Harley-Davidson Contract Surfaces

The York Daily Record reported that union workers at the Harley-Davidson Springettsbury Township operations got their first look at a proposed contract that if approved will stop the motor company from relocating the York Vehicle Operations to an alternative site in Kentucky.
You can read the detailed contract highlights HERE.  Briefly, it’s a 58 page document [...]

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Thugs Sell Motorcycles

“When you dine with the devil, bring a long spoon.” — Machiavelli
Having a ‘thug’ like Ludacris anywhere near your marketing campaign may not be a good thing.  Yet, Harley-Davidson has decided having a pitchman who glamorizes a life of guns, violence, drugs and is disrespectful of women is EXACTLY what’s needed to turn around motorcycle [...]

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Harley-Davidson Turkeys Of 2009

As Thanksgiving approaches and families prepare to gather around the table to share turkey and stuffing, the Northwest Harley blog editorial team (me), decided it was time to look back at the announcements and decisions from the motor company that made news this past year for all of the wrong reasons.
This is my list of [...]

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South Park Takes On Harley-Davidson

Life imitates art or is it the other way round?  It turns out the “inconsiderate douche bag’s on Harley’s” are creating noise as they ride up and down the street wrecking everyone’s quite time on South Park.
It’s a protest movement in Season 13, episode 1312, where Cartman calls out a pack of bikers whose loud [...]

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It’s All About Kids

The 8th Annual Musician’s Toy Run Benefit is set for this Saturday, November 7th at Trails End Saloon.   The ABATE/Shriner’s Toy Run is a motorcycle event sponsored by ABATE of Oregon where hundreds of riders take toys to the children at Shriners Hospitals for Children.  The actual Toy Run will take place on December 6th.
Like previous [...]

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Stormy Monday

I was born in Georgia and “eat-a-peach” has always had a special meaning to me.
It was 38 years ago last week when Duane Allman kick-started his Harley-Davidson Sportster on an autumn evening in Macon, Georgia.
It had been only a couple months after the summer release and success of the At Fillmore East album which was [...]

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Harley-Davidson Brings Darkness To Talladega Nights

“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 old [...]

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The Perfect Storm

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 1st) [...]

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Reconsidering Happiness

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 of [...]

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Harley-Davidson Fanaticism Can’t Save Timpanogo

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 [...]

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