{"id":41005,"date":"2010-12-01T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41005"},"modified":"2010-12-01T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T01:24:44","slug":"norton-is-coming-to-the-america-%e2%80%93-former-ducati-ceo-heading-operations-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41005","title":{"rendered":"Norton is Coming to the America \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Former Ducati CEO Heading Operations in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The historic British motorcycle brand Norton is set to return to the United States with its Commando 961\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s next year. Heading up Norton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s push into the US market is former Ducati North America CEO Dan Van Epps, who also served time with Ducati in Bologna, acting as the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Director of Overseas Markets and Head of Product Marketing. Starting in May 2011, Van Epps and his crew will begin importing Norton Commando 961 Sport, Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Racer, and SE models. Built off the classic Norton lines, the Commando 916 series features a 916cc fuel-injected parallel twin motor, along with \u00c3\u2013hlins suspension and Brembo brakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have been producing the new 961 Commandos for almost two years, and the orders have been well beyond our most enthusiastic expectations. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asphaltandrubber.com\/news\/norton-coming-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/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>The historic British motorcycle brand Norton is set to return to the United States with its Commando 961\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2s next year. Heading up Norton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s push into the US market is former Ducati North America CEO Dan Van Epps, who also served time with Ducati in Bologna, acting as the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Director of Overseas Markets and Head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41005","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\/41005","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=41005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41006,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41005\/revisions\/41006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}