{"id":27166,"date":"2010-01-28T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=27166"},"modified":"2010-01-28T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:32:14","slug":"motorcycle-erik-buell-interview-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=27166","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; Erik Buell Interview Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The demise of\u00c2\u00a0Buell Motorcycles shocked the motorcycle industry. Three months after the news hit, many questions remain. For answers MotoUSA asked the man that started it all 26 years ago, Erik Buell. Anyone who has spoken to Erik Buell knows his passion for motorcycles, and sportbikes in particular. Building the American sportbike has been his professional life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work, and in spite of the crushing news this past October, Buell will continue to support his namesake sportbikes at the helm of Erik Buell Racing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We spoke with Buell\u00c2\u00a0only hours after\u00c2\u00a0Harley-Davidson released its 2009 year-end financial report, which showed the Motor Company &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-usa.com\/682\/5642\/Motorcycle-Article\/Erik-Buell-Interview-Exclusive.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=3398&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The demise of\u00c2\u00a0Buell Motorcycles shocked the motorcycle industry. Three months after the news hit, many questions remain. For answers MotoUSA asked the man that started it all 26 years ago, Erik Buell. Anyone who has spoken to Erik Buell knows his passion for motorcycles, and sportbikes in particular. Building the American sportbike has been his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166","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=27166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27171,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions\/27171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}