“Shake ‘n Bake”… as the Harley-Davidson financial wizards turn off the Speedway lights and come on cost savings ideas like a spider monkey. I blogged in October 2008 that H-D reached an agreement with Chrysler to use part of the Arizona Proving Grounds facility. The facility is located about 25 miles south of Kingman, AZ on the [...]
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Harley-Davidson Brings Darkness To Talladega Nights
Posted in 2010 Models, Brand, Dealer News, Events, Harley, Harley Engines, Harley-Davidson, Motorcycle, tagged Alabama, AZ, AZ Proving Ground, Chrysler, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fast, GM Proving Grounds, H-D, Harley-Davidson, Kingman, Mesa, Movie, Ricky Bobby, Speed, Talladega Nights, Talladega SuperSpeedway, Testomg, Yucca on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Perfect Storm
Posted in Safety, Safety-Conscious, tagged Accidents, Caution, FARS, Fatalities, H-D, Halloween, Harley, Harley-Davidson, Impaired Drivers, Motorcycle, NHTSA, ODOT, OSU, Safety, UO on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It happens this Saturday, October 31st. Halloween falls on a Saturday this year and it’s a particularly deadly night due to impaired drivers. The ODOT Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data reveals a startling fact. It turns out that 90% of the fatalities (10) on Halloween night (6:00 p.m., October 31st to 5:59 a.m., November [...]
Reconsidering Happiness
Posted in Brand, Celebration, Harley, Harley-Davidson, Life Lessons, Living Life, Motorcycle, tagged 4-Piller Strategy, All for the Hall, American Innovation, Buell, Buell Closure, Bummer Zone, CEO, Country Music, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Dealer Failures, Erik Buell, Factory Closure, Finance, Harley, Harley-Davidson, Keith Urban, Keith Wandel, Layoff, Motorcycle, Music, Nashville, Shutdown, Sommet Center, Vince Gill, Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whoa! My two previous posts on the current state of the Harley-Davidson state was clearly like a sad country song in an old rundown coffee shop, yup one of those “bummer zones” so, we need a change of scenery. Speaking of, have you been to Nashville? If you haven’t been to the Country Music Hall [...]
Harley-Davidson Fanaticism Can’t Save Timpanogo
Posted in 2009 Models, 2010 Models, Brand Loyalty, Dealer News, Harley, Harley-Davidson, Latest News, Motorcycle, Motorcycle Sales, tagged Alpine Loop, Bajio Mexican restaurants, Bankruptcy, Blake Roney, Chapter 11, Dave Tuomisto, Geneva Steel, Geneva Steel power plant, Harley, Harley Davidson Credit, Harley-Davidson, Job-Less Recovery, Joe Timmons, Marley's, Monarch Recreation Sales, Nu Skin, Recession, Scrub Oaks, Timpanogo, Timpanogos Harley-Davidson, Tupelo Investments LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Utah, Utah State Tax Commission on October 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »
It’s starting to look a lot like a “job-less recovery”… and the R-word continues to take a toll as bankruptcy filings nationally surged past the 1 million mark during the first nine months of 2009. Many states have similar statistics, but in Utah the U.S. Bankruptcy Court received 10,706 bankruptcy petitions in the first nine [...]
Motorcycle Freedom And NCOM
Posted in 1 Percent, Clubs, Events, Harley, Harley-Davidson, Legislation, Motorcycle, Oregon, Organizations, Outlaw Biker, Washington, tagged 2009, A.I.M., Aid to Injured Motorcyclists, Chairman, Freedom, Harley, Harley-Davidson, Holiday Inn, James “Doc” Reichenbach, Jim Hernandez, Meeting, National Coalition of Motorcyclists, NCOM, October 17, Oregon, Portland, Region 1, Sam Hochberg, Saturday, Seminar, The Defender Program, Trademark Defense Update, WA Coc on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some things are immutable. You’ve got to show up for appointments on time. And speaking of meetings the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM (Region 1)) meeting and seminar is set for Saturday, October 17th in PORTLAND, OR. The venue is the Holiday Inn (Portland Airport) at 8439 NE Columbia Blvd., Portland OR 97220. Speakers at [...]
Blogging Timeout
Posted in Harley-Davidson, Living Life, Motorcycle, tagged Ambition Unfulfilled, Bad Behaviour, blog, Bloggers, blogging, closet journalist, Cross-Roads, FOM, Harley, Harley-Davidson, Link-baiters, Motorcycle, NWHB, Sabbatical, SPAM, Taking a break, Timeout, Trolls, Wallow on the Web, WOW on October 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95% of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to WOW (wallow on the web), where they become public remnants [...]
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