American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 217 August 2017 | Page 14

NEWS
BRIEFS
Motul has announced a
partnership with Jason Paul
Michaels and his Standard
Motorcycle Co-op, Florida’s
“first and only Co-op
motorcycle garage and
educational facility focused on
creativity, collaboration and
friendship among the Co-op’s
users.” Motul will be providing
a free oil change to all Co-op
members.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin based
motorcycle covers and luggage
(Willie & Max brand) manufacturer
Dowco has hired former Tucker
Rocky luggage category manager
Dave Komoroski as National
Account Manager for their
Powersports and Equipment market
segments. He will manage OEM,
brand and contract manufacturing
business segments for Dowco.
Brookfield, Connecticut based
blender Spectro Oils has
announced that it is now the
‘Official Oil’ of the Sturgis
Buffalo Chip campground. As
part of the partnership,
Spectro Oil
changes will be BOOTH#
available at the
newl y built
1515
Sturgis Rider
Superstore at the Buffalo Chip.
Kuryakyn is offering investment cast
aluminum finned spark plug covers
with wrinkle black finish to fill the
visible gap on the cylinder heads of
Milwaukee Eight Touring models.
The complete Cycle Care line
of motorcycle cleaning and
detailing products is now
available through Biker’s
Choice. Founded in 1992 by
CEO Andy Meadors to develop
products that were “in
compliance with the cleaning
and preserving instructions
written in the manuals of
motorcycle, windshield, seat
and tire manufacturers,” the
line includes bike washes, mud
release, dry detailers, and
polish for paint, chrome,
leather and metal.
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Like old, but just new
German old style and vintage parts
and bikes specialist W&W Cycles has
added more Cannonball brand
products for Flatheads, Knuckleheads
and Panheads.
W&W say they are authentic
reproductions, ranging from engine
cases, cylinder heads, cylinders and oil
pumps to internals such as lifter
blocks, camshafts and timing gear
sets. All Cannonball parts are precision
manufactured to the stock tolerances
in Germany, though the materials now
used “were the stuff of dreams in the
old days.”
The program is named as an homage
to the legendary record runs of Erwin
George “Cannonball” Baker, who in
1914 thundered across the
continental United States, coast to
coast, in an at that time hard to believe
11 days. The line also includes leaf
spring forks, handlebars, WR-style
tanks, mag wheels, brakes and
fenders.
The Cannonball engine housings are
finished and detailed like the originals,
so they will unobtrusively blend into an
old engine, with both case halves
carefully matched and featuring pre-
installed case bushing which are
line-bored and lapped for standard
rollers; cam bushings are already in
place too, reamed to standard size.
The selection includes cases with a
smooth, uniform glass bead-blasted
finish and cases with an NOS (new old
stock) finish. The latter means the
finished cases are not bead-blasted
but treated in a traditional process,
which gives them the appearance of
new factory cases that have been
sitting on the shelf for 50 years –
perfect for those “patina
restorations”. All cases feature laser
engraved CB production numbers,
which are registered and filed.
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Indian ink – but not as we know it
Well, this has got to be a first!
Indian Motorcycle has taken the
opportunities for brand related
Tattoo Art to an altogether new
level with what is claimed to be
the world's first Tattoo Ink
made from motorcycle parts.
No, really - read on.
Artist and co-founder of
Nocturnal Ink, Franco Vescovi,
made the ink by carefully
extracting a sample of tire
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rubber obtained from a burn-
out performed on his modified
Indian Scout by freestyle moto-
crosser Carey Hart. To ensure
safety, toxins were removed and
the carbon was sterilized before
Carey’s son’s name, Jameson,
was tattooed on his neck -
taking the whole concept of
"motorcycles in the blood" in
an entirely new direction!
The Indian Motorcycle Ink will
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be used exclusively at Vescovi’s
Vatican Studios in Lake Forest,
CA, and at four Hart &
Huntington tattoo shops in Las
Vegas, Orlando, Niagara Falls
and Nashville beginning July
11th until they run out, and the
ink is gone forever.
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inked
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