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Green Motorcycle Breaks World Speed Record

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:19:20 +0000

Who says you have to trade speed to go green? Mission Motors, a software company of all things, may help push the green movement forward by pushing its new electric motorcycle to the 150 mph mark, a new world record for an electric motorcycle. The record was clocked at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a prototype of an electric motorcycle the company plans to sell in the near future. Sales for a limited number of the nearly $70k e-bike may start as early as next summer, but the master plan for the company is to license electric power systems for all types of machines.

Apparently Mission uses the best lithium-ion batteries the market and has with a proprietary cooling and management technology. Mission is currently raising funding and working on agreements with a Chinese OEM manufacturer in hopes of merging its battery technology with low-cost bikes. We’d like to see the whole deal be American made, but the Chinese do continue to dominated the electric bike and scooter market. As long as a peppy machine such as this gets more people interested in cleaner, greener vehicles… it should be good thing.

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Bruce Rossmeyer, Motocycle Dealer Icon, Dies in Accident

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:55:03 +0000

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Friday July 31, 2009

Bruce Rossmeyer, the founder of multi-line dealership complex Destination Daytona and owner of a number of Harley-Davidson dealerships, was killed in a motorcycle accident yesterday, according to the American Motorcyclist Association.

Rossmeyer was on a ride with a five other motorcyclists in the western part of Wyoming. At about 11 a.m., the group attempted to pass a pickup truck pulling a camping trailer.

The News Journal Online quoted Lt. Shawn Dickerson of the Wyoming Highway Patrol saying, “The pickup slowed and activated his left signal. Four of the motorcycles passed to the left… When Mr. Rossmeyer attempted to pass, the truck made its left turn and he hit the driver’s side door. The sixth motorcycle swerved to the right and avoided collision.”

Rossmeyer was the owner of Daytona Beach Harley-Davidson. He also owned a number of other Harley-Davidson dealerships around the country. He was riding to the Sturgis motorcycle rally in Sturgis, S.D., at the time of the accident.

Rossmeyer, also a co-owner of two Daytona Beach area car dealerships. was a father of five and the grandfather to seven.

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Harley Davidson Drops New Plant Plans

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:09:19 +0000

Harley Davidson’s Buell division considered building a new $10 million plant to lower costs by consolidating offices and factory locations. After reconsidering the plans, H-D cancelled the actions wanting to stay focused on its major restructuring plans, including a possible plant closing.

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Harley-Davidson May Move Productions

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:17:18 +0000

Harley-Davidson is doing a major evaluation of its main production plant in York, Pennsylvania and may consider moving. The evaluation comes, as no surprise, as the company attempts to lower costs within a sales downturn. They believe the factory is not competitive as it stands and a change is in order. As of yet there are no potential new locations for the facility which employes 2,400 workers and assembles to company’s Touring and Softail motorcycles.

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