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NEWS
BRIEFS
Global assembly of Honda
motorcycles and cars was stopped by
a cyber attack that disrupted vehicle
inspection protocols and other
processes at its plants around the
world on Monday 8 June. Internal
servers in Tokyo were hacked with a
suspected ransomware virus. Most
operations were said to have
resumed within 24 hours, but along
with car plants in the US and Turkey,
the huge Honda motorcycle
manufacturing hubs in India and
Brazil were still offline 48 hours later.
Parts Unlimited is back as
supporting partner of the
rescheduled 2020 MotoAmerica
series that got underway at the
4-mile Road America track at
Elkhart Lake, Wi. in May. "Parts
Unlimited has been a partner of
ours since we started and were
actually one of the first
companies that came on
board," said MotoAmerica
President Wayne Rainey.
The AMA has named former Bonnier
Corp. motorcycle magazine journalist
Matthew Miles as its Director of
Communications. Miles spent 29
years as an editor on Cycle World
and will report to AMA Chief
Operating Officer James Holter.
Avon Lake, Ohio based thermal
barrier specialist Design
Engineering, Inc. is celebrating
25 years making heat and
sound control products for the
powersports industry. Over the
years the company has
designed and created unique
"thermal tuning products" for
the automotive and
powersports racing and
performance aftermarkets, as
well as related industries such
as aviation and even
locomotive. In the custom
motorcycle world, DEI is the
'Go-To' exhaust wrap.
Indian Motorcycle was recorded as
being in 12th spot in market share
terms in Germany for the first five
months of the year with a 1.3%
share/742 units sold - one spot
behind Royal Enfield (1.56%
share/889 units sold YTD). H-D was
in 6th spot with an 8.44%
share/4,798 units sold - its best seller
is the Street Bob, followed by the
Sport Glide and XL 1200 X.
'King Of The Baggers' Rescheduled
Originally slated to take place on July
11, the Drag Specialties 'King of the
Baggers' race at the legendary Laguna
Seca, California racetrack will now
happen on the weekend of October
23-25 during the rescheduled
MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest at
Monterey.
MotoAmerica and Drag Specialties
combined to make Bagger class road
racing a reality as the highly
customized, ever-booming V-twins
invade the WeatherTech Raceway
Laguna Seca for the first-ever 'King of
the Baggers' event.
Held in conjunction with the
rearranged 2020 MotoAmerica Series,
the Drag Specialties 'King of the
Baggers' will be part of "a weekend
packed full of motorcycle sport and
lifestyle." Additionally, Classic Cycle
Events will produce a motorcycle swap
meet and show at WeatherTech
Raceway Laguna Seca in conjunction
with the Superbike Speedfest at
Monterey.
That means seven classes of racing will
take to one of the most famous
racetracks in the world, the iconic
2.238-mile circuit that's nestled in the
hills of the Monterey Peninsula - with
the Baggers joining the premier
MotoAmerica Superbike, Supersport,
Liqui Moly Junior Cup, Stock 1000,
Twins Cup and Heritage Cup racing.
The 'King of the Baggers' will crown a
champion from an elite group of V-
twin vendors that includes the likes of
Alloy Art, Barnett Tool & Engineering,
The W3 was the brainchild of
performance legend Jim Feuling.
Limited to 550 units in the United
States only, H-D has blown the dust off
its limited edition playbook and is
leveraging the February 2019 Stacyc
acquisition with a limited edition of
IRONe electric balance bikes for
children.
The IRONe12 and IRONe16 electric
balance bikes "provide a custom ride
for riders between the ages of 3 and 7
and under 74 lbs, featuring a custom
graphic treatment and painted in the
same Yellow Fuse color that is also
Bassani, Feuling Parts, Legend
Suspensions, MJK, Performance
Machine, Saddlemen, S&S Cycle,
Slyfox Performance, The Speed
Merchant, Trask and Vance & Hines.
Each team has accepted the challenge
to build a racing machine that will
showcase their individual specialty in
the market
AMA Hall of Famer Don Emde, who
won the Daytona 200 as a privateer in
1972, will be Grand Marshall for the
'King of the Baggers' race and will
parade the newly restored Feuling W3
around Laguna Seca before the race -
corkscrew 'n all!
In winning at Daytona, Emde gave
Yamaha its first ever Daytona 200 win,
rode the smallest ever displacement
race bike to a win there, took the first
ever victory there for a 2-stroke and
created father/son history - his father
Floyd Emde took a flag-to-flag 200
win on the beach at Daytona in 1948
IRONe Limited Edition
available on the LiveWire."
Designed to help catalyze the
experience of riding for the first time,
"balance bikes offer an early learning
tool for hand-eye coordination and
help children develop skills while
having fun." They can be used to coast
and brake in the non-powered mode
before graduating to the powered
mode and the throttle.
"The Limited Edition IRONe12 and
IRONe16 are impressively custom and
extremely limited," said Jon Bekefy,
- the last time it was won on an Indian.
As the name suggests, the W3 was the
brainchild of performance legend Jim
Feuling and was, and now is again, a
three-cylinder, air-cooled, two-valve,
triple-gear driven cam 4" bore by 4"
stroke 150 cubic inch monster. The low
center of gravity and 90-degree layout
always had a reputation as an
excellent engine, producing smooth
power from what were, essentially,
three Twin Cam cylinders joined in
unholy matrimony!
Thanks to Luke Leatherman, Cameron
Pallet and the team at Feuling Parts
(the Oceanside, California modern day
iteration of the performance parts
business that Jim Feuling founded),
the W3 will ride again, having made a
restored debut at the Drag Specialties
Dealer Expo in February at Louisville,
Ky., in February.
Alex Fox, founder of SLYFOX
Performance, added: "I'm honored to
have my brand be a part of this firstever
event of this magnitude. That
corkscrew section will be something to
keep an eye on. This day will be one for
the history books."
"This is for the fans and for the brands
who love to build and ride - racing is
part of Saddlemen's heritage, and
we're honored to be on the starting
grid with our moto family," said David
Echert, CEO of Saddlemen.
www.motoamerica.com
General Manager of Brand Marketing
at Harley-Davidson Motor Company.
"No other Harley-Davidson shares the
Yellow Fuse color exclusive to
LiveWire, which is the halo of the H-D
EV portfolio."
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