Harley Makes Nice For New Year

In less than 5 minutes on the internet you’ll notice that Harley is using a barrage of online tools, advertisements and video such as YouTube to push its recently announced guarantee to provide full value on trade-ins of its Sportster motorcycles. Who are they kidding?  This is the mother of marketing gimmicks wrapped in company [...]

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Harley-Davidson And Inauguration 2009

As you likely know the presidential inauguration is coming up on Tuesday, January 20th.     Harley-Davidson of Frederick, MD has been busy working for months preparing 12 motorcycles that will lead the parade.  The motorcycles are part of the famous “Power V”, a v-formation that leads the inaugural parade through the streets of Washington, D.C. [...]

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Rally Days Are Painful Taxpayer Nights

I like attending motorcycle rallies, but pretending everything is just wonderful in the “land-of-rally” is akin to an ostrich head in the sand.  For decades municipalities have viewed motorcycle rallies as revenue generating opportunities.   They pass along all or much of the costs to the commercial entities as possible.  I’ve been to several rallies during [...]

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Bird Watching And Harley’s

I remember attending the season opener and having high hopes, but now the injured Seattle Seahawks season is truly over.  As a ‘Hawks’ fan it was rough year.  Have you ever wondered where the team name originated?  According to sportsecyclopedia, the Seahawks nickname “was the result of a fan contest that drew 20,365 entries and suggested [...]

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Soundtrack Made Moments

I’ve written about motorcycle enthusiasts who travel back roads with musical amplification on a dazzling summer morning.  But, the editors of WorldHum, the online site of the Travel Channel, took on the task of naming the greatest travel songs of all time.  What’s excellent and notable is they took the time to track down YouTube videos of [...]

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Black Monday

Is a widely used reference to October 19, 1987, the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped a record 508 points, or nearly 23%. Disarray in the financial markets resulted from a combination of trade deficits, budget deficits, and potential government regulation of mergers and issuance of junk bonds. My reference to Black Monday is [...]

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