{"id":14160,"date":"2009-06-09T12:11:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14160"},"modified":"2009-06-09T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:44:31","slug":"motorcycle-street-dont-dismiss-buells-as-stripped-down-harleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14160","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Street &#8211; Don&#8217;t dismiss Buells as stripped-down Harleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You&#8217;ve been on the highway at, or just slightly above the speed limit, when a gang of sport bike kamikazes (labelled &#8220;organ donors&#8221; by my pal Jim Kenzie) goes screaming past at unbelievable speeds cutting in and out of traffic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The place for those with too much horsepower and too little regard for their own lives is the race track. Fortunately many such opportunities are available &#8212; they&#8217;re called Track Days. Every race track you&#8217;ve ever heard of, and hundreds more, open their doors to &#8220;organ donors&#8221; on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I never expect to have the opportunity to drive a Formula One car around a world famous race course. I did, however, have the opportunity to pilot a vehicle with an equivalent weight-to-horsepower ratio at Road America. Let me state clearly, the responsibility for this highly risky state of affairs rests on the shoulders of Don James&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20090608\/AUTOS_buell_090608\/20090608?s_name=Autos\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/placeholder-3701093?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been on the highway at, or just slightly above the speed limit, when a gang of sport bike kamikazes (labelled &#8220;organ donors&#8221; by my pal Jim Kenzie) goes screaming past at unbelievable speeds cutting in and out of traffic. The place for those with too much horsepower and too little regard for their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160","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=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14192,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions\/14192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}