Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Wire Plus Introduces Black Contrast Style Replacement Housing


PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Rick Raus
Phone: 714-280-8537

Wire Plus Introduces Black Contrast Style Replacement Housing

Winfield, KS- Wire Plus Powersports Electronics is proud to introduce their new contrast style “Old School” seat post replacement assembly which includes billet housing, power control module and key switch. This state-of-the-art system features a CNC machined “old school” teardrop shaped billet assembly and includes a much more robust ignition key. The power control module has four separate power circuits, replaceable start relay and diagnostic LED’s, which can be viewed through holes in the face of the housing. It’s the perfect solution for all riders that want to update their bikes look and performance, but have older style units that originally came on their custom production bike. Installation is a breeze…This new assembly plugs right into the existing Wire Plus harness (not included).

Exclusive to Wire Plus is a unique safety feature that shuts off the front lighting when starting and leaves the taillights on for safety during nighttime starting. This puts less of a strain on the battery while starting and still provides the rider with “rear visibility” during nighttime starting. Anyone stuck on the side of the road at night will be seen by other drivers while trying to start their bike due to this new safety feature. Available in a black powder coated finish. Suggested Retail: $299.00. This style replacement housing also comes as a complete seat post mount wiring system, either complete with lighting control module for stock style handlebars and turns, or chopper style without turns and with automotive start.  Reliability…Ease of Installation…and Quality all in One…Wire Plus!

Check out Wire Plus’s entire ‘11 product line at http://www.wire-plus.com/ or contact them directly at (620) 221-2417; Wire Plus, 724 Industrial Road, Winfield, KS 67156…email them at sales@wire-plus.com.



Black Powder Coated “Old School” Seat Post Replacement Assembly

Buffalo Chip Challenge

Custom Chrome International Gives Students an Edge by Sponsoring Buffalo Chip Challenge:
Santa Clara, CA (03-14-11) As one of the world’s largest suppliers of aftermarket motorcycle parts and accessories, Custom Chrome International not only has the responsibility to serve the needs of its dealers worldwide but to also sustain the industry by promoting the education of its future technicians. 
To champion programs that provide students with expanded opportunities in the motorcycle industry, Custom Chrome International is proud to join forces with the Sturgis Buffalo Chip and other leading motorcycle businesses for the 2011 Buffalo Chip Challenge. 
This ground breaking partnership between business and education was started by the Sturgis Buffalo Chip in 2010, where welding, manufacturing and collision repair students at Western Dakota Technical Institute will build, customize and finish a stock Harley-Davidson motorcycle alongside renowned designer and builder Michael Prugh as part of a 16-week bike build program.
In addition to donating world class parts for the program, Custom Chrome International will host the Buffalo Chip Challenge at its upcoming Dealer Show March 20th in Santa Clara, CA.  To highlight the show, Michael Prugh and WDT students will be conducting a live build of the 2011 motorcycle as well as entering the finished 2010 motorcycle entitled “Method” in the North American Championship of CCI’s International Bike Show Series going on at the dealer show at the same time. 
“We are deeply committed to our partner, Rod Woodruff and the Sturgis Buffalo Chip for our mutual efforts to promote the future technicians of our industry,” said Holger Mohr, chief executive officer of Custom Chrome International.  “The Buffalo Chip Challenge is one more way we can continue to foster the passion for motorcycling for generations to come.”
After the Custom Chrome Dealer Show, the finished Buffalo Chip Challenge motorcycle will be unveiled at Western Dakota Tech’s graduation ceremony in early May and later auctioned to help sponsor the Sturgis Buffalo Chip’s annual Legends Ride which has given more than $150,000 to local Black Hills Charities in just three short years. 
“The Buffalo Chip Challenge is hugely successful due to the collective efforts of industry leading companies like Custom Chrome.  It’s because of them, we have the opportunity to enhance the employability of these students, while helping to build an industry perfect for the state of South Dakota,” says Rod Woodruff, owner and president of the Sturgis Buffalo Chip.
The public is invited to follow the build online at www.buffalochip.com, where pictures and video content of the Buffalo Chip Challenge will be published.  To find 'The World's Finest Products for Harley-Davidsons’, visit www.customchrome.com and for tickets and event info for the premier charity event in motorcycling, log on to www.legendsride.com.  This year’s sponsors of the Buffalo Chip Challenge include Black Hills Harley-Davidson, Custom Chrome and Hot Leathers.  





Sunday, March 13, 2011

Frog Jumps Poker Run


MOTORCYCLE AWARENESS RALLY

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Chippewa Valley

MOTORCYCLE AWARENESS RALLY
Saturday, April 23rd from noon – 2:00

We will stage at the main entrance to Oakwood Mall in Eau Claire
(between Culvers and Olive Garden)

Please arrive at 11:30 so we can be set up by noon and we will rally until 2:00

Come join us in promoting motorcycle awareness

Everyone is welcome! Bring family and friends and stay as long as you can!

We will line the streets with our Motorcycle Awareness Signs to make the public aware that Motorcycles are back on the road again.

