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MotoCorsa, North America’s Italian motorcycle headquarters, announced today the printing of its “SeDUCATIve vs. MANigale” 2013 wall calendar. Available for only $16 shipped*, the 2013 Ducati-1199 Panigale and-model calendar places the year’s most entertaining motorcycle photo shoot in the garages and offices of fans everywhere. Inspired by MotoCorsa’s  “seDUCATIve” photo shoot featuring model Kylie Shea Lewallen, the men of the MotoCorsa shop took it upon themselves to give motorcyclists everywhere some wall art to laugh and admire.  The MotoCorsa men recreated the original photos with stunning accuracy, replacing model Lewallen with themselves in similar attire. The end result can only be described as comical, a theme that will have purchasers smiling at their calendars throughout 2013. Available immediately for Christmas delivery, the 16 x 16” “SeDUCATIve vs. MANigale” calendar is priced at $16 including shipping and handling, making it the perfect stocking stuffer for Italian motorcycle lovers- man or woman- everywhere. Get yours HERE in the MotoCorsa store. *Free Shipping available within the US only. Elsewhere charges apply.

Stung by a slow market for motorcycles, Bruce Rossmeyer's Harley-Davidson dealership is closing its Fort Lauderdale store and consolidating that operation into its Sunrise location. The move will mean a loss of 22 jobs, a top executive said. The Rossmeyer group shut a Pompano Beach store in 2010 and later sold that site. The consolidation comes as motorcycle sales in the United States only slowly recover from the 2008 recession. That contrasts with auto sales, which have been growing at a fast clip from their depths. "You need cars. Motorcycles are luxury items, more aligned with yachts," said Jeff Cheek, general manager of Bruce Rossmeyer's Harley-Davidson dealerships in Broward County. "We have not had as much of a bounce back as the auto industry has had." Continue reading

Indian Motorcycles not only showed off Burt Munro's restored World's Fastest Indian, they fired it up at the recent Long Beach International Motorcycle Show. It was awesome and rocked the show! Below is a quick overview with Indian Motorcycle's own Robert Pandya. Make sure to check out the second video, so you can hear the beast roar!

  With a little help from a willing former owner and a commercial fisherman he does business with, a New Ulm man with a passion for motorcycles recently picked up a bike like he's never seen before. Ron Miller of New Ulm – who hauls live fish to the Asian market in New York City for a living – was recently contacted by Ken Seemann, a Dassel commercial fisherman whom he buys fish from. Seemann said he snagged something unusually heavy on Nov. 29 while seining (using a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water) for carp on the south side of Big Swan Lake in Dassel. Continue reading

  Over the course of the next nine issues, IronWorks is pleased to bring you a series of articles from S&S highlighting bikes built with components from their Flathead Power division. Nothing’s cooler than keeping that old iron on the road, and we’ll show you the lengths to which S&S has always gone to test and prove their products—and better yet, how these components can be integrated into existing motorcycles to extend their serviceable lives. Look for a new bike in each issue and on Bikernet; this time we have a conversation-starting 80” UL/WLA hybrid built as much for go as show. -Marilyn Stemp Check out the first installment.  

  Several out-of-the- country bike builders have recently contacted Bikernet. About 25 percent of our readership ride outside the United States. And we have no objection to featuring the riding styles, events, or bikes from any country. We recently received an e-mail from Craig at Denco Cycles in Surrey, B.C., Canada. Hit the photo below and find out about this Harman hot rod classic: