International Dealer News IDN 120 Aug/Sept 2014 | Page 40

news ROOM Record half year sales for BMW BMW Motorrad has reported an all-time six-month high for sales in the first half of 2014, with worldwide sales of 70,978 motorcycles and scooters. The total sales are an increase of 9.3 percent compared to the equivalent period of the previous year. Heiner Faust, BMW Motorrad Head of Sales and Marketing: "We have achieved an all-time six-month high in the first half of this year. Never before have we sold this many vehicles in the first six months of a year. With an increase of 9.3 percent in the first half of 2014, we remain on course to achieve an all-time sales high for the year as a whole. “The best-selling model remains the R 1200 GS. Almost 15,000 units were supplied to customers worldwide during the first six months of the year. This is followed in second and third place by the two new Boxer models R 1200 GS Adventure and R 1200 RT with 9,708 and 7,420 units respectively. The R nineT launched in March Heiner Faust, BMW Motorrad Head of Sales and Marketing says "we have achieved an all-time six-month high in the first half of this year" surpassed the expectations with sales of 4,114 vehicles." www.bmw-motorrad.com Andreani Suspension Center School ANDREANI Group International, the Italian street and off-road bike suspension specialist, is to hold another of its acclaimed series of technical seminars. It is being held in the impressive surroundings and facilities of their Italian headquarters on September 17th and 18th, 2014 - just a few kilometers from the Misano Adriatico road race track, at Pesaro, near Rimini on Italy's Adriatic coast. The courses, in English, are aimed at professional mechanics and motorcyclists who want to improve and update their suspension tuning knowledge with "tips and secrets regarding street and off-road suspension set-up brands such Öhlins, Sachs, Showa, Kayaba, Marzocchi, Paioli and WP". The one or two days courses have both theoretical and practical ANDREANI GROUP Pesaro (PU), ITALY Tel: [phone] [email protected] www.andreanigroup.com sessions, allowing participants to personally try techniques and tools, including Andreani designed special machines like their acclaimed suspension test bench, a unique inhouse designed electrical motor powered simulator with vacuum pump and spring tester. Andreani say that their instructors are the same professional technicians who give track-side assistance to World Superbike Championship, MotoGP, Motocross and Supermoto world championship riders. The company says that they "will share their knowledge based on twenty years working side by side with factory teams and riders from all over the world". Travel and accommodation assistance is available.