Did you buy a new motorcycle this year? Were you happy with the experience? According to the J.D. Power and Associates annual customer satisfaction report, there’s a good chance that you were. The study, now in its 14th year, found that customer satisfaction generally improved in the motorcycle industry. The study looks at six major [...]
Honda’s wholly-owned motorcycle production and sales subsidiary in India, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI), will be expanding its motorcycle production capacity. HMSI’s second plant is currently under construction and a and a third production facility is being planned to keep up with the increasing demand in India. Honda’s second plant is expected to be [...]
Zero Motorcycles started back in 2006 with Neil Saiki and his wife, Lisa, building the first electric-powered motorcycles in their garage in Scotts Valley, California. From that typically entrepreneurial beginning – when the company was actually named Electricross – Saiki guided the company to where it is now; over 60 employees, large-scale production facilities and [...]
Dymag wheels have enjoyed a rather positive industry reputation for many years and their products have seen extensive use on roads and circuits all over the world. That was until 2009 and the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression hit Dymag hard, and they had to enter administration – thus the factory ceased production [...]
It’s no secret that the motorcycle industry is struggling. Sales aren’t even close to where they were five years ago, but manufacturers and the MIC are doing all they can to breathe some life back into bikes. The “Revive Your Ride” campaign, as well as the “Get On” campaign, have played a big role in [...]
At the end of 2010, the MIC released sales numbers that gave a bleak outlook for the 2011 season. But after one month, it looks like 2011 could be one of the best years for the motorcycle industry in recent memory. Two-wheel vehicle sales in January of 2011 were 25.5% higher compared to January 2010. [...]
While researching a report from the American Motorcycle Industry Council of motorcycle sales being down for 2010, we ran across some interesting posts on some motorcycle sites. Paul Sr. of OCC is selling off some of his motorcycles. Times are bad for the motorcycle industry all over, 440,000 motorcycles sold in 2010 which is 82000 [...]
Yamaha Motor Company announced recently that their European operations will once again endure a factory closure, this time in Spain. The Japanese company has said that up to 80% of the jobs at the plant will be affected by the shuttering. In 2009, Yamaha closed their Italian plant as a direct result of the market [...]
Moto Morini has had a long and storied era in the motorcycle industry; since it was founded by Alfonso Morini in 1937 the company has been through at least five different owners. Most of those ownership changes have come over the last quarter-century or so, though. During that period, many large and sometimes disruptive changes [...]
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