{"id":64,"date":"2007-05-08T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-09-01T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T19:35:37","slug":"these-won%e2%80%99t-be-your-grandpas-harleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/these-won%e2%80%99t-be-your-grandpas-harleys\/","title":{"rendered":"these won&#8217;t be your grandpa&#8217;s harleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what we&#8217;ve been able to discern from the few tea leaves scattered about. Change &#8211; big change &#8211; seems to be waiting in the wings for The Motor Company as demographics, competition and environmental regs continue to shape HD&#8217;s destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Might this be the year for the beginning of the end of the air-cooled twin? With two BT radiator &#8211; in-frame coolant? &#8211; displacement versions ready to go, probably.<\/p>\n<p>Big Daddy, with 2450ccs of tub-thumping water-cooled torque, would seemingly raise the bar quite a bit. And if this be the year, one coupled with the dropping of six popular models &#8211; ST (3), DWG, FL and XL883 &#8211; it would open a huge chasm between the original and the clones from the marketing and technology perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>These changes could also signal a larger focus on touring rather than cruising, and if so then another seeming nod to the aging of the profile.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the view from the front porch rocker. We&#8217;re saving the goat entrails for a group slam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what we&#8217;ve been able to discern from the few tea leaves scattered about. Change &#8211; big change &#8211; seems to be waiting in the wings for The Motor Company as demographics, competition and environmental regs continue to shape HD&#8217;s destiny. Might this be the year for the beginning of the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing-and-promotion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfUeo-12","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siebenthalercreative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}