{"id":56754,"date":"2011-11-20T18:50:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=56754"},"modified":"2012-02-27T20:07:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:07:31","slug":"2012-bmw-k1600gtl-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=56754","title":{"rendered":"2012 BMW K1600GTL Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the day prior to riding the K1600 super tourer in South Africa, I had several opportunities to ask BMW engineers questions about how it compares with Honda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gold Wing, a veritable icon of the luxury-touring class.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like a Gold Wing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say. In fact, the GL1800 BMW last had for comparative purposes was several years old, and they couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recall the last time anyone had ridden it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But how could BMW not benchmark the segment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s class leader?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle.com\/manufacturer\/bmw\/2012-bmw-k1600gtl-review-90469.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>In the day prior to riding the K1600 super tourer in South Africa, I had several opportunities to ask BMW engineers questions about how it compares with Honda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gold Wing, a veritable icon of the luxury-touring class.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No, this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like a Gold Wing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d say. In fact, the GL1800 BMW last had for comparative purposes [&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-56754","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\/56754","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=56754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61076,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56754\/revisions\/61076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}