Harley-Davidson has selected one of the most well-established retailers of imported motorcycles in China. Mr. Wan has more than 10 years' experience selling and servicing imported heavyweight and premium motorcycles. Moreover, he and his management team are motorcycle enthusiasts who share a passion for riding and who understand the market.
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Victory promotes the hell out of test drives. Let the customer ride the motorcycle, and it'll sell. They're that confident of what they're building.
On contract clauses 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.
I think some people might think we're insane. My mom's just happy we're not flipping motorcycles. She doesn't call it insane. But she's having a tough time with it.
That was incredible, ... I'd quit just to come race with you guys every weekend. I've raced a motorcycle, and that was unbelievable. I love motorcycles, but this is amazing. These guys are incredible. When I got in the car, I couldn't really fit. They wanted me to get back more, and I couldn't get my shoulders back, but around the second turn, I was back in the headrest. That was amazing. I don't know how these guys can do 500 miles, 240 miles an hour, in and out of traffic, wheel-to-wheel and against the walls in front of 400,000 people. It blows my mind.
In my 25 years in the motorcycle industry, I've found the most important elements of success are character and vision. John Covington and the entire Steed team are just that type of individuals. Now, with Patriot's experience and involvement, the world of custom V-Twins has gained the broad distribution and marketing muscle that has been lacking to date. Together, we have set out to change the industry.
There's always been a mystique and an allure to motorcycles. Even for people who don't ride, there's a fascination.
We're trying to be as well prepared for the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals as we've been all season. It's no secret that the G Squared team has been underachieving all year. That being said, the facts are we have a very good rider, a very good motorcycle, a very good power plant from SS and my partner is the best tuner on the planet, but items beyond our control has keep us from putting it all together. My goal as co-owner of this operation is to be sure that we're as well prepared as we can be for this weekend.
In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliche of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme.
We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.
My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for president. I'm the only sane one in the family.
Reduce the speed limit from 25 to 15 (miles per hour), establish double fines and assign a motorcycle unit that can generate more money.
SOLID CHOICE A.J. Burnett might have finished on poor terms with Jack McKeon, but former Marlins manager Jeff Torborg remains a big believer in the free-agent pitcher. I really like him, ... He'll give you everything he's got. He's a different kind of guy, the kind you'll see out on a motorcycle with his nipple rings and all that. But he's really a good boy. He'll do nothing but get better. I don't know where A.J. is going to go, but I do know one thing Whoever gets him is getting one heck of a pitcher.
Several cars that were going by waved at us, ... It was a nice gesture. And when we were going down in our convoy, a guy on a motorcycle gave us a thumbs-up - every vehicle. It made us feel like we were doing something good.
I was ranked No. 2 in the world and then I was out for 15 months between my shoulder surgery and my parents getting in a motorcycle accident in 2002,
I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.
You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
My goal is to get a job where I can do both such as with a magazine specializing in photography and articles on motorcycles and four-wheel drive vehicles. Both would be something I love.
Not one hand went up. But I've had more than a few customers tell me that once they had it done, it felt like a completely different motorcycle.
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.
I have been off the motorcycles for about 20 years now, but that doesn't mean I can't still do it.
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
And when was the last time you saw a motorcycle run a car off the road, or run into one and cause major damage ... That doesn't happen.
It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
I was a rebellious kid, and my father was a politician, ... Over the course of my fourteenth year, my Mormon Boy Scout troop turned into a motorcycle gang. We all bought little Honda motorcycles. We thought we were a lot worse than we probably were, but the locals thought we were bad enough. My father was told that if he ever wanted to get re-elected anything, he was going to have to get me the hell out of sight. So he sent me off to prep school, and there I met the guy Bob Weir who was going to become the rhythm guitar player for the Grateful Dead, and he and I have been one another's official best friend ever since.
The main thing (about the organization) is to enjoy motorcycles, ... and have a good relationship with the community.
We have people who will get on a motorcycle in the dead of winter and ride 350 miles to go to a funeral of a complete stranger and stand there for an hour, at attention, give a salute and go home.
If it were something where he was riding a motorcycle and he was popping some wheelies and he got hurt, than maybe I would be a bit more concerned. It was just a freak accident.
A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
Generally, it's a fellow who had a motorcycle 20 or 30 years ago, ... They're guys who are either retired or nearing retirement. I think their mind-set is, 'This will be the last bike I have. I want to revisit the old times.'
If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.