{"id":50892,"date":"2011-06-20T19:41:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50892"},"modified":"2011-06-20T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:41:50","slug":"there-are-no-sacred-cows-harley-davidson-patents-cylinder-head-cooling-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50892","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Sacred Cows: Harley-Davidson Patents Cylinder Head Cooling System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rumors that Harley-Davidson has been eying a liquid-cooled motor design have always been in abundance, and 10 years ago we saw the company test the waters of that pool with the Porsche-engineered lump that was found in the V-Rod. While the VRSC line may not have been as big of a success compared to the other models in Harley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s line-up, the water-cooled bastard child of Milwaukee still seems to sell in the tens of thousands each year, even after nearly a decade of only cosmetic revisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Faced with an aging demographic, an uninspired motorcycle line-up, and 21 takes on the same motorcycle design, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a push internally at Harley-Davidson to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asphaltandrubber.com\/news\/harley-davidson-cylinder-head-cooling-system-patent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures &amp; 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 rumors that Harley-Davidson has been eying a liquid-cooled motor design have always been in abundance, and 10 years ago we saw the company test the waters of that pool with the Porsche-engineered lump that was found in the V-Rod. While the VRSC line may not have been as big of a success compared to [&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-50892","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\/50892","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=50892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50894,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50892\/revisions\/50894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}