{"id":1412,"date":"2010-05-10T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T00:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2010-05-10T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T00:52:18","slug":"u-s-highland-to-begin-motorcycle-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/u-s-highland-to-begin-motorcycle-production\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Highland to Begin Motorcycle Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushighland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Highland<\/a>, have you? Apparently they make motorcycles engines and now they&#8217;re planning to make motorcycles&#8211;a lot of them&#8211;in the near future. This photo is one of their promotional shots, of the Desert-X.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/BlogPix\/DesertX.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"The U.S. Highland Desert-X\" \/>What I&#8217;m able to learn is that this is a Swedish company that moved to the U.S. two years ago. They set up shop in Oklahoma, in the town of Mounds. I&#8217;ve never heard of Mounds, either.<\/p>\n<p>The company currently has 30 employees but says it will be hiring 300 when it goes into production. They plan to build both street and off-road bikes, although it is expected that making motors for other companies will remain a large part of their business.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when other manufacturers are struggling it&#8217;s good to see someone with bright hopes for the future. Let&#8217;s wish them success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m5d9-Motorcycles-101-Combatting-handgrip-vibration\" target=\"_blank\">Motorcycles 101: Combatting handgrip vibration<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Get yourself to the hills and be uplifted, assuming you&#8217;ve got some good knobbies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never heard of U.S. Highland, have you? Apparently they make motorcycles engines and now they&#8217;re planning to make motorcycles&#8211;a lot of them&#8211;in the near future. This photo is one of their promotional shots, of the Desert-X. What I&#8217;m able to learn is that this is a Swedish company that moved to the U.S. two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,13],"tags":[303,304],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dirt-biking","category-bikes","tag-motorcycle-manufacturers","tag-us-highland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}