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Summer Wholesale Pricing Has Arrived

Summer Slide It’s official – summer wholesale pricing has arrived. Average Wholesale Prices (AWP) declined for most major powersport product categories in June, right in line with typical seasonal behavior. Compared to the prior three months, domestic cruiser AWP declined 7%, metric cruisers declined 12%, sportbikes declined 2% and off-road was roughly flat except for

Dealers Report Burglaries On Rise

Is there a theft ring happening under our noses? By the looks of some news reports and emails we’ve been receiving, powersports dealers have been hit by a wave of burglaries lately.

Trikes: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

The three-wheeled motorcycle concept came out two years before Karl Benz was credited with creating the automobile. However, they have more or less been relegated to a small niche market within the industry.

Horny Toads & the Budweiser Flu

Dear Ma, I hope you’re doing well up there in heaven. We are doing fine down here in Dallas. We have been really busy lately. I have been going crazy trying to manage all my employees. We own six businesses and employ 80 people. Managing all these people is the hardest/worst part of what I

Q&A With MAG CEO Andy Graves

In a follow up to our Executive Interview in May with Tucker Rocky President Eric Cagle, we spoke to MAG’s CEO Andy Graves to ask some questions that were outside of Eric’s realm.

Sales: Are You Playing It Right?

People often look at sales as a war; it’s them against the customer, or it’s them against the other salespeople in the industry. I completely disagree.

The Evel Knievel Museum: Now Open

It’s not something any shop or dealership can do, constructing a two-story addition to house a vast collection of artifacts related to the world’s most iconic daredevil. But Historic Harley-Davidson (HH-D) in Topeka, Kansas has pulled off precisely that and in splendid fashion. Visitors access the new Evel Knievel Museum by a dedicated entrance, then,

Yamaha V-Max and V-4 Valve Clearance

The Yamaha V-Max showed up in 1985 and ran for more than 20 years in its first generation form. Derivatives of this V-4 engine were also used in the Venture, Venture Royale and Royal Star models. The firing order of this engine is cylinder: #1 (0°), #3 (180°), #2 (430°), #4 (610°). There is a

Subprime Credit Opportunities

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard dealers say that they don’t cater to the subprime audience – or better yet – they don’t have subprime customers. It is true that closing a transaction with a prime credit profile customer is usually faster and relatively easier since they are more likely to qualify for

GasGas Gets Serious

As the wraps came off the 2018 model year machine at the EICMA motorcycle expo in Italy last fall, the new ownership team from Grupo Torrot  Electric had just taken over and had something to prove. All the jokes about an e-bike company taking over a company called “GasGas” notwithstanding, the European media was mildly

Revival Cycles

Alan Stulberg was five years old when he got his first motorcycle. He says he was “obsessed with it.” He learned to work on bikes, and repaired motorcycles as a side job while he was going to school and getting jobs in technology and sales.

Life in the Vintage Lane

TODAY’S CUSTOM CULTURE IS HUGELY INFLUENCED BY MOTORCYCLING’S PAST It would be hard to argue the huge influence vintage motorcycling has had on today’s custom culture. We must remember an antique motorcycle is vintage but a vintage bike may not be an antique. Vintage actually represents the enduring characteristics of a period in time when