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."

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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.

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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.

Motorcycles are sexy, fast and lately, thieves like them, too. In Fort Lauderdale, one burglary case is partially solved and police are asking the public for help with another.

Surveillance video released Wednesday shows two bikes — a 2004 black Honda CBR 1000 and an orange 2007 Suzuki GSZR 1000 — being stolen at 4 a.m. from the Berkley South Condominium at 3015 N. Ocean Blvd. on Nov. 14.

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Check out this video from Andrew Quinones: My first short film I made for film school. Motorcycles are a big part of life. I wanted to make a film to show how intimate we get with the road. Most people ride to get away from the daily grind and be alone. Even if you are riding with a friend, your own mind is what you have a conversation with. Others like to just take a drive in their car, but once you ride a motorcycle, the open road is never the same.

Song:A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
Artist: Stars of The Lid

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