{"id":1621,"date":"2026-06-30T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/?page_id=1621"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:08:55","slug":"dr-sprocket","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/dr-sprocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sprocket&#8217;s Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Richard Ostrander (aka Dr. Sprocket) was a long time member of the Fort Sutter Chapter of the AMCA. If you wanted to know something about motorcycling history, what part is what and where it goes, or just wanted to talk bikes, he was your man. <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unfortunately, Rich is longer with us, but his memory, stories and his articles below, will always be with us, RIP Dr. Sprocket.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Enjoy, chances are you are going to learn a thing or two.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Knucklehead.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1749 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket30-1-2-728x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket30-1-2-728x1024.png 728w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket30-1-2-213x300.png 213w, 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src=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-729x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-729x1024.png 729w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-768x1078.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-1094x1536.png 1094w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-1458x2048.png 1458w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-17x24.png 17w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-26x36.png 26w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy-34x48.png 34w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket27-1-Copy.png 1724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Two-Wheeled-Underground-Artists.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1738 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket75-1-704x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket75-1-704x1024.png 704w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket75-1-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/drsprocket75-1-768x1117.png 768w, 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If you wanted to know something about motorcycling history, what part is what and where it goes, or just wanted to talk bikes, he was your man. Unfortunately, Rich is longer with us, but his memory, stories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/dr-sprocket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Sprocket&#8217;s Column<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1621\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fortsutteramca.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}