Sentences with phrase «own motorcycles»

Harley - Davidson — The motorcycle maker beat Street forecasts on both the top and bottom lines, and also maintained its full - year forecast for motorcycle shipments.

Revenue from motorcycles and related products rose 2.7 percent to $ 1.36 billion in the first quarter ended April 1, compared with analysts» average estimate of $ 1.23 billion.

Between contact sports and wrecking motorcycles and bicycles and other misadventures, I've seen stars, been knocked out, had headaches and nausea that lasted for days... and those were just the concussions I knew about.

One attendee came in dressed entirely in black leather (he'd ridden his motorcycle there) and sat in the back of the room near the door.

The European Union is already weighing whether to hit a wide range of U.S. exports, from motorcycles to orange juice, with new duties.

Harley said it shipped 63,944 motorcycles in the quarter, down 9.7 percent from a year earlier, while it reiterated shipments of between 231,000 and 236,000 motorcycles in 2018.

Western countries and human rights groups have denounced Duterte for an anti-drug campaign that has included more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings by masked gunmen on motorcycles and others.

If the EU is subject to tariffs on the 6.4 billion euros ($ 7.7 billion) of the metals it exports annually to the United States, it has said it will set its own duties on 2.8 billion euros of U.S. exports of products ranging from makeup to motorcycles.

Sure, he wasn't a motorcycle expert, but with a career that spans the U.S. Marine Corps., McKinsey & Co., LexisNexis, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Prakash had the business and management chops.

«There was a bag with a motorcycle helmet hidden behind the bushes.

Two years ago, she and her partner went shopping for a motorcycle but came back with a Can - Am Spyder, the muscled - up motor - trike invented by BRP Inc., based in Valcourt, Que.

Most of the people coming to it are new to Harley and new to motorcycling, period.

I read that you'd never ridden a motorcycle before joining the company.

«The Spyder F3 is not a motorcycle, and we're not going to pretend otherwise,» reads Peter Jones» review of the Spyder F3 in Cycle World, a powersports trade publication.

But Rotax engines also powered other manufacturers» vehicles, including BMW motorcycles.

We've already launched our 2016 model motorcycles and reduced our pricing to be competitive.

Another had made a vow to his wife not to ride motorcycles as long as they had kids at home, so the bike had to go.

My first motorcycle was a Kawasaki because that's what Eddie Lawson rode; years later, I still own Kawasakis.

Milwaukee is home to the headquarters of nine Fortune 1000 companies, including insurer Northwestern Mutual and iconic motorcycle maker Harley - Davidson.

Bombardier had considered building a two - wheeled motorcycle of its own, but concluded that it would be too difficult for a newcomer to compete against such iconic brands as Harley or major multinationals like Honda.

The recalls have yet to hamper the company's bottom line, and this is the summer BRP goes all in to become a major player in the global motorcycle market.

Seven years after its launch, most major motorcycle manufacturers haven't bothered to produce a three - wheeler of their own.

Motorcycle convoys are the coolest shows on the road, especially for the 95 % of us who do not own a motorcycle.

Whichever motorcycle you covet but fear riding, BRP offers a safer, more stable, three wheeled version.

The Spyder felt safer than a standard motorcycle — safe enough to drive.

A lifelong adrenaline junkie, the Ottawa - born software pioneer fell in love with the fastest and most dangerous sports there are: professional race car and motorcycle driving.

Everyone knew Harley as the granddaddy of motorcycling, but there was a low degree of relevance for them.

The annual global motorcycle market has been valued at roughly $ 70 billion.

«It's a safer vehicle than a traditional motorcycle,» Boisjoli says.

A 2014 survey conducted by Powersports Business magazine and RBC Capital Markets indicates retailers that sell BRP vehicles are outperforming their competitors: 32 % of BRP dealers reported an increase in motorcycle sales of at least 20 % in the fourth quarter of last year (compared with 13 % for dealers overall), and 42 % of BRP dealers expect another 20 % jump in sales for 2015.

Cruisers represent the majority of motorcycles sold in the world.

After building and test - driving a couple of prototypes, he sent a polling team to the Montreal motorcycle show, to seek out people who didn't own motorcycles and ask them why.

Lapointe presented his designers with a pared - down definition of «motorcycle» upon which they could build: It had to have fewer than four wheels and feature straddle seating for the driver.

The authors tell the story of a cluster of tiny fabricators in China's Chongqing province that, without centralized coordination, managed to produce cheap, quality motorcycles that have decimated Honda's global market share.

In one Youtube video, a Spyder went up in a ball of flame at the annual Thunder in the Valley motorcycle rally in Johnstown, Pa..

For example, there's a lot of excitement around motorcycling with South Asian and East Asian communities here in particular, for example.

First, one of Canada's most storied firms — the inventor of the snowmobile — will transform itself into a motorcycle company.

«The Spyder is the ideal vehicle for newcomers to motorcycles,» says Boisjoli.

People had never seen such big motorcycles on Indian roads before, and we were able to show people that Harley is the perfect match for Indian roads.

The market there is dominated by commuter motorcycling, and that's a commodity market.

But that doesn't mean it's a motorcycle.»

Developing «a worldwide, renowned brand in the automotive - motorcycle - lifestyle genre that was as cool to Grandma and the grandkids as it was to Mom and Dad» — that was the end goal.

«To make a motorcycle better and faster, you have to find ways to put it together that no one else thought of.»

This Android - powered skull protector is driving motorcycle safety into the digital age.

After landing, the convicts continued their escape on motorcycles.

As the Trump administration considers what action to take on trade tariffs on steel and aluminum, European Union and Chinese officials are considering taking aim at politically strategic products made in the U.S., such as bourbon and motorcycles.

Reportedly in its sights: items such as Harley - Davidson motorcycles, whose corporate headquarters is in House Speaker Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin.

But he also holds the land - speed record for production motorcycles: a breakneck 181 miles per hour on his 1993 Kawasaki ZX - 11.

The path from technical apparel to high fashion is perilous (just ask Belstaff, whose runway obsession nearly cost them their street cred before they found their way back to real motorcycle gear).

If our trading partners retaliate as they have threatened (the European Union says it will target blue jeans, orange juice, Kentucky bourbon, and Harley - Davidson motorcycles, among other products) American producers stand to lose billions in export revenues and thousands of Americans could lose their jobs.