American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 186 January 2015 | Page 12

2015 MCS Clothing and Lifestyle catalog MOTORCYCLE Storehouse (MCS) is preparing for 2015 with the launch of the latest edition of its ‘Clothing and Lifestyle’ catalog. This edition sees the catalog almost doubling in size from the previous 256 pages to over 500, which feature over 7,000 products. Highlights in this edition of the catalog include Schott jackets, which include the original leather biker jacket as worn by Marlon Brando in the film The Wild Ones, Rokker jeans, the Roland Sands Design clothing line and the apparel product line from Italian helmet manufacturer DMD. MOTORCYCLE STOREHOUSE Bedum, NETHERLANDS Tel: [phone] [email protected] www.mcseurope.nl New General Manager for MAG Europe MARTIN Szlagowski has been named as the new General Manager of MAG Europe, a subsidiary of Motorsport Aftermarket Group (MAG). Szlagowski will oversee MAG Europe’s continued growth as the largest distributor of V-twin aftermarket products in the UK. He Joins MAG Europe from Warr’s Harley-Davidson, where he spent 25 years and during which time he was involved with running Warr’s race team alongside former MotoGP rider Jeremy McWilliams. Such was his success in that role that the team was invited to race the Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson XR1200 Series at the Indianapolis MotoGP round in 2013 and 2014. “I am very happy to be joining such an established and well known company with a portfolio of fantastic brands and look forward to the road ahead,” said Szlagowski of his change of employers. MAG EUROPE Denton, Manchester, UK Tel: [phone] [email protected] www.mageurope.eu Corbin launches ‘Visual Seat Configurator’ CORBIN'S newly launched Visual Seat Configurator allows potential purchasers to configure a seat and see how it looks before placing an order. The Corbin seat line is very complex as even the simplest option has over 43 thousand possible material combinations. A more complex seat like the Dual Touring Saddle has potential custom combinations that number hundreds of millions. "This has been at the top of our ‘to-do’ list for nearly a decade now," said Greg Hurley, Director of Marketing at Corbin. "It has also been a highly requested feature from our customers as a means of visualizing a custom seat before ordering. Unfortunately the technology to do this properly has been beyond our reach... until now.” "We knew basically what we wanted and had a concept of how it should work, but getting it done was 12 AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE DEALER - JANUARY 2015 a task. We were pretty close a couple of years ago with an Adobe Flash application, but then Apple released the iPad that doesn't support Flash and that changed the story for everyone. Because of the device's popularity, we had to ditch our existing Flash development and start completely from scratch,” said Hurley of the development of the Configurator. The new Configurator uses texture mapping, where it takes photographs from Corbin and then lets the user define every aspect of the seat and builds a photo-realistic rendering. Corbin states that like its seats, there are virtually no design limits and millions of potential combinations. CORBIN SADDLES Hollister, California, USA Tel: [phone] [email protected] www.corbin.com www.AMDchampionship.com