American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 248 March 2020 | Page 26

Indian Announces European
Flat Track Series for 2020
LED motorcycle lights brand
ProBEAM by Custom Dynamics
has announced support for Latus
Motors Racing and rider James
Rispoli for 2020 in both the AFT
Production Twins and AFT Singles
classes. David Pribula, owner of
Custom Dynamics, said: "Rispoli
proved he is a contender with
his efforts last year on the track
and we are looking forward to
an exciting year of racing with
him and the entire LMR team."
AFT and Yamaha announced
an expansion of their
partnership, joining AFT's
family of Official OEM
Partners for 2020 and
offering generous
contingency prizing for 2020
totaling $444,550 across all
three classes - the largest
such package thus far for the
upcoming season. Yamaha
will also return as the
entitlement sponsor of the
2020 Yamaha Atlanta Short
Track at Dixie Speedway on
March 28 - its U.S. company's
hometown race. Kenny
Roberts raced in flat track
racing for Yamaha in the
1970s and Cory Texter will be
defending the number 1 plate
in the AFT Production Twins
class.
AFT has renewed a multi-year
partnership with Full Spectrum
Power as the Official Battery of
AFT racing - providing its
premium battery technology for
use within AFT's raceday
operations. "Various essential
pieces of competition-related
equipment from timing and
scoring to the ever-important
on-track safety lights will all be
powered by Full Spectrum
Power's unparalleled
technology."
American Honda Motor Co.
has announced a renewal of
the official partnership
between the powersports
industry leader and AFT that
will introduce an expansion
of its Honda Talon
experiential program at all
rounds of the 2020 season. In
2019, American Honda
partnered with AFT to bring
Honda's revolutionary sport
side-by-side to AFT fans
across the country, and the
Talon was named the Official
Sport Side-by-Side of
American Flat Track.
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Indian Motorcycle is seeking to
reinforce its investment in the growth
of European motorcycle sport with the
Dirt Track Riders Association (DTRA)
and has announced the race schedule
for the 2020 Indian Motorcycle
European Flat Track Series.
Following a successful inaugural series
in 2019, Indian Motorcycle has
worked with the DTRA to select events
that embrace the spirit of Flat Track
racing's growing scene across Europe,
ensuring that the 'Indian Motorcycle
Flat Track Series' championship is
accessible and exciting for a wide
range of rider abilities.
"In last year's action-packed
Hooligans, Gary Birtwistle took the
win on a Ducati Scrambler, ahead of
Indian Motorcycle rider Leah
Tokelove's consistent riding
throughout the year to secure second
in the overall standings, with Krazy
Horse teammate Lee Kirkpatrick
rounding out the European Hooligan
Podium in third overall.
"Three hugely popular classes will
allow entries ranging from the
thundering 750 cc+ multi-cylinder
'Hooligan' road-based machines, such
as Indian FTR 1200 and Scout, to the
open-entry 'Pro Class' dominated by
lightweight DTX based machines and
a growing pre-1975 'Vintage Class'.
"All classes cater for first-time
amateur and Pro riders alike, with
circuits catering for mixed ability,
including fast 1/2-miles, tight short
tracks and a TT, the championship
series will showcase some of the best
races in Europe to promote the
European Flat Track scene and its
riders on a global scale.
www.dirttrackriders.co.uk
Indian Motorcycle European Flat Track Series:
Classes: Hooligan, Vintage & Pro (Open class)
Series Events: (four rounds with the three best results to count)
Round 1: 2nd-3rd May, Hells Race, Holland – Light Shale Short-Track - open to all classes. Held at
this well-established event at the Dirttrack Lelystad Stadium, this is a fantastic event to
open the series.
Round 2: 6th-7th June, Greenfield TT, United Kingdom – Dirt-Track TT Course - open to Pro and
Vintage classes only. Greenfield TT incorporates a spectacular jump section which is
unsuitable for the Hooligan road-based machines, it also makes up a round of the UK
DTRA Indian Motorcycle Flat Track Nationals Series.
Round 3: 13th June, El Rollo at Wheels and Waves, San Sebastian, Spain - Dirt Short-Track - open to
all classes. The El Rollo dirt-track race at Wheels and Waves is a massive event in the
European motorcycle calendar.
Round 4: 18th-20th September, Krowdrace, Parchim, Germany - Shale 1/2 Mile - open to all classes.
Run for the first time in 2019, Krowdrace is expanding in its second year and will be
running at this excellent 1/2-mile venue.
Individual event prizes: (on top of local event prizes) Winner Pro - 200 euro/Winner Hooligan -
150 euro/Winner Vintage - 150 euro.
RevZilla/Cycle Gear Owner
Acquires J&P Cycles
Philadelphia based Comoto Holdings,
the parent company of RevZilla and
Cycle Gear, has acquired J&P Cycles
from the Motorsport Aftermarket
Group (MAG) - the former operations
business for brands such as Tucker
Powersports, Vance & Hines,
Performance Machine and Kuryakyn.
Described as "the industry’s largest
omni-channel retailer of aftermarket
products for the American V-twin rider,
with this acquisition, Comoto Holdings
becomes the definitive market leader
in yet another robust segment of the
powersports aftermarket-products
industry."
J&P Cycles will continue to operate as
a distinct and differentiated retail
brand under the daily operational
leadership of industry icon and long-
time J&P Cycles veteran Zach Parham,
AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE DEALER - MARCH 2020
who joins the Comoto executive
leadership team as President of J&P
Cycles.
"We are thrilled to welcome Zach and
the talented team from J&P Cycles into
the Comoto family of brands," said
Ken Murphy, CEO of Comoto Holdings.
"J&P’s decades-long legacy of
exceptional service and selection are
hallmark tenets of each and every
Comoto retail brand and will remain a
driving force behind our continued
high-growth in the years to come."
"J&P Cycles was built on obsession
with customer service and offering the
best product selection for riders," said
Zach Parham, President of J&P Cycles.
"Comoto shares these same values.
Each retail brand in the Comoto family
has complementary strengths and we
are excited to leverage those strengths
Zach
Parham
to take J&P Cycles to the next level."
"As a platform for many of the
industry’s most storied retail brands,
our commitment to our customers is to
preserve the legacy brand-attributes
that matter most to them, while also
unlocking the full selection, service
and savings benefits our customers
deserve when shopping within the
Comoto family of brands," said
Murphy.
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