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FEBRUARY 2021 (# 259 )
COMMENT - Are You Wired Yet ?.................................. 4
As ' REWIRE ' gives way to ' HARDWIRE ', Robin Bradley wants to know if Harley ' s ' Plan to Have a Plan ' will amount to anything this time around , or just result in yet another CEO being expunged from the record .
EASTERN SPIRIT GARAGE - A Polish lovely ! .... 58-59
XS 650 from ESG , Poland , is one of two bikes featured in AMD this month that should have been at the AMD World Championship that never was in Cologne in October 2020 .
PAUL LANGLEY - S & S needs a new President ! ...... 64
After six hugely successful years in which challenges have been overcome and opportunities embraced , Paul Langley is to leave his role as President of the Viola , Wisconsin based masters of ' Proven Performance '. What next for the industry veteran - yard work or a knighthood ?
PROGUIDE : The new , the best and the must-haves ...................... 34-54 p . 36 p . 44 p . 34 p . 50
Mid-USA - it ' s that time of year again ! .......................... 12
The Hazelwood , Missouri based distributor and own brand specialist unveils its 37th catalog with over 1,200 pages of the great and the good , the chrome and the cool .
TUCKER POWERSPORTS - Road Shows & Dealer Training .............. 18
Deprived of its planned collaboration with AIMExpo at Columbus , Ohio , in January , Tucker Powersports is taking it to the track - NASCAR race tracks to be exact - with its first four 2021 Road Show dealer appreciation event dates .
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