Daytona Twin Tec

Ignition Model and Wire Harness Kits

This Daytona Twin Tec kit for custom bike builds or replacing faulty stock ignition harnesses is available with or without coil and plug wires for '04-'06 Twin Cam and Sportster carbureted models with a single 12-pin connector or Twin Cam carbureted models with two 12-pin connectors.

The wire harness includes stock connectors for the coil, map sensor, crank position sensor and diagnostic port, as well as leads for ground 12 volt switched connection and tach wire.

DRAG SPECIALTIES
www.dragspecialties.com
www.d-tts.com

Motion Pro

Motion Pro Premium Cables for Indians

Californian specialist Motion Pro has introduced premium OE replacement control cables for Indian motorcycles.
"Providing smooth and precise performance and great value, we offer stock length cables and plus lengths for custom control applications. Premium cable housing options are also available to upgrade the look and feel of the stock cables. 

"Black vinyl housing provides a premium stock cable look, and for a cable which clearly stands out, Motion Pro  braided stainless steel Armor Coat housing combines looks with durability, and our popular Blackout cables feature black fittings on a black vinyl housing for the complete 'blacked out' look.  

Motion Pro replacement clutch cables are now available for select Indian Motorcycle models, starting with 2014-2020 Indian air-cooled Baggers.
Motion Pro makes "innovative tools and products that help maintain and repair motorcycles, ATVs and UTVs."

MOTION PRO
www.motionpro.com

Zodiac International

Zodiac International Additions

AGID Super Fat T-Bars

These handlebars are 1 1/2" (38 mm) super fat that bolt straight onto fork upper clamps. They work with both cable style throttles and electronic Throttle-By-Wire. Early style bars accept pre-2018 brake master cylinders, late style bars accept 2018 to present style brake master cylinders. They are available black powder-coated in early or late MX-X or 'Gripp' style.

Duo and Electra Glide Headlight Nacelle Kit

A perfect replacement copy of the OEM headlight nacelle on 1960-1984 FLH models, these kits come complete with headlight rim, DOT approved 7" sealed beam unit and handlebar top cover. They are available in chrome, polished or black.

HP Series M-8 Air Cleaner Kit

This performance air cleaner kit fits all M-8 powered 2017 to present Touring and Trike and 2018 to present Softails. The kits come with all required hardware, including breather tube, side cover to hide the servo motor, cables and injectors, and a washable air filter that accepts most 5" diameter center-bolt covers such as S&S Stealth or Brass Balls Cycles. The kits are available in black or chrome.

Le Pera Baron II Seats for Rigid Frames

A true Le Pera classic, these King and Queen-style rigid frame seats will complement any classic build. Seats measure 10" (25.4 cm) wide for driver and 6 3/4" (17.1 cm) wide for passenger, with a universal custom fit. They are available in buttoned, diamond or pleated stitch design.

National Cycle Touring Windscreens

These stylish bolt-on stock replacement screens are for the stock Batwing fairing. The screens are 4" (10 cm) high and fit all 2014 to present Electra Glide and Street Glide models. The screens are made from tough 3.0 mm Quantum hardcoated polycarbonate, "this high-quality material, along with state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques, provides outstanding impact strength and scratch resistance". They are available in choice of Fly Boy, Bad Boy and GeeBee styles.

ZODIAC INTERNATIONAL BV
www.zodiac.nl

American Prime Manufacturing

Main Shaft for 4-Speeds and Alternator Shroud

Southern California based American Prime Manufacturing specializes in clutches for American V- twins (Comp Master), but its new 4-speed transmission main shaft support and alternator shroud prove that "4-speeds won't ever die," says company President Ben Kudon.

"On the contrary, they are very much alive and popular, and these high-quality components are made from the original tooling here in the United States."
The castings are poured with high-grade die cast aircraft quality aluminum alloy with a percentage of silicone, copper and zinc. "We use a spectrometer to analyze the material for alloy content. All 'bad metal' is removed prior to the pour to get a perfect die cast part every time.
"These two parts have a unique over 50-year history and provide reliable, trouble-free operation if installed correctly."

