German motorcycle industry magazine Bike & Business will stage its annual industry conference and awards at its Würzburg headquarters on 23 November.
It has emerged that while serious bids were indeed received for the sale of Ducati, the powerful German unions, who account for half of the seats on owner Volkswagen’s advisory board, were united in opposition to the sale. Bajaj Auto and the Italian Benneton investment fund were believed to have been favourites to win the bidding war for Ducati, with some reports suggesting that Royal Enfield owner Eicher Motors increased its initial par bid of € 1.5m to some € 2m.
Slated for January 14 – 16 at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry in the UK, Motorcycle Trade Expo 2018 reports that over 90 percent of available booth space was already sold by the end of September.
Premier Helmets is the latest to be hit by counterfeiters, with a fake helmet site using cloned images of Italian vendor PMR’s genuine Premier brand helmets. The company points out that unless the website is clearly loading as www.premier.it , then it is not their genuine, official site.
Dutch apparel manufacturer Rev’It! and Italian accessory designer Rizoma have joined forces, with Rev’It! USA taking over exclusive rights to distribute the Italian hard parts brand’s products in the United States and Canada from the Rev’It! USA headquarters at Brooklyn.
