{"id":53170,"date":"2011-08-11T19:31:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T02:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53170"},"modified":"2011-08-11T19:31:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T02:31:20","slug":"motorcycle-motogp-the-trouble-with-the-ducati-desmosedici-an-exhaustive-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53170","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle MotoGP &#8211; The Trouble With The Ducati Desmosedici: An Exhaustive Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Valentino Rossi&#8217;s move to Ducati was a match made in marketing heaven, the combined selling power of the world&#8217;s most famous motorcycle racer and the world&#8217;s most iconic motorcycle brand would surely prove to be a veritable sales steamroller. Casey Stoner had already proven that the bike was capable of winning races &#8211; though it clearly had a problem with the front end &#8211; and with a seven-time MotoGP champion and the crew that helped him win those titles, success would be quick to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If sales of merchandise are anything to go by, then the move was definitely a success, MotoGP circuits coloring red as Rossi fans stocked up on Ducati gear, the red still tinged with\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motomatters.com\/analysis\/2011\/08\/08\/the_trouble_with_the_ducati_desmosedici_.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>Valentino Rossi&#8217;s move to Ducati was a match made in marketing heaven, the combined selling power of the world&#8217;s most famous motorcycle racer and the world&#8217;s most iconic motorcycle brand would surely prove to be a veritable sales steamroller. Casey Stoner had already proven that the bike was capable of winning races &#8211; though it [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170","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=53170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53172,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170\/revisions\/53172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}