{"id":933,"date":"2023-04-13T03:05:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T03:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/?p=933"},"modified":"2023-04-13T03:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T03:07:04","slug":"les-van-breda-tr500-xr500-tr500-mkii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/2023\/04\/13\/les-van-breda-tr500-xr500-tr500-mkii\/","title":{"rendered":"Les van Breda &#8211; TR500 &#038; XR500 (TR500 MkII)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">This is Les van Breda multiple South African Motorcycle Champion.<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-937\" src=\"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/breda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/breda.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/breda-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Blue bike is my XR05 (ready to run at last!), and the wine red bike<br \/>\nyou have featured before is Phil de Gruchy&#8217;s air cooled TR500.<\/p>\n<p>Les won South African championships on both of these bikes. He says the<br \/>\nwatercooled XR05 had a great engine, but the aircooled TR handled much<br \/>\nbetter. One of the main reasons for this is that the TR came from the<br \/>\nfactory fitted with a Cerriani front fork and 4ls front drum brake,<br \/>\nwhilst the XR had Suzuki modified forks and disc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Clive Strugnell<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Les van Breda multiple South African Motorcycle Champion. The Blue bike is my XR05 (ready to run at last!), and the wine red bike you have featured before is Phil de Gruchy&#8217;s air cooled TR500. Les won South<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/2023\/04\/13\/les-van-breda-tr500-xr500-tr500-mkii\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Les van Breda &#8211; TR500 &#038; XR500 (TR500 MkII)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tr500","category-les-van-breda","wpcat-24-id","wpcat-232-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozebook.com\/comune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}