{"id":11096,"date":"2009-05-02T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2009-05-02T22:43:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T05:43:31","slug":"motorcycle-street-cruiser-or-sport-bike-go-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11096","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Street &#8211; Cruiser or sport bike? Go naked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many riders consider the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s as the golden age of motorcycling, But many of those great bikes ended up in a wad by the side of the road, as their powerful new engines overwhelmed the crappy suspensions of the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Enterprising (read: broke) riders cut repair costs by transforming their wrecks themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Removing battered fairings.\u00c2\u00a0 Replacing lights and windscreens with anything handy.\u00c2\u00a0 Painting the results with a brush.\u00c2\u00a0 And out of these garage laboratories &#8212; cue the thunder and lightning &#8212; naked bikes were born: sport bike engines and chassis, flat or clip-on handlebars, virtually no fairing or bodywork.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eventually, nakeds became so popular they were legitimized.\u00c2\u00a0 Honda built the &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-5822-Seattle-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2009m5d1-Its-always-best-to-go-naked\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3700955?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many riders consider the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s as the golden age of motorcycling, But many of those great bikes ended up in a wad by the side of the road, as their powerful new engines overwhelmed the crappy suspensions of the time. Enterprising (read: broke) riders cut repair costs by transforming their wrecks themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Removing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11164,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions\/11164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}