{"id":2389,"date":"2004-05-21T13:11:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/05\/21\/midget-motorcycles-terrorize-boston\/"},"modified":"2004-05-21T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T17:11:10","slug":"midget-motorcycles-terrorize-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/21\/midget-motorcycles-terrorize-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Midget Motorcycles Terrorize Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3387'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/minibikke.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n        sparkling chrome mufflers, sleek fiberglass bodies, and ventilated disc<br \/>\n        brakes are enough to please any motorcycle admirer. But the bikes that<br \/>\n        scream up and down Deborah Connally&#8217;s street each night are 2 feet high.<br \/>\n        And they&#8217;re driven by 13-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>      Mini motorbikes, going by names like Ninja Super Racer and Mini Chopper,<br \/>\n      have become the rage among teenagers in Boston, and they&#8217;re driving adults<br \/>\n      like Connally nuts.<\/p>\n<p>      Relatively inexpensive, too small to require a license, and built to look<br \/>\n      like racing bikes, the bikes are flying out of showrooms at motorcycle<br \/>\n      and auto accessory stores.<\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2004\/05\/21\/mini_motorbikes_make_many_roar\/\"> the<br \/>\n          Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sparkling chrome mufflers, sleek fiberglass bodies, and ventilated disc brakes are enough to please any motorcycle admirer. But the bikes that scream up and down Deborah Connally&#8217;s street each night are 2 feet high. And they&#8217;re driven by 13-year-olds. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/21\/midget-motorcycles-terrorize-boston\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}