Harley-Davidson’s Tea Party

Appropriate or not many of the news outlets capture footage of corporate moguls emerging from private jets and images of lavish hotels, expensive gifts being showered on senior executives and clients at corporate events and then they turn right around as a “muckraker” and help fuel the fiery populist rage whipping across this country.  We’ve [...]

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Laptop Hunter Redefines Deceit

Way back in ‘05 the boyz of OCC (not to be confused with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) showed us what they do best with a Microsoft operating system crash while designing the custom choppers for America’s corporations.  Microsoft hired OCC to build their own name inspiring Microsoft SQL Bike.
Now Microsoft has [...]

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Costco And Harley-Davidson Partnership

I love Costco and I hate Costco.
My displeasure is often traced to other people who shop there?  They say membership has its privileges and I’ve seen the people who flaunt it to no end. A person is lucky to not get run over by a Range Rover or Lexus SUV in the parking lot.  You [...]

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Limited Edition Biker Clothing

There are many who think the new Harley-Davidson Iron 883 (Dark Custom) is the most beautiful bike sans clothing, with U.S. press fawning all over the “back-to-basic” motorcycle.
Enjoying my Friday morning cup of “bucks” I thought how H-D marketing should offer limited editions of the machine with new clothing bundles to increase motorcycle sales.  H-D [...]

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Motorcycle Sales Pessimism

Harley-Davidson is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2009 financial results April 16.
Even if you’ve been leveraging “guru” Cramer (Mad Money) to help make a fortune — who in my view has no more idea of what is going to happen tomorrow than the average chimp. Pessimism runs high especially after the motorcycle manufacture took the [...]

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A Spring Ride

The Rose City 250 is an annual charity benefit and one of the premier runs each Spring.   The 19th Rose City Oregon 250 will be held on Sunday, April 5, 2009.  
The charity event has been a major success and this year the 250 will raise money for 2 different organizations: the Providence Brain Institute, and [...]

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Motorcycle Club Suppression

Imagine for a moment you purchase a new Harley Iron 883.  Before pulling away from the dealer to enjoy a nice spring day ride you slip on a black leather riding vest with a large Harley-Davidson embroidered logo.  Near the bottom of the logo there is a Milwaukee, WI rocker.  Your buddies have similar vest’s [...]

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Chernobyl Motorcycle Ride

Next month marks the 23rd anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster in Ukraine. 
I stumbled onto Elena’s site several years ago, but had misplaced the URL until just recently.  She travels a lot on her Kawasaki Ninja (ZZR-1100) and one of her favorite riding destinations leads North from Kiev, towards the Chernobyl “dead zone”, [...]

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The Mail Room Of Life

Henry Rollins speaks not in drops and dribbles.  When he opens his mouth, declarations spew out that condemn, deride and praise in a single breath.  He gives people an opinion or unique take on things from pop culture to politics.
Who is Henry Rollins?  Best known to many as the 80’s front man for punk rock [...]

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The Oregon Trail

Westward, Ho!  In the old days west coast settlers would cross the Snake river ford near old Fort Boise and travel across what would become the state of Oregon. Today Interstate 84 roughly follows the original Oregon Trail from Idaho to the Dalles.
Do you remember the computer game Oregon Trail?  Gameloft has taken the original and built upon the details as [...]

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