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2007 News
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SHELL & HARLEY-DAVIDSON ALLIANCE REACHES
MOTORCYCLE ENTHUSIASTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY |
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Houston, October 30, 2007 - What does
Harley-Davidson recommend for all their motorcycles? Premium
gasoline. And what does a Harley® rider need to find quality
gasoline while riding their motorcycle? A really detailed map...
until now. Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) has begun
an alliance with Shell Oil Products US (Shell) that will soon place
all 14,000+ Shell-branded stations on the motorcycle maker's online
Harley-DavidsonSM Ride Planner, where riders will find Shell V-Power®
premium gasoline. As part of this alliance, Shell also will proudly
be the exclusive fuels sponsor of the Harley-Davidson® 105th
Anniversary Celebration in August 2008.
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| 2007 PRO
STOCK MOTORCYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP ON THE LINE AT SEASON FINALE IN POMONA |
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Screamin' Eagle Harley-Davidson Rider Andrew
Hines Has Points Advantage MILWAUKEE (Oct. 30, 2007) Š It all comes
down to this. Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines Motorsports rider
Andrew Hines has a 39-point lead going into the season finale NHRA
POWERade event at the Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif.
This one race will decide the championship.
The 24-year-old Southern California native
has more than just a points advantage, however, going into the
pressure-packed event. He's the three-time defending NHRA POWERade
series champion, so he knows what it is like to battle for a title.
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| HINES
DEFENDS LAS VEGAS PRO STOCK MOTORCYCLE VICTORY; MAINTAINS COUNTDOWN
POINTS LEAD |
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VEGAS (Oct. 29, 2007) – Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines
Motorsports rider Andrew Hines experienced a completely different
feeling at the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals on Sunday.
Hines
was calm.
The
three-time defending NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Motorcycle champion
didn't have the usual butterflies normally associated with a big
race weekend. As if the 15th of 16 Pro Stock Motorcycle events
wasn't pressure-packed enough every other year, this season the
stakes were much higher.
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| AMA The
Parts Bin: October
Infineon Raceway Takes to the Drag Strip for 7th annual
Food Drive |
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Infineon Raceway will take its pledge to help feed those in
need this holiday season to its world-famous quarter-mile drag
strip for the 7th annual Thanksgiving Food Drive.
The raceway has hosted an extremely popular and successful
grass-roots drag racing program since 1989, and the program will
serve as the focal point of this year’s food drive.
Infineon Raceway will take its call for non-perishable food
items to the year’s final round of California Army National
Guard Wednesday Night Drags on Wednesday, Nov. 7. As a
one-time special offer, any person who brings at least four
non-perishable food items that night will receive a $10 voucher
towards one Wednesday Night Drags admission in 2008.
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| COUNTDOWN TO
CHAMPIONSHIP HAS TWO STOPS BEFORE 2007 NHRA POWERADE CHAMPIONS ARE
CROWNED |
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MILWAUKEE (Oct. 24, 2007) - Screamin'
Eagle/Vance & Hines Motorsports rider Andrew Hines is taking the
new NHRA points format all in stride. The three-time defending NHRA
POWERade Pro Stock Motorcycle champion doesn't exactly know what to
expect in the last two events of the season, but he is comforted by
one fact: none of his competitors do either.
Starting this year, NHRA has developed a
playoff format for all professional categories. The top eight
competitors in each professional category advanced to the second
round starting with the Aug. 29 U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis. Both
Screamin' Eagle factory riders Hines and Eddie Krawiec were in that
group of eight.
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American
Road Shop Gives Away New HD Sportster and Contributes to The
Children's Leukemia Foundation |
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– American Road Shop Bike
Night's recurring theme is "Lifestyle is a choice." The
choice was clear for many bikers to head to 59 West in Highland,
Michigan, on Tuesday nights from May to September and take part in
weekly bike contests, raffles and the chance to win a brand new
Harley-Davidson Sportster from ABC Harley Davidson. They also held a
50/50 drawing for the third year in a row with 50% of the proceeds
going to the winner and 50% to the Children's Leukemia Foundation of
Michigan (CLF), which was over $2000 this year.
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| Harley-Davidson’s
“Get Down to Daytona” Contest Rules Change |
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MILWAUKEE
(October 22, 2007) – Harley-Davidson announced today updated rules
for the “Get Down to Daytona” contest which allows all female
Harley-Davidson and Buell motorcycle owners to enter, regardless of
when they received their license. The previous rules stated that
applicants must have received their license after November 15, 2005,
to be eligible. To enter the contest, women need to submit a video
for a chance to win an expense paid road trip from Atlanta to
Daytona Bike Week with Karen Davidson, great-granddaughter of
William A. Davidson, one of the Company’s founders
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| JIMS
131" Twin
Cam
Evolution Mount Race Engine
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JIMS
R&D Department has developed a 131 Cubic Inch Twin
Cam
engine that bolts directly into Evolution style frames. Now the
reliability and performance of Twin Cam technology is available for
most OEM Harley-Davidson applications back to 1991, as well as most
custom Evolution frames.
The
131" features the same stroke as JIMS 120" at 4 ½",
but carries a larger bore diameter of 4 5/16".
To feed fuel to the 131" CNC Ported Heads were developed
for effortless airflow. Our R&D team upgraded the oil pump which
is found in all current production Harley-Davidson® Twin
Cams.
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| AMA NEWS AND
NOTES: November 2007 |
The
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) approved
recommendations for motorcycle safety focusing on passage of
mandatory helmet-use laws in all states, but did not deal with other
significant issues related to the safety of riders on the road.
The recommendations, which do not carry the force
of law, come a year after the NTSB held a public forum on motorcycle
safety that gathered comments from motorcycle manufacturers,
researchers, trauma physicians, law enforcement officials, insurance
companies and motorcycle associations, including the AMA. Those
groups expressed support for a wide range of motorcycle-safety
initiatives, including campaigns against alcohol impairment,
increased opportunities for rider education and stricter enforcement
of licensing laws. In the end, though, the panel's final report
focused almost exclusively on the helmet-law issue.
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| TURNER TAKES
NHRA EXHIBITION WIN AND LOOKS FORWARD TO BEING AT HOME TRACK IN
ROCKINGHAM |
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RICHMOND, Va., (Oct. 10, 2007) Š NHRA
officials running the Winner's Circle at last weekend's Torco Racing
Fuels NHRA Nationals might have been confused when it came time to
crown the winner of the Nitro Top Fuel category.
After all, Tommy Grimes had won each of the
last four AHDRA exhibition events at NHRA races dating back to fall
2005. But this time was different.
Not only did Jay Turner beat Grimes in the
second round, but he went on to win the race too.
Turner beat Phil Schmidt (6.628 seconds to
6.782) in the first round before topping Grimes (6.740 to 6.811) in
the second round. He rode his Harley-Davidson to the win over Bill
Furr in the final after Furr fouled at the starting line.
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| Fifth
Annual Chopper's Art Show To Benefit Denver Boys And Girls Club,
Taking Place At The Capsule In Denver, Saturday October 20th |
| Denver, COLO-
Oct 9, 2007 - Denver 81 announced today their fifth annual
Chopper's Art Show to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Metro
Denver, will take place Saturday, October 20 at a new location, the
Capsule Art and Event Center, located at 560 Santa Fe Drive in
Denver, Colorado. This year will focus on how tattoo design,
rock-n-roll art, hot rods and motorcycle lifestyle art all influence
and play off each other.
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| WITH
CHAMPIONSHIP DECIDED, HARLEY-DAVIDSON WRECKING CREW OUT FOR ONE LAST
TROPHY |
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MILWAUKEE (Oct. 4, 2007) – Kenny Coolbeth
won the 2007 AMA Flat Track Twins championship for Harley-Davidson
Screamin' Eagle racing last weekend in Tucson, Ariz., but the season
finale is in Las Vegas this weekend.
With the championship clinched, the entire
Harley-Davidson Wrecking Crew is up to the challenge of winning one
more trophy. Three of the four Wrecking Crew riders have combined to
win 10 of the 11 events held this season.
Coolbeth has claimed six wins for the factory
sponsored Screamin' Eagle team. Jared Mees has earned three wins for
his Blue Springs Harley-Davidson squad and Joe Kopp has earned one
win for his Team Latus Harley-Davidson team.
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| COOLBETH
WINS SECOND CONSECUTIVE AMA TWINS FLAT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP |
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TUCSON
– To put it mildly, Saturday was a great night for Harley-Davidson
racing at the AMA Flat Track Twins Ford Quality Checked Championship
event at USA Race Park.
On any other night throughout the season,
Joe Kopp's win would be reason enough to celebrate. The 2000 AMA
Grand National champion finally put his Team Latus/Screamin' Eagle
Harley-Davidson into the win column. It was the veteran's first win
this season and 12th of his career. And he battled the defending
series champion, Kenny Coolbeth, the entire race.
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| Harley-Davidson
Motor Company Announces “Get Down to Daytona” Contest |
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MILWUAKEE
(October 2, 2007) – Harley-Davidson announced today a new contest
for women riders, “Get Down to Daytona”, in which women can
submit videos about their greatest motorcycle mentor story for a
chance to win an expense paid road trip from Atlanta to Daytona Bike
Week with Karen Davidson, great-granddaughter of William A.
Davidson, one of the Company’s founders
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