{"id":80,"date":"2012-04-23T17:06:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T17:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-04-23T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T17:06:57","slug":"study-speeder-bikes-may-hold-engineering-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Study: Speeder Bikes may hold engineering flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/?p=80\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-81\" title=\"Speeder Bike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/speederbike1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/speederbike1.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/speederbike1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>ENDOR &#8211;\u00a0Although speederbikes seem to be a welcome change for Stormtroopers stationed on Endor, engineers for the Empire now say the bikes may have a critical engineering flaw.<\/p>\n<p>Speederbikes allow troops to cruise through the wooded forests of the planet, but now experts say that the stabalizing front of the vehicle is built with sub-standard metal that could easily be cut through with a light saber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be like a warm knife through butter,&#8221; said Plo Mardish, chief engineer on the bike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re expecting a lot of lightsabers to be cutting through these things- but if one sliced the front end off, the bike would just keep on going, except wildly in a circle. The driver would have no chance,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Senate officals haven&#8217;t said whether more budget will be allocated to fixing the bikes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re also considering shortening the controls a bit just so if one of those pesky Ewoks got on, they couldn&#8217;t be able to reach them. \u00a0It would probably save the Ewok&#8217;s life more than anything,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENDOR &#8211;\u00a0Although speederbikes seem to be a welcome change for Stormtroopers stationed on Endor, engineers for the Empire now say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/starwars\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}