Performance. It’s always a favorite topic of discussion. We all want to get the most out of our bikes but engine management can be overwhelming for most bikers. Fortunately, there are a lot of products available, more of them being able to tune and manage your engine for improve performance whatever the custom add-on parts [...]
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How To Tune And Modify Your Motorcycle Engine.
Published by April 29th, 2012 in Books, Builders, Customs and Editorial.Harley-Davidson Power Trip Sweepstakes. Win The Trip Of A Lifetime For You And Your Friend.
Published by April 28th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.It’s called the Power Trip Sweepstakes. You just enter at HD Powertrip the email of a friend who rides something other than a Harley. Harley will send your friend an email on your behalf. Your friend accepts your invitation by entering their information. You’re both entered to win! No purchase required. The winners get to [...]
Fusion Style Cafe Racer By Metro Motorbike
Published by April 27th, 2012 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Taking inspiration and the best of parts from different brands of motorcycles, what I called a Fusion Style approach, designer David Ballinger created a timeless daily-rider motorcycle mixing for reliability a BMW R100 airhead air cooled engine, for performance a Ducati front end and for attitude and style, either a Cafe Racer or Harley-Davidson Fat [...]
New Black Ice Finish For Nine-Spoke Harley-Davidson Wheels
Published by April 27th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Wheels.Harley-Davidson launches a proprietary treatment called “Black Ice” producing a highly reflective surface with incredible depth. The new Nine-Spoke Cast Wheel in Black Ice (P/N 43300114 17-inch front, P/N 40900111 16-inch rear; $549.95 each) is the latest custom wheel set from Harley-Davidson®. While Black Ice may look like it is black chrome, it is not [...]
Inaugural Iowa Grand Motorcycle Rally. July 26-29, 2012
Published by April 27th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.After the disappearance of so many shows and rallies, nice to hear about a new one. One of the men behind the first Iowa annual rally is no other than Jay Allen, creator of the World’s Biggest Biker Bar, The Broken Spoke Saloon. Last Spring, Jay created Jay Allen Productions, a rally production company that [...]
Jesse James. New Outlaw Garage TV Shows. New West Coast Choppers Gear.
Published by April 26th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Merchandise.A few news that Jesse just gave me. 1- Outlaw Garage TV Show On Discovery. When you watched this show on Monday April 9 in which Jesse James was rebuilding a 32 Ford Roadster, it was not yet the beginning of a series. The Discovery Channel wanted first to measure viewership… The show ratings [...]
Pickard Raked Triple Tree For Custom 23″ Front Wheel On Harley-Davidson Bagger
Published by April 25th, 2012 in Builders, Chassis, Customs, Editorial and Wheels.As expected, the introduction of the tall front wheels (above 21″) to replace the Harley stock size, has created a new market for triple trees. After Arlen Ness, Pickard Wheels now introduce a 6-degree triple tree letting you install a 23″ front without having to cut/modify your frame. As important, Pickard conceived it such a [...]
Harley-Davidson First Quarter 2012. Retail New Motorcycle Sales Up 20.3 Percent Worldwide and 25.5 Percent in U.S.
Published by April 25th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.As expected, this morning Harley-Davidson reported strong gains in earnings and dealer new motorcycle sales for the first quarter of 2012. As buyers become more comfortable with spending and interest rates remain low the consumer focus has shifted from used to new motorcycles. A flash of warm weather in winter in the US has also [...]
Harley-Davidson World Ride Starts June 24. Million Mile Monday Expanding to Two Days.
Published by April 25th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.The Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.), invites all Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders around the world to celebrate the freedom of the open road during the 2012 Harley-Davidson World Ride. Launched in 2008, Million Mile Monday has been an annual event on the last Monday of June that brings thousands of Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders together in a collective [...]
The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo And Her Bike
Published by April 25th, 2012 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.The films The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are based on the novel of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and became a worldwide phenomenon. Eisbeth Salander (played by Rooney Mara) is a 24-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker with the hard-earned wisdom of [...]
World’s Oldest Unrestored Indian Motorcycle Sells For $155,000
Published by April 25th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.Last Saturday a 1903 Indian motorcycle sold at auction for $155,000. It was announced by the auction house as the known oldest motorcycle from Indian that began selling bikes in 1902. It is one of only three built in 1903.The auction was won via a telephone bid from a motorcycle collector from New York City [...]
Leaked Report. Harley-Davidson US Sales Up 25% During 1st Quarter 2012.
