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Zodiac ‘Bikers Book’ #41
BRIEFS 2018 supplement
NEWS
Much derided and failed
American tech start-up Skully,
who planned to sell the AR-1
HUD (Heads Up Display)
helmet following a crowd
funding campaign, is kind of
making a comeback with a
new company called Skully
Technologies stating that they
will “Make it Right” and
produce a newly re-branded
Skully Fenix helmet.
The Antique Motorcycle Foundation
has elected long-time industry
veteran Mark Mederski as its next
president. He is the foundation’s
fourth president in its 10-year
history. Mederski replaces Jon
Radermacher. After many years
with the American Motorcyclist
Association, Mederski was the
executive director of the Motorcycle
Hall of Fame Museum in
Pickerington, Ohio. He currently is
the special projects director at the
National Motorcycle Museum in
Anamosa, Iowa.
It would appear that the biggest and
best ‘Bikers Book’ catalog just wasn’t
big enough for Zodiac! The new full
color 2018 supplement to the Zodiac
‘Bikers Book’ issue #41 is now
available and contains over 3,500 new
and exciting parts and accessories,
including all of those published in their
monthly dealer newsletters.
Taken together, the 2018 supplement
and the issue #41 ‘Bikers Book’
contain tens of thousands of parts
Dutch portfolio equity
investor ABN AMRO
Participations has bought a
majority stake in the
Dutch/German exhaust
specialist The Jekill and Hyde
Company. Founded in 1997 by
Jacques van de Kerhof, J&H
develops exhaust systems
with an electronically
adjustable valve.
Dutch apparel manufacturer Rev’It!
and Italian accessory designer
Rizoma have joined forces, with
Rev’It! USA taking over exclusive
rights to distribute the Italian hard
parts brand’s products in the
United States and Canada from the
Rev’It! USA headquarters at
Brooklyn.
numbers, and new products in the 336
pages of the 2018 supplement include
Odd Concepts parts from Sweden,
stock replacement parts from V-Twin
Manufacturing for side valves,
Knucklehead, Panhead, Shovelhead
and Evolution, award-winning Italian
made Mupo inverted front forks and
Öhlins conventional style front forks.
Where appropriate, much of the
Zodiac offer is EU regulation
compliant, including new E-approved
mufflers and complete exhaust
systems from Freedom Performance,
Vision-X led light units and Dutch
made B2 lifts. Additional new products
from well-known brands include RST
adjustable brake and clutch levers, the
latest additions to the Arlen Ness
program, plus thousands of new and
established old and late-model parts
and accessories from all over the
world.
www.zodiac.nl
Textron, owner of Arctic Cat,
has reported increased
revenue of $3.5 Bn for their
third quarter, up by +7.2
percent. Revenues in its
Industrial Segment, which
includes Arctic Cat, were
$156m for the quarter, largely
due to the impact of acquiring
Arctic Cat; segment profit was
down $17m.
Slated for January 14 – 16 at
Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry in
the UK, Motorcycle Trade Expo
2018 reports that over 90 percent
of available booth space was
already sold by the end of
September.
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