AMERICAN PRIME MANUFACTURING
www.americanprimemfginc.com

Mupo

Mupo Custom - ST1 Shock and Falcon Cartridge

It is two years since Italian suspension specialist Mupo launched its Mupo Custom program, taking its race-bred street and sportsbike suspension experience and applying it to the handling and performance characteristics of heavier and less responsive Harleys.
In that time Mupo Custom has quickly established itself with a prominent reputation for premium H-D suspension solutions. 

ST1 shock

At the top of its Custom offer, the ST1 piggy-back style rear shock absorber (for pre-M8 Touring, Sportster, Dyna, V-Rod and Street 500/750 applications) features refined race-derived hydraulics and is available on request in various lengths from 11.5"(295 mm) to 15" (381 mm).
Mupo says that a pair of its ST1 shocks will improve control and comfort in all riding conditions - especially compared to stock shocks. Equipped with an external tank (piggyback) in steel, the ST1 shock absorbers are fully adjustable in compression, rebound and spring preload for optimal riding style settings and the wheelbase adjustment allows the rear axle to be raised or lowered, according to the driver's preferred riding position.
All components are entirely precision CNC-machined from high grade materials and the ST1 can be customized with red or black details/springs/body.

Falcon cartridge

They have a 14 mm stem, 35 mm piston, stem ø14 mm, an anti-cavitation separator piston between the nitrogen and 40 clicks of extension adjustment; 24 clicks of compression and spring load can be tuned in mm via the ring nuts.
Also seen here, Falcon 'Plug and Play' design front suspension cartridges (Softail, Dyna, V-Rod, XL) are equipped with compression, rebound and spring preload adjustments (40 clicks each of compression and extension), and feature a 22 mm aluminum cartridge, 22 mm sintered piston, 12 mm steel rod and chrome-silicon steel springs.

MUPO SRL
www.mupo.it

Rebuffini

Rebuffini Bolt-On Adjustable Hand Controls and TBW Grips

Founded in 1987, Bergamo, Italy based Italian parts and accessory specialist Rebuffini has these new bolt-on RR90_RG hand controls for 2015-2020 Road Glide models.
Available in red, black or gold anodized, compatible and seen here with the award-winning Müller Hydro Clutch, they are CNC precision machined from 6061-T6 heat-treated aluminum.

The radial brake master cylinders are machined from a single block of high quality aluminum - "innovative in form and construction technique and offering fatigue-free maximum performance and excellent braking feeling."
The adjustable lever features internal bushings for a vibration-free upgrade, and is said to be easy and quick to install. 

Also seen here are Rebuffini's matching precision CNC billet aluminum machined 'Wheelie' Throttle by Wire grips for 2008-2020 models, also in choice of gold, black or red. A set is also available for '14-'20 Street Glide models and all other '14-'20 Touring models.

REBUFFINI CYCLES
www.rebuffini.com

Comment by Editor-in-Chief, Robin Bradley

Do We Have Herd Immunity Yet?

