{"id":51969,"date":"2011-07-16T14:27:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51969"},"modified":"2011-07-16T14:27:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T21:27:40","slug":"street-motorcycles-indian%e2%80%99s-new-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=51969","title":{"rendered":"Street Motorcycles &#8211; Indian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After miraculously surviving five ill-fated resurrections since its initial demise in 1953, America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s original motorcycle brand has found a more worthy and hopefully permanent home. Polaris Industries, Inc.\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmakers of Victory motorcycles, popular four-wheel off-roaders, snowmobiles and other specialty vehicles\u00e2\u20ac\u201dacquired the King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mountain, North Carolina -based business from British private-equity firms Stellican Limited and Novator Partners LLP for an undisclosed sum last April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why Polaris? Only a handful of companies have\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclistonline.com\/newsandupdates\/motorcycle_news\/122_1108_indians_new_chiefs\/index.html\" 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>After miraculously surviving five ill-fated resurrections since its initial demise in 1953, America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s original motorcycle brand has found a more worthy and hopefully permanent home. Polaris Industries, Inc.\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmakers of Victory motorcycles, popular four-wheel off-roaders, snowmobiles and other specialty vehicles\u00e2\u20ac\u201dacquired the King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mountain, North Carolina -based business from British private-equity firms Stellican Limited and Novator Partners [&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-51969","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\/51969","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=51969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51970,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51969\/revisions\/51970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}