{"id":52989,"date":"2011-08-08T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52989"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:10:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:10:32","slug":"motorcycle-2011-sturgis-rally-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52989","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; 2011 Sturgis Rally First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After three states and almost 1000 miles, Motorcycle USA landed in Sturgis yesterday evening, just in time to get some initial impressions from the scene. Rolling into town on the 14, we noticed the rigs of a healthy cross section of OEMs at the second Sturgis exit. People anxious to see and ride the latest models can get their fix at one stop as Can Am, Star, Kawasaki, Victory and Harley-Davidson are all set up there. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been flogging the 2012 Victory Cross Country Tour for the last three days ourselves, with a full review coming when we get back. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to tip our hat too much, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been enjoying our time in the bike\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cushy saddle, sheltered from the wind thanks to its taller windscreen and new fairing lowers. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been cranking up the tunes while\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-usa.com\/800\/10739\/Motorcycle-Article\/2011-Sturgis-Rally-First-Impressions.aspx\" 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 three states and almost 1000 miles, Motorcycle USA landed in Sturgis yesterday evening, just in time to get some initial impressions from the scene. Rolling into town on the 14, we noticed the rigs of a healthy cross section of OEMs at the second Sturgis exit. People anxious to see and ride the latest [&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-52989","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\/52989","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=52989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52990,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52989\/revisions\/52990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}