be interested in vehicle statistics from years before. But I am. Now that I’ve found 2005’s.<\/p>\n

After hunting through the document with a magnifying glass, I found the phrase “motorcycle with sidecar” under Note 3 in extra tiny font. Apparently, motorcycles with sidecars are in the “others” category, which includes “hearses, (and) vehicles used for specific purposes and engineering plants etc.”<\/p>\n

Having no other information from LTA, it was time to send them an e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an owner of a Golden Retriever, I’m often thinking of how I can make my walks more interesting for my dog who has a lot of social problems. I’m thinking if I can take him out to different places more, he’ll get used to going to new places and doing new things. Unfortunately, going … <\/p>\n

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