A few weeks ago Harley Davidson said they were about 18 months from a production ready electric motorcycle. Today, they announced an investment in Alta Motors for the purpose of collaborating on electric technology and new product development. Alta Motors’ current products are nothing like the LiveWire prototype Harley introduced earlier, so it will be […]
Category: Motorcycle Business
Is motorcycling expensive or affordable? Yes. Wait, … what? The simple fact is that you can spend as much or as little as you want to and enjoy it either way. The latest and greatest factory machinery is often beautiful to look at with all of the performance the pros demand, but if you want […]
When Harley Davidson announced the closure of the Kansas City manufacturing plant, they also gave notice that Project LiveWire would be coming to market in 18 months. LiveWire, the new Harley Davidson electric motorcycle, is a corporate moonshot, they’re going for the high tech end of the motorcycle industry, a decidedly different environment from that […]
Whether the rest of the economy is doing better or not, Harley Davidson is having problems selling new motorcycles and, as a result, they’re consolidating manufacturing with the closure of the Kansas City plant in 2019 and moving production to York, PA. Harley-Davidson worldwide retail motorcycle sales fell 6.7% in 2017 compared to 2016. The […]
Over the past year, the economy has been booming. If you have a 401(k) or an IRA for retirement and you’ve been paying attention, you’re probably grinning about how much it’s grown. Companies are giving bonuses and wage increases, big companies are investing huge sums in the US, unemployment is way down, so it’s worth […]
Two years ago we wrote about the Yamaha MWT-9, a sport bike with two wheels up front, it looked mean and nasty, in a good way. At that time, leaning 3 wheelers had been out for years in scooter form and some companies were building conversions for big tilting touring rigs, but the obvious question […]
Ural has just introduced the Ural Baikal, named after a frozen Russian lake that hosts a semi-annual 400 mile Ice Run. Just think, riding through drifting snow, sub zero wind chills and over the ice just for the fun of it. Saddle up! Of course, you probably won’t and most likely, neither will anyone else […]
The upcoming January Mecum motorcycle auction in Las Vegas has a really wonderful line up of bikes for sale (Really, you should check it out!), but their featured attraction is the sale of the Excelsior Henderson brand name and associated intellectual property. A rather colorful write up extols the illustrious history of the brand and […]
John Parham, founder of J&P Cycles, passed away early this year and his family is auctioning off personal items he had been collecting for quite some time. It’s a pretty diverse lot of Harley Davidson memorabilia, vintage parts, motorcycles, bicycles, outboard boat motors and quite a few things that were sold by license under the […]
This time it looks like Buell is really done for good. Erik Buell Racing Motorcycles factory liquidation starts June 7th and everything is up for sale, … really, EVERYTHING! You can even buy the motorcycle brand! I wonder what companies might want to put that in their pocket. Lots of machines and tooling, production equipment, […]