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Recent dealership sales closed by Performance Brokerage Servies ( Irvine , Ca .) include Down Home H-D ( Burlington , NC ) to Phil Mitchell and Dan Roland ; Boneyard H-D ( Winterville , NC ) to Steven Towers ; Los Angeles H-D ( Fullerton , CA ) to Pacific Motorcycle Group from Rodin Younessi ; Patriot H-D ( Fairfax , Virginia ) to PVM Enterprises ( Paul Veracka ) from Sheehy Auto Stores and Redding H-D in California to Rami Yanni and his expanding Wise Riders dealership group .
AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer Earl Bowlby , a 10-time AMA national hillclimb champion , passed away Saturday , Aug . 5 . He was 90 years old . Born on Oct . 27 , 1933 , in Hocking County , Ohio , Bowlby ' s love for motorcycles began as a teenager as he rode his paper route aboard a Whizzer motorbike during the 1940s . Bowlby ' s racing career didn ' t get started until the late 1950s , and instead of hillclimb , he first dabbled in drag racing . In 1960 , Bowlby established his own motorcycle dealership in Logan , Ohio , and began to ramp up his racing activities . Bowlby tried a variety of disciplines , spanning from enduros to hare scrambles , but ultimately found his true calling : hillclimb . Earning his pro license at 32 in 1966 , it took only two years for Bowlby to claim his first national victory with a win in Muskegon , Mich ., in 1968 . From that point forward , Bowlby dominated the national hillclimb scene , claiming ten national titles across his 25 years of professional racing , a record that stood until 2021 . Bowlby also added six Canadian national championships to his trophy case during his career . In 1984 , Bowlby became the first competitor to complete the triple crown of hillclimb by winning the national invitational at Muskegon while claiming the AMA and Canadian national titles . He captured more than 80 AMA national hillclimb wins in total and was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999 - donating his 1967 BSA 650 to the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame collection .
Chinese auto brands are on track to account for just over 50 % of the cars sold in their home market for the first time in 2023 , thanks to a growing dominance in electric vehicles .
In April , Buell Motorcycles recalled certain 2021-2022 1190 RX and SX motorcycles - 30 units in total . The issue was improper installation of an index spring which " may result in the inability to shift into the intended gear or cause the gear to slip without warning ."
<<< Continued from cover logistics solutions to drive growth while simultaneously developing robust , symbiotic relationships up and down the supply chain to accelerate that growth ." In remarks to the Tucker Powersports dealer network , McAllister said : " We know that this will have a positive impact on you and all of our customers . The purchase of Tucker Powersports is Turn 14 Distribution ' s entry into the powersports market , and with that comes more stability and growth for the market . " They will apply many of the principles their company is founded on , including strong relationships with partners and employees , and leveraging its strengths in efficiency , focus and excellence in serving all types of dealers . " For you , the customer , this means better access to more inventory , reduced operating costs through better efficiency , increased transparency , more tools to help you plan and operate your business , more customer service representatives and optimized logistics . " Turn 14 Distribution has a wellearned reputation for listening to its customers and partners . They are known as the distributor who has embraced technology to ensure efficiency while maintaining a humanfacing , customer-first mentality that comes from the core value , ' our customers are royalty .' " In the short-term , your Tucker . com orders will be fulfilled by both Tucker and Turn 14 Distribution , and in time you will be transitioned to the Turn 14 Distribution B2B website and provided with new login information . Please remember that this acquisition is a work in progress involving several moving parts ." The acquisition marks what everyone ' with skin ' in the motorcycle parts and accessory aftermarket will hope will be a decisive turn of events . One that can
draw a line under what has been a turbulent decade-long sequence of instability for the business previously known as Tucker Rocky Distributing . Former owners Lacey Diversified Industries ( LDI ) of Indianapolis controversially claimed to have " merged " TR with the Motorsport Aftermarket Group ( MAG Inc . - owner of Vance & Hines , Performance Machine , J & P Cycles , Kuryakyn et al ) in 2014 . In fact , it was an acquisition that leveraged TR as an asset , loading TR with a debt mountain that the business struggled with ( eventually north of $ 400m ) until a pre-pack Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing in November 2017 . However , the market friction caused by the " merger " and ongoing market atrophy didn ' t halt the decline in Tucker ' s fortunes at that point . The original , pre-pack " distressed asset " Private Equity ownership Group ( Monomoy , Contrarian and Blue Mountain ) had not been able to reverse the decline , eventually " unwinding " the MAG structure and selling business units - most famously J & P Cycles to Revzilla owner Comoto Holdings / J . W . Childs . It had been widely expected that the remaining Tucker owner from the original consortium - Monomoy Capital Partners - was seeking a buyer for parts or all of the business this year . In the past 24 months , it had continued to bankroll Tucker , as CEO Marc McAllister sought to carve the Fort Worth based distributor a place in new markets such as electric twowheelers , despite major lay-offs of sales and purchasing staff and accelerating reports of late vendor inventory payments .
Connected Motorcycle Consortium : First Demo Event
The Connected Motorcycle Consortium ( CMC ) will organize an event in September 2023 to demonstrate several interactions between a car and a motorcycle - interactions where C-ITS applications or Advanced Driver Assistant Systems will help to mitigate the chance of a collision . As a collective effort between manufacturers , suppliers , researchers and associations , the CMC has been working towards integrating Powered Two-Wheelers into the future landscape of connected mobility . The CMC journey began with the launch of the ' Basic Specification ' in 2020 . Since then , the CMC has progressed further and will show results of its research in a demo event at the Dekra Technology Center at the Lausitzring racetrack in northeastern
Germany in September 2023 . " Alongside world-leading motorcycle manufacturers such as BMW , Honda , Ducati , Harley-Davidson , KTM , Suzuki and Yamaha , prominent carmakers including BMW , Honda , Lamborghini and VW will also be participating in the event . The invited guests will have the opportunity to experience the systems live by taking a first-row seat as passengers in one of the cars ." The event will also provide a platform for presenting key findings from the Consortium ’ s accident research , insights into rider behavior and
detailed information about safety applications . ACEM is an associate member of CMC . www . acem . eu www . cmc-info . net
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