{"id":36428,"date":"2010-09-02T06:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T13:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36428"},"modified":"2010-09-02T21:46:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T04:46:06","slug":"the-great-recession%e2%80%99s-latest-victim-cycle-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36428","title":{"rendered":"The Great Recession\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Latest Victim: Cycle News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The handwriting had been on the wall for a while: insiders knew that Cycle News, the quasi-official organ of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s racers, industry insiders and die-hard enthusiasts, was struggling with the double-whammy of competition from new media and an imploded industry. So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why hearing Cycle News has shut down as of August 31, 2010 was saddening, but not surprising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Cycle News story began in 1965 when Chuck and Sharon Clayton purchased an existing L.A.-area motorcycle publication and renamed it. It quickly got a reputation for providing the best and most timely coverage of Southern California\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand later national\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmotorcycle racing. Sharon (herself an enthusiastic rider) would cover events herself, but the Claytons soon began relying heavily on a network of freelancers, training an army of moto-journalists who would go on to careers at other publications. By the early 1980\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s,\u00c2\u00a0 Cycle News had\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycledaily.com\/2010\/09\/the-great-recessions-latest-victim-cycle-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handwriting had been on the wall for a while: insiders knew that Cycle News, the quasi-official organ of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s racers, industry insiders and die-hard enthusiasts, was struggling with the double-whammy of competition from new media and an imploded industry. So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why hearing Cycle News has shut down as of August 31, 2010 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,8,44,45,46,68,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fmx","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-roadracing","category-scooters","category-street-riding","category-stunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36428","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=36428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36430,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36428\/revisions\/36430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}