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Pics & words by Robin Bradley

Parts Unlimited & Drag Specialties 2023 Spring NVP Product Expo

Louisville , Kentucky , in January 2023 was the final brick that rebuilt the wall . The 2020 show was the last to be staged in the powersports market before we all ran into the brick wall of a pandemic that is only now starting to fully unwind …
The pandemic experience will leave a permanent shadow on our market , some aspects of which will be good - the 24 months of being able to sell
pretty much everything and anything is unlikely to come around again in our lifetimes . Some aspects of it are potentially bad
though . Quite apart from the loss of loved ones and friends , the worry in the powersports industry now is whether the customers that fueled those 24 months of sales can be retained ? With all the other potential issues bubbling under - inflation , supply chain , war , interest rates ( it ’ s a wellrehearsed list ), the generally agreed prognosis for the year ahead was that " flat " would be the most likely best result the parts and accessories market
can hope for . However , there was still positivity in the aisles , still business being done , and there were still crowds . Record crowds in fact . It proved to be the best attended Expo to date with 2,121 dealer attendees and an overall attendance of over 2,800 . With a 40 % increase in exhibit space , there was more room for the record number of attendees as well as many new vendors to the Expo . The Expo weekend kicked off on
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S & S Cycle : Eric Bondy , VP of Sales and Business Development , told AMD : " Winter Power Package offers have proven very popular again this season . Dealers can order our 100 " and 110 " Big Bore kits for 1999-2007 Twin Cam upgrades , or 124 " and 128 " upgrades for the 107 " and 114 " M-8 models from 2017 to 2020 . But they are not the largest displacement we offer . That accolade falls to our Black Granite 132 " kits for 114 " stock engines - including CVO models ; www . sscycle . com
BS Battery : Following many years of success in Europe with Parts Europe , the Paris , France based battery and charger specialist recently signed a Drag Specialties and Parts Unlimited exclusivity deal with LeMans for the United States . As the company ' s sales in North America grow , owner Benjamin Sebban has hired former Yamaha USA man Frank Pittman to head up the brand and provide local support for the distributors ' sales executives and their dealers . In other news , after five successful years , BS Battery has renewed its sponsorship of 2022 MotoGP Vice Champion Fabio Quartararo ( 23 ), who rides for the Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP team ; www . bs-battery . com
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