That ridiculous thing, Sons of Anarchy, begins its second season – of a proposed seven seasons – tonight, Tuesday, September 8th, at ten o’clock Eastern. And apparently, 5.4 million of you have had this day marked on your calendars for ten months. Three weeks ago, according to the Manteca Bulletin, a “mind-boggling” number of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Another little piece of Harley-Davidson history died last Friday. Roeder Harley in Sandusky, Ohio just threw itself to the credit wolves. Roeder is the fourth dealership to close in the last six months and the second to close in the last week. Santa Cruz Harley and Wilwert’s Harley closed late last year. Auburn Harley closed [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Auburn Harley-Davidson/Buell of Auburn, California went out of business yesterday. Auburn is in the California gold country on Interstate Route 80 about thirty miles northeast of Sacramento. The dealership opened in 1976. It employed 42 people two years ago. Yesterday the last 15 employees lost their jobs. Thanks George For most of the last quarter [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Myrtle Beach Bike Week is turning to slapstick. If you actually are in the greater North Carolina-South Carolina metropolitan area this May expect to see Keystone Kops, clowns throwing pies and Mel Brooks and Albert Brooks and Woody Allen all zooming up and down the coast in camera trucks. Ne-new La-la-laws? First, you know about [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Maybe this is why some people are starting to think that maybe somebody might finally want to consider pistol whipping that smart ass smirk off President Stupid’s face. Canceling Christmas, burning your life savings, foreclosing on your house and telling you to quit whining about it was bad enough. But, now the Harley dealerships are [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 30, 2008
You are probably going to see a garbled version of this on television sometime in the next month. A professor at the University of Stavanger in Norway has done of study of dangerous drivers and concluded that motorcyclists are unfairly stigmatized by society as being dangerous. Calm down. He meant that in a good way. [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 19, 2008
A convergence of bad signs has made your chances of walking into a Harley dealership and riding out on a new bike slimmer than ever. In recent days the motor company and various financial geniuses have described the four problems that are sinking Harley-Davidson: One Two, Three, Four 1. For years, Harley has been growing [...]
Continue reading...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
162 Comments