Bourget's Bike Works produced a new quad for the SEMA show that runs this week in Las Vegas. Called the Shredder F-80, Bourget will be building as many as 25 per year at the rather healthy price of $90,000. It's powered by a 425 horsepower, small block 383 fast burn Chevy engine mated to a Turbo 350 automatic transmission. Tires all around are 17 inch Avon 330 rear tires with … [Read more...]
VMAX Awakens Need 6
In Yamaha's extremely long lead up to their new V-Max, they had a display at the Tokyo Motor Show titled "The VMAX Awakens Need 6." There was a highly stylized video with a rear tire smoking and a 3D profile artwork of a new V-Max, or rather, parts of the bike in a semi assembled state. I found a video and grabbed these screenshots from a Japanese website showing the Tokyo … [Read more...]
Honda 50 Was a High Mileage Champ 45 Years Ago
Using high mileage as a selling point isn't new as this ad from Honda clearly shows. The "thrifty Honda 50" as the ad calls it, touted 225 miles per gallon at a time when gas was cheap, this ad appeared in May of 1963. 1963 was 10 years before the first oil embargo and high gas prices were not a concern but no matter what the price was, it was still a neat idea to stress … [Read more...]
Megelli Motorcycles to Debut at EICMA in Milan
Megelli Motorcycles is set to introduce a brand new line of small displacement (125cc) motorcycles November 6th in Milan, Italy at the upcoming EICMA motorcycle exhibition. When you hear about new motorcycles in this category you might picture a cheap product from the Far East. Megelli Motorcycles looks like it is planning to break free of that image with 3 offerings in the … [Read more...]
No Haggle Dealer Pricing is Growing
There's a small but growing movement among car dealers to a no haggle policy. Instead of going in and enduring the back and forth nonsense dealers are known for, the price is set and that's that. No more, "I have to get approval for this" or "I'll see if my manager will go along with this." Wouldn't that be nice? Every other retail store we go into has a price on items for sale … [Read more...]
The Kneeslider – Guest Contributor Duncan Moore
Today we welcome another new guest contributor, Duncan Moore. Duncan joins us from the U.K. where his duties include work on American Motorcycle Dealer magazine, the same fellows that bring us the AMD World and European championship of Custom Bike Building every year. Duncan had a chance to check out a new Harley cafe racer offered by Hogbitz and sends in his impressions. I … [Read more...]
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