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Harley-Davidson lays off staff, cuts salaries, amid coronavirus outbreak

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from https://www.reuters.com April 15 (Reuters) – Harley-Davidson Inc said on Wednesday it had temporarily laid off most of its global production employees and implemented salary cuts in a bid to lower costs as the coronavirus pandemic has hurt its business. The announcement comes weeks after the motorcycle maker withdrew its earnings forecast for this year, […]

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1948 Harley-Davidson EL Panhead Is Why Motorcycles Should Only Come in Black

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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Back in 1948, soon after proving its worth on the world’s battlefields, Harley-Davidson began the hard work of making motorcycles for the peacetime years everyone was anticipating. And that meant both coming up with new models, and remaking all of the company’s most successful engineering. Several years before, in 1936,

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BMW F900 XR review

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by Geoff Hill from https://www.mirror.co.uk Same engine, frame and brakes as the F900R, but a very different bike Small changes can make a huge different to a machine and the adventure version of this middleweight Beemer proves it by being much better than the naked roadster version, says Geoff Sometimes small is big. And before

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Black and Red 1947 Harley-Davidson WL Police Bike Is What Bad Guys Feared

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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Police departments were never slow in adopting emerging technologies. Given the nature of their work, these organizations had to adapt and use hardware that, if not more advanced than the one used by bad guys, and least on par with it. And motorcycles are no exception. In the U.S. one

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Classic motorcycle ridden by George Lazenby has emerged for sale for £30,000

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by Faith Ridler from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Classic motorcycle ridden by George Lazenby to the set of his only James Bond film goes on sale for £30,000 George Lazenby bought BSA Rocket III in 1969 and rode it on 17-mile commute He lived in Bayswater, London while filming On Her Majesty’s Secret

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Whatever Happened to the Kawasaki J Shape-Shifting Electric Motorcycle?

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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com In the very near future, electric motorcycles will become just as common as electric cars. There are countless startups working on such projects, and even giant Harley-Davidson has joined the party with the launch of the LiveWire. But there is one company that saw the potential of electric motorcycles years

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Royal Enfield Photon Electric Motorcycle Launch Price £20,000 approx.

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by Abhinand Venugopal from https://www.rushlane.com This one-off Royal Enfield electric motorcycle was made by Newtown-based Electric Classic Cars Global automotive industries have termed EVs as the future of mobility and many environmentalists (actual and keyboard warriors) are glad about it. However, an ideal balance between electric vehicles and petrol hybrids would be the best scenario

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Benda Asura 400: Purely Chinese motorcycle with Indian name and somewhat inspired design

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by Pradeep Shah from https://www.financialexpress.com/ The Benda Asura 400 comes with a single-sided swingarm, which is quite rare to see on a 400cc motorcycle. In the last few years, a lot of Chinese manufacturers have ventured into the motorcycling space. We have been bringing you a lot of stories on Chinese copy bikes that are

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BMW’s most ‘avid motorcycle rider’ is a woman. She’s also in charge of the company

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from https://www.ksro.com BMW(NEW YORK) — Trudy Hardy is no stranger to motorcycles. Hardy, a licensed street rider for 20 years and former executive at British carmaker MINI, now sells the “2-wheeled side of life” as vice president of Motorrad of the Americas, BMW’s motorcycle division. Her position puts her in charge of motorcycle operations in

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Motorcyclist ticketed for violating “Stay at Home” order tells his story, SPD comments on incident

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by Jesse Inman, www.Ozarksfirst.com SPRINGFIELD — One of seven bikers given a citation for violating Springfield’s “Stay at Home” order speaks out, and police comment on the incident. Dusty Sneed was one of those bikers given citations. He says Wednesday night, April 7, started with his group of motorcyclists riding through the city. It ended

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NEW FROM THE NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM–1954 Honda Dream 4E

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Compared to later Hondas, the Dream 4E was a rudimentary design. Some would say it borrowed some of its engineering and design from German makes, especially NSU. Soichiro Honda’s first motorcycles came to market in 1947, almost immediately after World War II. They were essentially bicycles with small clip-on engines. His mission was to put

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Harley-Davidson to hold virtual annual meeting, acting CEO says More Roads plan is working

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by Margaret Naczek from https://www.bizjournals.com Amid the instability of the COVID-19 pandemic, Harley-Davidson Inc.’s acting president and CEO Jochen Zeitz reflected back on the advancements made in the More Roads to Harley-Davidson strategy in 2019. 2020 already was a pivotal year in the company’s strategic plan to grow more riders and expand dealership reach, but

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Recent Scores from the Master, David Uhl

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Good Monday to all!  Well, that last email created quite a frenzy with several inquiries.  Many of the pieces will be going to new homes, but there are still some left.  If you need information, please email me.  Thanks, Greg ————————————————————————————- We hope this finds you well in these uncertain times.  David hasn’t slowed down

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KTM joins BMW Motorrad in opting out of EICMA, Intermot due to coronavirus pandemic

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by Express Drives Desk from https://www.financialexpress.com/ In the best interest of their employees and customers, KTM AG will withdraw from global trade shows for the rest of the year, including INTERMOT in Cologne, Germany and the EICMA exhibition in Milan, Italy. KTM AG have announced that the company will not participate in the motorcycle shows

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Aprilia Terra 250 adventure motorcycle spied in China

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by Abhinand Venugopal from https://www.rushlane.com Aprilia’s new Terra 250 adventure motorcycle is powered by the same power plant in CFMoto’s 250NK Italian two-wheeler brand, Aprilia is apparently working on a new adventure (or dual-sport) motorcycle in the 250cc category, for the Chinese market. It was recently spied at Zongshen Aprilia’s manufacturing facility in a market-ready

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Vyrus Alyen Powered By Ducati – Motorcycle From The Future

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by Satya Singh from https://www.rushlane.com/ A bike that appears to utilize advanced alien engineering, Vyrus Alyen easily qualifies as a formidable competitor to the likes of batpod Vyrus is an Italy based innovation workshop that has been producing absolute masterpieces for more than thirty years. The workshop’s latest creation Alyen is a seamless blend of

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New Kalk INK SL Electric Motorcycle Revealed with $10K Price Tag for the U.S.

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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com For a while now, a Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer by the name of Cake has been moving to position itself as a noteworthy adversary in this expanding segment. Its moves have been rather shy so far, but as of this summer the company is going head on into the segment

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