{"id":35496,"date":"2010-08-14T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T16:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35496"},"modified":"2010-08-14T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T16:41:21","slug":"motorcycle-sport-touring-shootout-ducati-multistrada-vs-honda-vfr1200f-vs-kawasaki-z1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35496","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; Sport-Touring Shootout: Ducati Multistrada vs Honda VFR1200F vs Kawasaki Z1000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What kind of bike do you need to go sport-touring?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"vsCaption\">You say tom-a-to, someone says tom-o-to. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Your riding buddies say they can tour on any bike. You say most touring-oriented bikes have a sporty side and therefore make the best sport-tourer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oops! Did we just allude to one of the more controversial, even incendiary, topics in modern motorcycling?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, when someone utters the word sportbike, the likely response is a GSX-R, an R6, a Honda CBR, or some such thing. But ask a rider to describe his or her ideal of a sport-touring machine, and the answers are wide ranging\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle.com\/shoot-outs\/2010-oddball-sporttouring-shootout-ducati-multistrada-vs-honda-vfr1200f-vs-kawasaki-z1000-89863.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of bike do you need to go sport-touring? You say tom-a-to, someone says tom-o-to. Your riding buddies say they can tour on any bike. You say most touring-oriented bikes have a sporty side and therefore make the best sport-tourer. Oops! Did we just allude to one of the more controversial, even incendiary, topics [&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-35496","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\/35496","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=35496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35498,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35496\/revisions\/35498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}