As the international motorcycle industry continues to surf the waves of the pandemic, the fear of wipe-out is never far away. Regardless of how many waves we are destined to endure, sooner or later one of them will have rocks in it.
At present, based on reports from readers and customers and the latest available data on either side of the Atlantic, as I write this in early November, the signs are that motorcycle industry new unit sales remain surprisingly robust - unless your name is Harley-Davidson, but then we knew what was coming down the pike at it.
Is it sustainable? To be brutally honest, I don't think any of us really know if anything is sustainable anymore, and I still reckon that those who think they have the answers are following doctrinaire positions that screen out understanding of the questions.
In motorcycle manufacturer terms, whether or not it is the absence of H-D inventory in the market place or first hints of a genuine uptick in demand and profile, Indian Motorcycle unit sales are doing well (in the context of present output capacity planning), especially in Europe.
Ducati and BMW both recently published robust monthly or quarterly numbers, KTM and Husqvarna continue to do well, Triumph appears to be pushing ahead despite its waves of lay-offs this year, Piaggio's brands (principally Moto Guzzi, Aprilia and Vespa) are all seeing growth, and many other smaller, mostly Chinese made and/or owned brands are also doing well - again, especially in Europe, and especially those owned or distributed by Austria based KSR Group.
The Japanese 'Big Four' continue to have mixed fortunes. I think that it will turn out to have been Yamaha's year in terms of real progress, with Honda steady, Kawasaki growing and announcing that it is to spin off its motorcycle unit into a separate business, really only leaving Suzuki to contemplate its navel.
New CEO Jochen Zeitz unveiled more (mostly telegraphed) detail about the strategic background to what we are likely to see in the new 'HardWired' Harley strategic plan that is due to be unveiled in January - along with the 2020 full year fiscals and, presumably, the delayed MY 2021 offer.

Truth Decay

We already know that is going to include the expected 1,250 cc Pan America Adventure Tourer debut, which Harley has already been pimping on its international sites for some time, and that the change in new model year is both a pandemic spring shut-down response and a strategically rebuilt sales cycle leap into left field that makes Harley an outlier in such matters - whether or not it is a decision that proves to be prescient or problematic remains to be seen.
The Q3 numbers that were released ten days before I wrote this really didn't tell us anything much, excepting that the new Harley management team appears to be singing from the same page, and that page can be found under the general heading of 'The Blindingly Obvious' - and that is not meant as a criticism, quite the opposite.
The bravely touted "best Q3 income since 2015" headline did its job with most of the hard-of-thinking media industry for whom 'Truth Decay' set in a decade ago and allowed Harley to project that its present malaise sees it in a good place.
Most media channels, and even analysts and Wall Street commentators, allowed themselves to be blind-sided by the sharpening of focus and reignition of culture and sent Harley's share price to the kind of (still modest) level of over $35.00, not seen since February of this year.
Indeed, in congratulating her on her appointment, one of the analysts on the results conference call (October 27) warned newly minted CFO Gina Goetter not to get too used to seeing the stock market respond that well to her announcements - "it isn't always like this, as you'll no doubt find out," he said - if memory serves, I think he was from Morgan Stanley.
In fact, the truth that the decay in scrutiny has failed to report is that the results were beyond dreadful. The only reason the income was better than it had been recently (don't be fooled, it wasn't actually what you'd call 'good') was because Harley has been slashing costs and realigning everything, right down to the water coolers, as they try to draw a line under the wasted post Wandell years.
Do not get me wrong, this too is not a criticism. There is nothing wrong with overdue house cleaning and Harley has needed to try something dramatic since 2014. 'More Roads' was never the right road. When you are already having trouble trying to do too many things, trying to also do a bunch more in a market that was clearly in decline and morphing before our eyes was demonstrably naïve - the phrase commercial suicide comes to mind.
As Einstein famously said - to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is the very definition of madness. Under the prior CEO, Harley had been getting away with being allowed to keep swimming around an ever-smaller goldfish bowl for far too long.
Now, if the game-plan is to try to bottom out and give a robust foundation on which to "build back better," then rather like Keith Wandell's often criticised 2010 'slash and burn' road to survival, if this is the only legacy that Zeitz leaves behind him, then it is one of the most important ones anybody could engineer.
The phrase 'Keep It Simple Stupid' is often ascribed to Ronald Reagan and his Reaganomics school of economic thought. In fact, it first entered the lexicon in the late 1950s and early 1960s as an engineering term - one source I saw credited Kelly Johnson with coining the term - he of Lockheed Skunk Works fame.
Zeitz appears to have very quickly established that Harley had become way too complicated and was pursuing way too many customer groups while not in fact building on its core customers sufficiently well. 'Keeping it Simple' appears to be at the heart of what he is going to be doing as Harley CEO, and while there are plenty, especially among the dealer network, who will regard him as ill-equipped to "speak Harley" with the purists, he doesn't have to. That's not his job.
His job is to create the right environment that allows those who can address Harley's base to be able to do so without the message being drowned out by white noise. To give the bandwidth needed to be able to broadcast the purest of pure brand messages.
Doing so will buy Zeitz and buy Harley the time and strength needed to be able to start to amplify brand extension and nuance without drowning out core values.