Published by April 24th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.Harley-Davidson is scheduled to release first quarter 2012 earnings tomorrow Wednesday April 25. But after information leaked from a research update by the Motorcycle Industry Council became public, Harley-Davidson was obliged yesterday to confirm in a federal filing that retail sales of motorcycles in the United States rose 25.5 percent in the first quarter of [...]
Harley-Davidson Museum Offers Historic Images For Public Purchase
Published by April 24th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.An opportunity for you to engage in Harley-Davidson’s history, The HD Museum launched a new website Harley-Davidson Images where you can order a wide range of Art from the H-D Museum® Archives. Are offered several reprint options, allowing customers to find photos they want and have them printed on various media, including stretched canvas, wooden signs, [...]
Customized Harley Sportster Still Serviceable By Harley Dealers
Published by April 23rd, 2012 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.Many custom motorcycle lovers have this dilemma. How radical can they go with their new Harley-Davidson without voiding all factory warranties and keeping their bike serviceable at any official Harley dealership. Florida shop Lightning Rod Motorcycles brings an answer to this question when you intend to customize a Sportster. The “Trackster” featured here is still [...]
Show Me Your Office. Roland Sands.
Published by April 22nd, 2012 in Builders, Customs and Editorial.It makes life much easier if not only you do what you love but also if you go to work to a place custom made to feel like a living place, an extension of your home where you can surround yourself with your preferred personal pieces of furniture, objects, books, etc. On the second floor [...]
2012 Cannonball Endurance Run. September 7 To 23, 2012
Published by April 22nd, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.In 2010, you loved to follow in my website the brave riders of the Cannonball Endurance Run who proved that antique motorcycles could be put again to the test of crossing the country from east to west coast. This year, only motorcycles built in 1929 or earlier can compete and of course must be powered [...]
2012 March Revenue Of US Motorcycle Dealers Up 20%. The data comes from ADP Lightspeed, an organism maintaining a database of over 1 billion sales records from motorcycle industry dealers. Every night, over 1400 Lightspeed dealers automatically transmit the day’s Parts, Service and Sales information to a collective database held at the Lightspeed offices Salt [...]
Who doesn’t want to see a pretty woman flying on a pink Ducati and wearing a pink and black body suit to match…. Ok it’s for a commercial. Still, worth watching. Enjoy.
World’s Biggest Motorcycle
Published by April 19th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.Another strange record to enter the Guinness Book Of Records. Supposedly the largest motorcycle in the world, weighting 8818 pounds (4000 kg or 4 tons), measuring 32.81 ft long (10 meters) and 16.4 ft high (5 meters). It is powered by a 5700 GM motor, features cables with an OD of 7.2 ft (2.2 meters) [...]
When unveiled on February 1st, 2012 ,many qualified the new Harley Slim as just another Fat Boy. As its name indicates, the Slim is exactly the opposite of Fat. It’s, a stripped-down Softail with narrow styling, pared down to its essential elements, almost no chrome and lots of details inspired from the parts used on [...]
Volkswagen’s Audi Said Set to Buy Italian Ducati for $1.1 Billion
Published by April 17th, 2012 in Builders, Editorial and Events.An agreement was reached for German Volkswagen’s Audi to buy Italian motorcycle manufacturer Ducati from its owner Investindustrial SpA for about $1.1 billion (860 million euros) including debt of about $260 million (200 million euros.) The deal, minus debt, should be signed today and would value Ducati at about seven times last year’s earnings before [...]
Convincing Harley-Davidson Print Magazine Ad?
Published by April 17th, 2012 in Builders and Editorial.Harley-Davidson wants you to personalize your bike only with genuine custom Harley parts, not custom after-market ones. So, they tell you that a Harley customized with non-Harley parts is not a Harley-Davidson motorcycle anymore. Something that they will never dare to say openly in a US advertising campaign, custom builders being the brand “best friends” [...]
Tornado Outbreak. A Message From Jerry And Kathleen Covington At Covingtons Customs.
Published by April 16th, 2012 in Builders, Customs, Editorial and Events.As most you living in the USA know, last Saturday and Sunday, more than 120 tornadoes were reported in a two-day outbreak in Oklahoma. One of the twisters (classified EF-3 tornado generating speeds of 136 to 165 mph) caught many unaware in Woodward, a town of 12,000 people, when storm sirens failed to sound after [...]
Having distributed their radical Softail type and rigid frames in the US during many years I know very well custom builders Peter & Anita Penz from Austrian based shop Penz Custombikes. Evidently, for self promotion of their proprietary frames, they have to use their multiple own chassis as platforms for all their creations, their challenge [...]
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