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2008 News
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| Atomic
Racing’s Paul Carpenter Looking to Clinch U.S. Smokeless Tobacco
Company Top Privateer Award |
| After 15
rounds of Monster Energy® AMA Supercross, an FIM World
Championship, Honda’s Paul Carpenter, of Ithaca, N.Y., leads the
U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company Pro Privateer Challenge (USSTC)
136-109 over Honda’s Heath Voss, of Mico, Texas. The U.S.
Smokeless Tobacco Company Pro Privateer Challenge awards a total of
$50,000 to the top three finishing privateers in AMA Supercross
class racing.
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Michael
Lichter's Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Art Exhibition Honors the Late
Johnny Chop
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| STURGIS, S.D.
--April 24, 2008-- Thunder Road will once again be home to the
annual Custom Motorcycle Art Exhibition during Sturgis Bike Week
2008. Under the direction of Michael Lichter, and with the
blessing of the late Johnny Chop's family, this year's exhibition,
titled "Stay Gold," is being held to honor Johnny Chop and
will feature builders who approach their work with the same passion
that Johnny demonstrated in each bike he built throughout his short
life. This passion radiated from Johnny's being and was
enthusiastically expressed on his knuckles, which were tattooed with
the eight letters - S-T-A-Y-G-O-L-D - that became the exhibition's
namesake.
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| Robertino
Pietri Statement Regarding Barber Motorsports Park Crash |
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In Superbike
qualifying at Barber Motorsports Park last Saturday, Team
Roadracingworld.com Suzuki's Robertino Pietri was involved in a
collision with Roger Hayden of the factory Monster Energy Kawasaki
team. Pietri, the 2006 FMV Venezuelan National Superbike Champion
and the 2006 FIM Latin American Superbike Champion, collided with
Hayden as the two were both working through slower riders and both
Pietri and Hayden crashed. Hayden suffered significant injuries in
the fall. Pietri suffered bruising and an arm injury but was able to
race in Superstock on Sunday.
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| Windham
Closes in on Reed’s Points Lead as Monster Energy® Supercross
Heads To Seattle’s Qwest Field |
| In one of the
most dramatic Monster Energy® Supercross, an FIM World
Championship, seasons in history the fate of Chad Reed’s
championship season hangs in the wind as he battles injury this
Saturday at Seattle’s Qwest Field Saturday. In the Western
Regional AMA Supercross Lites class a champion will be crowned this
weekend.
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| 6 gets 66 |
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Even though he
swapped out his long-time competition number for the #6 plate this
season, his old number still carries significance for Rockstar
Makita Yoshimura Suzuki’s Mat Mladin, as he upped his career AMA
Superbike wins record to 66 on Sunday at Barber Motorsports Park.
His chief rival, reigning two-time series champ Ben Spies,
didn’t open the door by crashing out of contention as he did on
Saturday, but Mladin still managed to turn the race into a lopsided
affair in short order.
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| The Horse
Backstreet Choppers Announces Sturgis Bike Show |
| STURGIS, S.D.
--April 16, 2008-- After the success of last year's inaugural show,
The Horse Backstreet Choppers will bring its second annual The Horse
Backstreet Choppers Bike Show to Thunder Road during Sturgis Bike
Week 2008. The show will be held Monday, August 4, 2008 and will
feature celebrity guest judges, door prizes and giveaways, a burnout
pit, live music and beautiful women.
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| HARLEY-DAVIDSON
REPORTS FIRST QUARTER RESULTS |
| Milwaukee,
Wis., April 17, 2008 -- Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) today announced
its results for the first quarter ended March 30, 2008. Revenue
for the quarter was $1.31
billion compared to $1.18 billion in the year-ago quarter, a 10.8
percent increase. Net income for the quarter was $187.6
million compared to $192.3 million, a decrease of 2.5 percent
compared to the first quarter of 2007. First quarter diluted
earnings per share (EPS) were $0.79, a 6.8 percent increase
compared to last year’s $0.74.
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| PUERTA
AND GILLIM IMPRESS IN RED BULL AMA U.S. ROOKIES CUP TEST AT BARBER
MOTORSPORTS PARK |
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The final day of
preseason testing for the Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup wrapped up
at Barber Motorsports Park near Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday.
15-year-old Tomas Puerta of Medellin, Colombia, turned in the
fastest lap at the test and 13-year-old Hayden Gillim of Owensboro,
Ky., won the exciting 15-lap mock race.
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The
American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) told a
Congressional committee in written comments on March 13 that
motorized recreation is a "legitimate and popular" use of
public land that needs more federal funding.
The topic of the subcommittee hearing was
"Impacts of Unmanaged Off-Road Vehicles on Federal Lands. AMA
Vice President of Government Relations Ed Moreland told the federal
lawmakers that recreation, like any other resource, must be managed.
Moreland also made a case for more funding for
federal agencies, such as the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land
Management, so that they can better manage motorized recreation. And
he noted that the motorized recreation community has taken proactive
steps, often in partnership with public land managers, to reinforce
its land-use ethic through rider education and public awareness.
Besides benefiting riders and the off-highway
vehicle industry, motorized recreation pumps funds into local
economies, Moreland added.
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| AMA
Superbike Championship Round 2: Barber Motorsports Park |
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The AMA
Superbike Series Championship picks back up on April 18-20 at Barber
Motorsports Park, located just outside of Birmingham, Ala., for the
second stop on the 2008 calendar.
Second Season Opener
After the high banks of Daytona, Barber Motorsports Park marks the
first traditional road course on the schedule and the first of eight
Superbike doubleheader weekends. In addition, the top teams take
advantage of a six-week layoff following the Daytona opener for
extensive testing and development at Barber. As a result, this
week’s races at Barber Motorsports Park are viewed by many as
something of a second season opener.
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| Dial
It In Right With The Screamin' Eagle Pro Efi Super Tuner |
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The New Screamin' Eagle Pro EFI Super Tuner (p/n
32109-08, $549.95) from Harley-Davidson Genuine Motor Accessories
features a new hardware and software design that makes track-side
EFI tuning faster and easier, with dozens of new features and
innovative tuning enhancements. The improved Vehicle Communication
Interface (VCI) box allows USB connectivity to a PC and contains
onboard memory capacity for 15 minutes of data recording, tracking
up to 26 data variables. Data recording is activated with a push of
a button, so the VCI can be used to gather data during true race
conditions.
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| New
Diamond Black Collection from Harley-Davidson |
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The
distinctive knurled surfaces of the new Diamond Black Collection
from Harley-Davidson Genuine Motor Accessories expose raw billet
aluminum for dramatic contrast with the satin-black finish. Each
item in this hand and foot control collection is designed to age and
"break-in" like a pair of comfortable stone-washed jeans,
and the satin-black finish will complement both high-gloss and flat,
"denim" paint colors. The narrow rubber bands and the
knurled surfaces provide a positive grip and protect boots from
scuffing.
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| On-Sale
Date For Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Concert
Postponed |
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Due to volume-related technical issues on the
ticketing website for the August 30, 2008
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert at the
Harley-Davidson
05th Anniversary Celebration, Harley-Davidson has postponed the
on-sale date for tickets
to Monday, April 14 at 8:00 a.m. central time.
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| Monster
Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto a Lone Star in Texas |
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Monster
Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki rider Ryan Villopoto won his
second-straight AMA Supercross Lites event, earning the victory at
Texas Stadium in Dallas. His teammate Branden Jesseman finished
eighth. In the Monster Energy Supercross, an FIM Championship
premier class, Monster Energy Kawasaki rider Timmy Ferry finished
fifth and Travis Preston nailed the holeshot before finishing 10th.
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| Rockstar
Makita Suzuki’s Nico Izzi Cards Top-10 Finish in Dallas
Supercross Lites |
Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing’s Nico Izzi
returned to AMA Supercross Lites at Dallas’ Texas Stadium this
weekend after skipping the independent Toronto, Ontario, race last
week. The young rookie recently celebrated his first AMA
Supercross Lites podium in Indianapolis and was hoping to
reproduce the experience. This past Saturday night’s
result was somewhat bittersweet, however. Izzi started the night
with an impressive second-place finish in his heat race, however,
a bout with food poisoning slowed the young rider in the 15-lap
main event. In spite of this, Izzi put his head down and
still brought home a seventh-place finish in the main.
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| Mladin
Dominates Test Session at Infineon Raceway |
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Suzuki’s Mat Mladin
continued to dominate on Wednesday at Infineon Raceway as riders
completed a Yamaha-sponsored AMA Superbike Test Session.
Mladin recorded the top time
on Wednesday over the 12-turn, 2.22-mile road course at 1 minute,
34.90 seconds. His best time of the test came on Tuesday (1:34.76).
Both times were better than the actual track record, which is owned
by teammate Ben Spies (1:34.991, set in 2007).
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| Custom
Design Studios' Bikes to be Featured on DuPont's Hot Hues Tour |
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Novato, Calif..--April 3,
2008-- Custom Design Studios today announced that its two-wheeled
masterpieces will soon be rolling into a city near you. Kirk
Taylor, the owner and creative force behind Custom Design Studios,
has been asked by DuPont to showcase his custom bikes as part of the
DuPont Hot Hues Paint Tour, which will make stops in cities across
the west.
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