Motorcycle Resolutions

It’s been a roller coaster of a year. Full of accomplishments, but also a collision with the economic crisis has left many of us feeling cautious, nervous, and frustrated.
When I was younger there was little emphasis placed on making New Year resolutions. Resolution taking wasn’t actively encouraged yet as I progressed in years the concept became [...]

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Naughty Or Nice

Independent of which list you may have ended up on this year, may your Christmas holiday be filled with peace and joy. 
Thanks for spending time with this blog over the last year and I want to extend best wishes through-out the New Year.
Be good to each other…
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First Day Of Winter

Yesterday was the first day of winter.  Fierce winter storms and unusually cold temperatures smothered the northwest these past few days.  Portland, OR recorded the most snow fall on record since 1968!
Sure it’s not like the -40 degrees which northern Maine is experiencing, but none the less it’s cold with gusting winds, power outages, more [...]

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It’s Only Money

Harley-Davidson Inc. (ticker symbol HOG) is cashless in Milwaukee.
The BizTimes Daily reports Harley-Davidson Warehouse Funding Corp. and Harley-Davidson Credit Corp. subsidiaries’ received $500 million last week in a loan advance from its lenders, which included JPMorgan Chase Bank (recently purchased WAMU) because of their inability to securitize bike loans.
Harley has burned through $221 million for the 9 [...]

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Karen Davidson Influence On Harley

Men have dominated the world of motorcycles.  Sure women on Harley’s date back to the early 1900’s and the first women’s motorcycle group in America was Motor Maids, which started in the 1930’s.   However, in the past 10 years or so women riders have skyrocketed.  Women love motorcycles, it’s a fact! Women riders during the [...]

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Greatest Motorcycle Chase Movies

All right motorcycle movie fans, here’s your chance to weigh in.   
Since first watching McQueen flea the German’s in The Great Escape I’ve always been intrigued by motorcycle chases.  So, I’ve pulled together this little poll where you can select what you think is the greatest motorcycle chase in movie history?
Photo courtesy of Sony/Tri-Star Pictures.
 
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Canada’s Famous Blue Dress

Remember Julie Couillard, the woman who never received the Attire 101 memo and exposed a significant portion of her cleavage during the Canadian government swearing-in ceremony at Rideau House?  Her upper torso made all the newspapers. 
Previously I posted about Ms Couillard’s arrangement with Stéphane Sirois (Hells Angels) and how resolutely she brought down Maxime Bernier [...]

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Milwaukee Harley Stock Gimmick

We all know that winter places an icy grip on motorcycle purchases and often chills sales.   It’s just a slow time even in a good year let alone during the “mother” of all financial deep freezes.
But, along comes a motorcycle sales concept that I don’t understand.  Buy any 2009 Harley-Davidson motorcycle from Chaz Hastings Milwaukee [...]

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Triggers For Change

Harley-Davidson announced that Jim Ziemer (CEO) informed the board he will retire in 2009. 
A 40-year career that started by pushing a broom and running an elevator at Harley-Davidson at the age of 19.  He is one American CEO who started at the bottom.  However, Ziemer elects to retire at a time when the motorcycle company is [...]

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Speed Versus Steed

Harley-Davidson announced earlier this year that they were looking for female film makers who could capture the sense of empowerment, freedom, and adventure that is inherent when women get behind the handle bars of a Harley in a short film. The winning film maker would win: $5000 cash, a hi-definition video camera, a Harley-Davidson leather [...]

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