Signs will be available or you can make your own

Sponsored by ABATE of Wisconsin7B - for more information call Big Jim @ 715-563-1159


DAYTONA BEACH





DAYTONA BEACH -- It seemed like an odd place to find Jesus, in the midst of motorcycles and leather-(and often scantily)clad women. But there was Glenn Taylor, a 63-year-old South Carolina preacher, standing next to a table of Bibles and other Christian literature along Main Street on Saturday.


Taylor was one of several veteran Christian bikers who, in the crowd of Bike Week 2011's grand finale Saturday, saw ample opportunity to spread the Word. Despite an event that, at face value, seems to be incongruous with Christianity, Taylor and others said they usually get a good response from the bikers, and that this year's crowd has been the most receptive yet.


The key to success, according to Taylor and others, is a hands-off approach.
"There are two main kinds of bikers," Taylor said.


Taylor described the "yuppie biker crowd" who ride on the weekends for fun, and the "hard-core crowd" who would make a career of biking, if they could. If biking were a religion, the hard-core crowd would be the fundamentalists. While yuppie bikers will trailer their bikes for long trips, hard-core bikers abhor the idea.


There is one trait both groups share, though, according to Taylor -- they ignore preachers.
So, Taylor took a quiet approach to proselytizing, standing next to a table of books available to take home for free. He only spoke when spoken to.


Hector Lopez was a different kind of preacher. Lopez, a.k.a. "The Orlando Birdman," brought six of his 16 birds to Main Street on Saturday. Three of them stood on his bicycle Saturday afternoon while he arranged the other three -- two Macaws and a Cockatoo -- on the shoulders of a woman.


Lopez, 49, snapped a picture of the woman, handed her a card so she could get the picture later, then asked for a donation, "to feed the birds."


When asked about his bicycle, Lopez explained he had "gone green" six years before and didn't drive anywhere. He wanted to travel the country, he explained, preaching to people that they don't need to rely on cars and fossil fuels to get places.


But how did he get to Daytona Beach on Saturday from Orlando?
"I drove him," said Samantha Rovnak, 24, a neighbor of Lopez's and fellow animal enthusiast who brought her bearded dragon -- a lizard -- to pose along with the birds for pictures. "We just threw his bike in the trunk and headed over."


Andrea Pressimone, Lopez's roommate and partner in the birdman business, said this was their second Bike Week.


"It's a great crowd," said Pressimone, 37. "We're thinking about renting an RV and coming back next year for the whole week."


Chuck Pickett, another Christian biker parked along Main Street on Saturday, has come to Bike Week off and on for 15 years to hand out Bibles. In years past, three or four people per day would thank Pickett, 70, of Inglis, for his quiet evangelism.


This year, Pickett said, 30 or 40 people per day are thanking him. Why?
"The hardness of times, I think," Pickett said. "People are hurting."
Parked next to Pickett was John Britz, who rode his bike down from Export, Pa., for the 21st consecutive year to pass out Bibles at Bike Week.


Britz, 65, echoed what Taylor said earlier, that the aggressive preaching style favored by those with megaphones and large signs inspires apathy at best among bikers, ignorance and anger at worst.


Britz also made it very clear which of Taylor's two biker crowds he fit into.
"I ride here. Every year. I don't trailer. Put that in bold letters," he told a reporter, in a tone more serious than he used to discuss anything else, even his religious beliefs.
"I don't trailer."


Daytona Beach, Florida (CNN) -- Daytona Beach's yearly motorcycle invasion, Bike Week, just concluded its 70th year, and the average attendees were not much younger.
Leather-clad riders on Harley-Davidsons could be seen throughout the Florida resort town riding alongside large, stately motorcycles carrying a CEO and lawyers in khaki and blue Oxford button-downs.


On the one hand, this is not your father's Bike Week -- the one with the reputation of topless girls and bike gangs fighting in the street.


On the other hand, this is your father's Bike Week -- they're still coming with their aging baby boomer friends, though they've mellowed over the years.


"Most of the folks have a good income," said Kevin Kilian, vice president of the Daytona Chamber of Commerce.


"They are like me, 40 to 50 year olds, and they are a little long in the tooth," said Kilian.
Daytona's bike celebration began in 1937, centered on a motorcycle race between the beach and the street. In the beginning, the race and festival were separate weekend family events, Kilian said. The two events came together, expanding into a 10-day celebration throughout the Daytona area. World War II interrupted the event for several years.


Over the years, Daytona's Bike Week became seen as a hangout for dangerous motorcycle gangs involved in illegal activities.


"As the progression goes, it was -- I don't want to say rougher -- (rather) a different crowd back in those days," said the chamber vice president. "The stereotype that some attribute to Bike Week doesn't exist anymore."


In the 1980s, Daytona city leaders told the Chamber of Commerce to clean up Bike Week or get rid of it. Over the years, the chamber worked with sponsors, city officials and police to clean up the image by eliminating the rough crowds.


They still exist, but not to the extent as it did in the late '80s, yearly attendees say. Some bars in Daytona, however, still have signs on their front doors telling bikers to not wear their bike club "colors" or logos on their jackets in order to keep peace among opposing bike clubs But the only gang that has over run the town this year has larger waistlines, graying hair and a whole lot more money to spend. Venders sell everything from tourist trinkets, leather gear and motorcycles accessories. The motorcycles themselves that can run as high as $35,000.