Harley-Davidson

Serial 1 - "Powered by Harley-Davidson"

Back in the early 1990s Harley-Davidson systematically divested itself of what it then saw as its non-core operations - such as delivery vehicles, golf carts and other 'legacy' enterprises.
By 2010 it had re-grown a couple of extra limbs in the shape of Buell and MV Agusta, but CEO Keith Wandell dispensed with them at the time of the financial crisis - MV Agusta for the princely sum of around $4.00, having bought it for around $109m barely a year earlier.
Wandell had been hired as a Company Doctor, specifically to rescue Harley from impending doom, and fast forward a decade to another new CEO, this time Jochen Zeitz, and drastic surgery is again the order of day in Milwaukee.

This time though, in among the 'Rewire' highlights released alongside Harley's recent Q3 Fiscals, Zeitz has signalled that subsidiaries are back in fashion. Serial 1 Cycle Company is a new Utah based operation established to build on the bicycle and electric bicycle investments made in recent years as part of former CEO Matt Levatich's now abandoned 'More Roads' strategic plan.

"first eBicycles in March of 2021"

As a dedicated brand, Serial 1 will debut its first eBicycles in March of 2021. Taking its name from "Serial Number One," the nickname for Harley-Davidson's oldest known motorcycle, Serial 1 will combine "Harley-Davidson's world-class product development capability and leadership in two-wheel electric propulsion with the agility and innovation of a start-up brand dedicated exclusively to the eBicycle product and customer."

Aaron Frank, Brand Director for Serial 1 Cycle Company, is quoted as saying: "When Harley-Davidson first put power to two wheels in 1903, it changed how the world moved, forever. Inspired by the entrepreneurial vision of Harley-Davidson's founders, we hope to once again change how cyclists and the cycling-curious move around their world with a Serial 1 eBicycle."
Described as having been born at a "skunkworks deep inside Harley-Davidson's Product Development Center," the eBicycle project "began with a small group of passionate motorcycle and bicycle enthusiasts working with a single focus to design and develop an eBicycle worthy of the Harley-Davidson name.
"The decision was made to structure the eBicycle business into a new entity that could focus exclusively on delivering an optimal eBicycle product and experience. The Serial 1 brand is led today by a team of Harley-Davidson alumni including Jason Huntsman, President; Ben Lund, Vice President, Product Development; Aaron Frank, Brand Director; and Hannah Altenburg, Lead Brand Marketing Specialist.

"Combining the freedom and simplicity of a bicycle with the effortless joy of electric power, Serial 1's eBicycles will allow anyone to ride farther, faster and with less effort, making an eBicycle the perfect solution for urban commuting and recreational riding." Harley says that the global eBicycle market was estimated to be over $15bn in 2019 and is projected to grow at an annual rate of over 6 percent from 2020 to 2025.
"The dynamic, fast growing eBicycle space is at the forefront of a global mobility revolution," says Frank. "The formation of Serial 1 allows Harley-Davidson to play a key role in this mobility revolution while allowing Serial 1 to focus exclusively on the eBicycle customer and deliver an unmatched riding experience rooted in freedom and adventure."
Serial 1 Cycle Company, LLC, has been established as a Delaware limited liability company to "offer premium eBicycles that are guided by intelligent, human-centered design and crafted using the most advanced bicycle technology available."
www.serial1.com