The Big Hog Daddy Tri-Glide Hauler

Released just in time to haul your new Harley-Davidson Tri-Glide Classic to motorcycle events, Ford teamed up with Harley to produce the first ever F-450. 
Let’s call it the “Big Hog Daddy” trike hauler of the road!
We’ve seen the Ford Harley-Davidson editions in F-250 and F-350 versions, but never before has the colossal F-450 come in [...]

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Urban Trikes

Harley-Davidson built a Servi-Car (a three-wheeled utility motorcycle) from 1932 to 1973.  Then for the 2009 model year Harley introduced the new Tri-Glide Classic. 
Customers who are turned off by the thought of sliding atop a motorcycle have more options these days, but few options exist for small displacement (below 400cc) trikes.  
I’m speculating here, but Harley [...]

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Chicken Little Strikes Street Vibrations

The story of Chicken Little is an allegory about alarmists, which concludes with an admission about ill-founded apocalyptic predictions.
Thinking about how “The Sky is Falling“…on my return ride from Street Vibrations yesterday…I couldn’t help but wonder if the speculation, rumors, concerns, worry and numerous citizen calls created an apocalyptic “environment” for the rally? 
I was in [...]

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Harley-Davidson Advertising Overload

Have we become immune to marketing ploys? 
Here comes another one in my inbox (slightly modified by yours truly).  Have you notice how Harley-Davidson has put the CVO operations in charge of advertising?  I speculate this is true because those Scream’n Eagle upgrades on all its advertising lately has me totally overloaded at how fast and [...]

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Giddy Up

It’s here! Street Vibrations 2008 starts Thursday … and at least for me, anyway I’m headed out on the road and the journey starts tomorrow. 
With part time hobbies of blogging and photography I try to “cover” the various rallies, especially any event I attend.  You’d think Harley-Davidson would comp an oil rag or an oil [...]

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Sex On A Motorcycle

Okay, received some feedback to “lighten up” after my post on the financial bail-out debacle.
I thought long and hard about some lighter topics and ideas — then it came to me — now that we know David Duchovny (of X-Files fame) has checked into rehab for sex addiction it’s no longer inappropriate to discuss motorcycle [...]

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Slow Down For Survey Zones

The first principle of creating a good survey is FOCUS.  By having specific objectives ahead of time you can expect to obtain usable information from a survey.  Those objectives drive the questions and every question will in fact tie back to the specific objective.
Disguised as a survey I was solicited by Harley-Davidson’s “research team” for [...]

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Wax Job

Waxing the paint on your motorcycle can make a difference in how your bike looks and how long your paint lasts.  With so many newer bikes using “pearl-ess-ness” paint a good wax job will only enhance the luster and I’ve found that a good wax job removes all the things you can’t see in/on the paint [...]

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The Greedy, The Corrupt, The Stupid

I’m not an advocate for bailouts.  I think it means responsible people (like me!) will L-O-S-E and end up giving my hard earned money to gamblers, cheats and liars.  It doesn’t matter if you’ve been paying your mortgage….it’s now YOUR job to pay for others lack of responsibility. 
It’s reckless and we need to shout out [...]

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Respect The Badge Or The Gun

From the movie Righteous Kill the tag line is “There’s Nothing Wrong With A Little Shooting As Long As the Right People Get Shot“…sure that’s Hollywood, but it seems this could be applied to the law enforcement investigation of Seattle Detective Ron Smith whose felony assault charges for shooting a member of the Hells Angels [...]

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