{"id":50743,"date":"2011-06-17T20:17:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T03:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50743"},"modified":"2011-06-17T20:24:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T03:24:58","slug":"motorcycle-2012-erik-buell-racing-1190rs-first-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50743","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; 2012 Erik Buell Racing 1190RS | First Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Erik Buell is right: Everything would have been different if Buell Motorcycles had built this bike first, as he intended, instead of the quirky 1125R that parent company Harley-Davidson demanded in 2007. Motor Company management feared competing with Japanese and European manufacturers head-on, so rather than green-light a pure superbike they commissioned the offbeat 1125R. That bike&#8217;s failure to connect beyond a small group of outlier enthusiasts was the beginning of the end for the Buell brand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Erik always believed he had the engineering and technological prowess to take on foreign competition. Now liberated from Harley and\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclistonline.com\/firstrides\/122_1109_2012_erik_buell_racing_1190rs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures &amp; 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>Erik Buell is right: Everything would have been different if Buell Motorcycles had built this bike first, as he intended, instead of the quirky 1125R that parent company Harley-Davidson demanded in 2007. Motor Company management feared competing with Japanese and European manufacturers head-on, so rather than green-light a pure superbike they commissioned the offbeat 1125R. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50743","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\/50743","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=50743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50754,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50743\/revisions\/50754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}