{"id":1568,"date":"2009-02-16T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2009-02-26T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T20:33:34","slug":"motorcycles-scooters-cruise-for-sales-edge-gas-prices-economy-helped-scooters-soar-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycles, Scooters Cruise For Sales Edge &#8211; Gas Prices, Economy Helped Scooters Soar Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1569\" title=\"motor-sales\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/motor-sales-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"motor-sales\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>The economy may be in the tank, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it walking around the Cycle World International Motorcycle Show in Minneapolis last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that times are tough for people at the moment,&#8221; said Steve Martindale of Honda Motorcycles. &#8220;But, we also know that motorcyclists are still keen to look at potential new bikes now, in preparation for the warmer months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the downturn in the economy and a drop from the high gas prices that had scooters and motorcycles rolling off showroom floors this summer, the market for most everything on two wheels has stayed relatively strong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Motorcycling is also an extremely viable, practical and economical means of transport, as well as a great way of having fun&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/automotive\/18724284\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy may be in the tank, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it walking around the Cycle World International Motorcycle Show in Minneapolis last weekend. &#8220;We know that times are tough for people at the moment,&#8221; said Steve Martindale of Honda Motorcycles. &#8220;But, we also know that motorcyclists are still keen to look at potential new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","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\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}