{"id":70440,"date":"2012-09-29T08:58:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70440"},"modified":"2012-09-29T08:58:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:58:06","slug":"video-2012-kawasaki-zx-14r-vs-2012-suzuki-hayabusa-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70440","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; 2012 Kawasaki ZX-14R vs. 2012 Suzuki Hayabusa LE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the world of hypersport bikes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the fastest production motorcycles in the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a clear heavyweight battle raging between the Suzuki Hayabusa and Kawasaki ZX-14R. When the Hayabusa was first introduced in 1999, its 1299cc engine quickly established itself as the king of speed. A lack of competition helped the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBusa retain its title until 2006 when Kawasaki retaliated with the 1352cc ZX-14.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The slugfest continued in 2008 when both models received updates; Suzuki bumped the Hayabusa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s displacement to 1340cc by increasing its stroke, while the Kawasaki kept its 1352cc mill but refined it and added\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle.com\/shoot-outs\/2012-kawasaki-zx14r-vs-2012-suzuki-hayabusa-le-video-91432.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and complete road test<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NEmuuDI8Am4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NEmuuDI8Am4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/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 world of hypersport bikes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the fastest production motorcycles in the world \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a clear heavyweight battle raging between the Suzuki Hayabusa and Kawasaki ZX-14R. When the Hayabusa was first introduced in 1999, its 1299cc engine quickly established itself as the king of speed. A lack of competition helped the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBusa retain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70440","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=70440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70442,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70440\/revisions\/70442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}