{"id":48453,"date":"2011-04-26T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48453"},"modified":"2011-04-26T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:46:25","slug":"motorcycle-arlen-ness-grows-by-homogenizing-v-twin-with-other-motorcycle-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=48453","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; Arlen Ness grows by homogenizing V-twin with other motorcycle markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Arlen Ness \u00e2\u20ac\u201d both the legendary man and the Dublin, California-based company \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has been at the forefront of the Big Twin market for decades in almost every capacity: star custom builder, motorcycle dealer, maker of production customs, and (most important for other dealers) aftermarket manufacturer. So when the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chopper craze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ended in 2007, followed closely by the collapse of the rest of the industry, Arlen Ness felt the sting on multiple levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today the company is growing again. Its catalog for 2011 is two to three times bigger than it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ever been due in part to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dealernews.com\/dealernews\/LATEST+NEWS\/Arlen-Ness-grows-by-homogenizing-V-twin-with-other\/ArticleStandard\/Article\/detail\/717951?contextCategoryId=48475\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>Arlen Ness \u00e2\u20ac\u201d both the legendary man and the Dublin, California-based company \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has been at the forefront of the Big Twin market for decades in almost every capacity: star custom builder, motorcycle dealer, maker of production customs, and (most important for other dealers) aftermarket manufacturer. So when the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chopper craze\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ended in 2007, followed [&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-48453","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\/48453","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=48453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48454,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48453\/revisions\/48454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}