I saw a little announcement at Motocross Action Magazine titled HRPSports is Accepting Resumes. HRP. The lightning bolt. Immediately I recalled hearing Bob Hannah say during some interview that his wife Terri was running HRP again. I also thought about the Jimmy Weinert Training Facility and the Jimmy Weinert Racing team that’s competing in both [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Industry'
Rekluse Motor Sports, Inc. founder Al Youngwerth on PitPass Radio
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Industry, Technology
Tonight, 06 APR 2010, Pit Pass Radio will have an interview with Al Youngwerth, the founder of Rekluse Motor Sports Inc. If you’ve watched any of the recent Supercross races and wondered how some of the riders manage to keep the engine running when they fall off the bike, it’s because they’re using a Rekluse [...]
Tags: offroad·Pitpass Radio·Rekluse
FIM launches new website
February 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Industry, Racing
Federation Internationale de Motorcyclisme (FIM) has launched their new website. The old FIM site was rather poor. It was only useful for finding press releases, but it was not regularly updated. My expectations for the new site are low and I will probably still be disappointed. But it has video for highlights. That’s something…
Tags: FIM
Cobra Motorcycles president Sean Hilier on Rush Limbaugh
February 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry, Politics of Riding
Cobra Motorcycles president Sean Hilier was on the Rush Limbaugh program yesterday, to discuss the notorious Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) and its devastating effect on his company. I didn’t hear the show but you can read the transcript here. According to Hillier, Cobra employs fewer than 50 people, but there are [...]
helmet head – the Arai difference
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry, Safety
I’ve just returned from my pilgrimage to Indianapolis and the annual Powersports Dealer Expo. There was a lot going on there this year, despite the economy. The biggest news was the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, a law that went into effect last week and summarily killed about 20% of the motorcycle industry [...]
Tags: arai·bodyarmor·helmets·protection
Getting Hosed – Price fixing in the rubber market
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry, Politics of Riding
We have written here before about what price fixing in the rubber market means to the motorcycle industry. The corporate corruption on the part of our beloved suppliers continues. According to this Oligopoly Watch post “Getting hosed“, the EU competition commission recently issued $173 million in fines to six global corporations for conspiring to fix [...]
Tags: oligopoly·pricefixing
5-time Daytona SX by xxxx winner
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry
Time for a rant. I fully grasp the need to placate sponsors. I know they pay the bills. I know that teams and events can’t survive without them. I know we love them. But please, can we stop rewriting history every time a title sponsor changes? Ricky Carmichael is not a 5-time winner of the [...]
Cobra Motorcycles beats recession with Made-in-USA bikes
January 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Industry
I love the Cobra Motorcycle company. It’s a great American story and proof that you don’t have to be Japanese to make a competitive dirt bike. I wrote about Cobra last year in a piece on just that topic. Now this Detroit Free Press article on Cobra features Cobra as an American manufacturer who is [...]
Tags: cobra·Sean Hilier
PitPass Radio discusses the state of the M/C industry
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Industry
Tonight’s show on Pit Pass was good. Good interviews, especially if you’re interested in industry stuff like I am. Important note: The crew mentioned that their email has been broken and they were not aware of the problem. So they asked that any listener who has emailed the show and not received a response to [...]
Tags: media·Pitpass Radio
Dave Despain loses it
January 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Industry
Dave Despain is one of my favorite sportscasters. He’s sort of a “professor” of motorsports and covers a little bit of everything — even though everything these days is about 90% NASCAR. This little video has been around since 2006, but I just found it. It’s hilarious, and was no doubt quite cathartic for Dave. [...]
Tags: DaveDespain·humor·media
