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Harley-Davidson’s new CEO has refocused the company on its core mission. See what that means for the iconic motorcycle maker.

In early 2020, with the company under stress from Wall Street and with a demographic challenge looming as it struggled to attract new riders, Harley-Davidson CEO Matt Levatich stepped down, replaced on an acting basis by board member Jochen Zeitz, who eventually was named CEO. Zeitz swiftly moved to replace Harley’s growth strategy with a retrenchment around […]

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Harley-Davidson Inc (HOG) SVP & CFO John A Olin Bought $256,770 of Shares

from https://www.gurufocus.com SVP & CFO of Harley-davidson Inc (30-Year Financial, Insider Trades) John A Olin (insider trades) bought 13,500 shares of HOG on 05/13/2020 at an average price of $19.02 a share. The total cost of this purchase was $256,770. Harley-Davidson Inc produces and sells heavyweight motorcycles, as well as offers motorcycle parts, accessories, and

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Apex Predator Is One Sportster Harley-Davidson Should Start Making

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com At the beginning of April, Harley-Davidson announced the winner of this year’s King of Kings competition, a mashup of the best 15 previous winners of the Battle of the Kings. Its name is Apex Predator, and with it we’re kicking off a series that will bring to light over the

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Ural Factory Reopening

Our Team at Redmond HQ and our partners around the world have been super busy, remain healthy and continue to take the necessary precautions to operate safely. We hope you and your close ones are weathering these times as well as possible and finding those silver linings along the way. 🙂 Here’s the latest news:

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Honda Gold Wing: World’s first motorcycle with Apple CarPlay now also supports Android Auto

by Abhilasha Singh from https://www.financialexpress.com The method to update software for Honda Gold Wing is planned to be available in the mid of June 2020. Honda has said it will introduce Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration to more models eventually. Honda Gold Wing cruiser motorcycle will now come with Android Auto, the update for

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Spectacula Motorcycle Is Proof Some Builds Are Better Than Custom Harleys

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Absolutely awesome. These are the words used by a German custom bike garage to describe the Specula, a motorcycle the like of which the European continent had never been gifted with before. Used to seeing incredible motorcycle builds coming from the U.S., the world is at times blind when it

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Elon Musk Sues California County, Vows to Move Tesla to Texas

Will the Tesla CEO make good on this threat? BY PATRICK GEORGE ood morning and welcome back to Speed Lines, The Drive’s morning roundup of what matters in cars and transportation. Today we’re talking about Tesla firing back at California, and the rest of the auto industry’s cautious reopening of North American car factories. ‘I’m Not Messing

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Harley-Davidson GT One Is a Special Breed of FXDR

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com/ Generally, the GT moniker is reserved for a particular breed of cars, built specifically to offer performance, thrills, and looks to die for, even on long distance drives. But it is used on motorcycles as well to advertise the machines’ capability of handling long trips and high speeds simultaneously. There

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5-Ball Racing Shop

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One-Off Carbon Fiber Harley-Davidson LiveWire Going Under the Hammer

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com The LiveWire electric motorcycle is not proving to be the killer product Harley-Davidson was hoping for, at least for now. Introduced in 2019 as the first electric bike made by an established player in the industry, the LiveWire needs all the boost it can get to compete with similar products

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Electric motorcycles made and designed in Singapore set to rev up Southeast Asia

by Zhaki Abdullah from https://www.channelnewsasia.com SINGAPORE: Although the COVID-19 pandemic had affected their initial plans, two Singapore-based start-ups are still set on revving up efforts to produce their own electric motorbikes. This comes as Singapore relaxed its rules on electric motorcycles in April, allowing high-powered motorbikes with power ratings of more than 10kW to be

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Custom 1981 Suzuki GS650 GL Gets New Life as the Beach Cruiser

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com/ Try as you might, you will not find many high-quality customized Suzukis out there. But when luck strikes, something like the GS650GL in the gallery below might pop up. The GS series was born as the bike maker’s first proper range of 4-stroke engined motorcycles in the late 1970s. In

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Harley-Davidson El Dorado Is Heritage Softail Gone Low and Green

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com When it first used the Softail frame for one of its bikes decades ago, Harley-Davidson had no way of knowing what it would begin to stand for, and what an influence this type of bike would have on the motorcycle world. In its own backyard, Harley’s Softails, described in Milwaukee

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Hubless Verge TS Electric Motorcycle Is Here to Finnish Off Harley’s LiveWire

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Despite the increasing interest of the customers in electric motorcycles, established bike makers are still reluctant to jump on this new mobility train. Only one of them, arguably the world’s most famous, announced a mass-production electric motorcycle. That’s the LiveWire, shown by Harley-Davidson in 2019, should have been a game

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