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Robin Bradley
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Pictures by Sara Viney
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additional pictures from EICMA
Harley-Davidson: The hot news at
EICMA was the pre-production design
concept prototype debut for the 60-
degree 'Revolution Max' liquid-cooled
V-twin engined 750 cc 'Bronx'
Streetfighter and 1,250 cc 'Pan
American' ADV - a couple of weeks
before Harley broke cover with them
at the IMS at Long Beach, California.
Harley clearly still has some styling
work to do as the ADV especially
looks a tad gauche in the context of
Europe's mature Adventure Tourer market. Both models look somewhat
heavy, but as a start-point to new platforms, they will give Milwaukee
something more viable in 'More Roads' business opportunity terms than
the LiveWire is doing so far; www.harley-davidson.com
The 77th EICMA Show (Milan, November 6-10) has been
universally judged to have been a "Good Year" by the
market's parts, accessory and G&A vendors. The organizers
are claiming what is almost certainly a greatly exaggerated
turn-out of nearly 800,000 visitors, but the real number,
even if half of that or less, is immaterial - there were plenty
of people to keep the aisles rammed and the booths busy.
With +50 cc PTW registrations in Italy running at +5.9%
(196,956 units) for the first nine months of 2019, and,
having been up consistently for the past few years, the
Italian market is now "bossing it" where Europe's "business
action" is concerned. Here AMD Magazine presents a
selection from the 400 plus vendors who have products for
the V-twin market ...
S&S Cycle: Hosted at EICMA by Parts Europe, the Viola, Wisconsin based
purveyor of 'Proven Performance' has always had an avid following in
Europe - the addition of exhausts to the meaning of the S&S brand has gone
down very, very well with European dealers, custom shop owners and
custom bike builders; www.sscycle.com
www.AMDchampionship.com
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