{"id":76657,"date":"2013-03-16T10:40:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76657"},"modified":"2013-03-16T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:40:51","slug":"motorcycle-there-is-method-behind-harleys-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=76657","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle &#8211; There is method behind Harley&#8217;s madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Why would anyone buy a Harley-Davidson?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s a constant refrain, often querulous, from my many sport bike riding buddies, their simple skepticism hiding all manner of derogatory implications. Sometimes, it merely infers a general antipathy towards anything cruiser. At other times, it&#8217;s to convey a more brand-specific enmity. But the intimation is the same: Harleys are anachronisms compared with their latest double overhead frammich-valved road rockets. The insinuation is always that the Milwaukee iron is lesser, its customer based deluded and somehow the motorcycling world is not right for the brand&#8217;s incredible popularity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Experts posit all manner of rationalizations for The Motor Company&#8217;s popularity from the simplistic\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driving.ca\/research-car\/news\/There+method+behind+Harley+madness\/8098868\/story.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>&#8220;Why would anyone buy a Harley-Davidson?&#8221; It&#8217;s a constant refrain, often querulous, from my many sport bike riding buddies, their simple skepticism hiding all manner of derogatory implications. Sometimes, it merely infers a general antipathy towards anything cruiser. At other times, it&#8217;s to convey a more brand-specific enmity. But the intimation is the same: Harleys [&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-76657","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\/76657","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=76657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76658,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76657\/revisions\/76658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}