{"id":8009,"date":"2009-04-07T21:06:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T04:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2009-04-07T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T04:21:34","slug":"motorcycle-electric-it%e2%80%99s-electricthe-norton-electra-project-provides-motorcyle-lovers-with-a-way-to-conserve-resources-and-looks-to-develop-an-electric-motorcycle-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8009","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Electric &#8211; It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Electric&#8230;The Norton Electra Project provides motorcyle lovers with a way to conserve resources and looks to develop an electric motorcycle design."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As spring approaches, motorcycle enthusiasts will hit the road with a familiar rumbling thunder. If you find yourself in Highland County, Va., however, do not be surprised if you notice a soundless, silver motorbike whizzing by you. As Americans search for ways to conserve resources, lawyer and motorcycle enthusiast Brian Richardson has built an electric motorcycle in his kitchen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A longtime lover of motorcycles, Richardson said he annually hosts a large motorcycle rally on his sheep farm, on which visitors can camp and hear live music during the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The main point &#8230; is to allow people to come out to Highland County and camp on a working sheep farm,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His idea to build an electric motorcycle came about in September 2008&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As spring approaches, motorcycle enthusiasts will hit the road with a familiar rumbling thunder. If you find yourself in Highland County, Va., however, do not be surprised if you notice a soundless, silver motorbike whizzing by you. As Americans search for ways to conserve resources, lawyer and motorcycle enthusiast Brian Richardson has built an electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009","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=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8023,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}