{"id":235,"date":"2009-02-04T02:38:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-02-24T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:42:09","slug":"cafe-racer-rave-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Cafe Racer Rave Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-234\" title=\"british-cafe-racer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/british-cafe-racer-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"british-cafe-racer\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><strong>Isn&#8217;t it funny how specific types of music are synonymous<\/strong> with certain motorcycles? Take the image of two Panhead choppers blasting along on a desert road, two lidless riders with Fu Manchu&#8217;s and wraparound sunglasses&#8211;the soundtrack that comes to mind is Steppenwolf&#8217;s &#8220;Born To Be Wild&#8221;, right? A stretched, chromed, and lowered turbo Hayabusa with neon lights sounds good with 50 Cent&#8217;s &#8220;Just A Li&#8217;l Bit&#8221;. Pierced-face SoCal dudes flying motocross bikes over sand dunes in the desert? Any drop-D tuned rap metal song will do.<\/p>\n<p>Now think of the classic British cafe racer custom scene from the 1950&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s. The sound is&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superbikeplanet.com\/2009\/Feb\/090203caferacer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">More Info&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it funny how specific types of music are synonymous with certain motorcycles? Take the image of two Panhead choppers blasting along on a desert road, two lidless riders with Fu Manchu&#8217;s and wraparound sunglasses&#8211;the soundtrack that comes to mind is Steppenwolf&#8217;s &#8220;Born To Be Wild&#8221;, right? A stretched, chromed, and lowered turbo Hayabusa with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,58,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-music","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}