27/08/2009 by info.

Saxon Motorcycles Europe announces that their dealer network has been expanded with a new official dealer. Recently they have signed the contract with Chopper Spirit in Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal.

The owner of Chopper Spirit Rafael Murjal is enthusiastic: “next to building extreme choppers, we now can also offer the elegant and tough semi-custom Saxons to motor-lovers/fans. Saxon is a super completion of our current activities. The charisma and quality of the bikes are fabulous”.

The owners of Saxon Motorcycles Europe also respond: “in more and more countries in Europe we can show our bikes through our dealers. Especially Portugal is an important market for us.  Think of the beautiful nature, excellent roads, the beautiful weather and a population who likes to show itself.”  Saxon stands for power and quality, comfort and self expression. It is a custom built bike in the professional factory in the USA and therefore fits the driver excellently. It is a beautiful product, that retains its value.

Making the choice to own a Saxon is a true form of self-expression. Each Saxon is a bike which is custom built and therefore fits the driver completely. It is an elegant machine that retains its value. A motorcycle synonymous with style and abundant with charisma, that is an experience all on its own.

Each Saxon represents an unmatched level of comfort, sophistication, and reliability, complete with a 2-year factory warranty. Saxon is in Europe the number 1 USA production custom motorcycle.

This moment Saxon Europe has three models: the Warlord, the Firestorm and the Henchman. All models of Saxon Motorcycles will be present at Chopper Spirit.

For more information:

Saxon Motorcycles Europe

info@saxonmotorcycles.eu

www.saxonmotorcycles.eu

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15/08/2009 by info.

VIERA — Celebrity motorcycle builder Billy Lane said he has driven every day for nearly three years past a stretch of State Road A1A in Melbourne Beach where he fatally struck and killed Gerald Morelock in a head-on collision.
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It’s there, Lane said in court Friday, that “I pray to God for his soul and for his family.”

For the next six years, Lane will be an inmate in the Florida Department of Corrections after a judge delivered his sentence Friday in Morelock’s Sept. 4, 2006, death. Police said Lane was driving drunk — his blood-alcohol level at twice the legal limit — when his pickup collided with the 56-year-old’s motorcycle.

He had faced up to nine years in prison under the terms of a plea deal in which he pleaded no contest to one count of vehicular homicide.

“I take full responsibility,” Lane, choking back tears, told the judge before his sentencing. “I was very careless. I’m not looking for pity on myself. Whatever you decide today, judge . . . I hope you’ll look at Mr. Morelock and myself and make a fair decision.”

Circuit Court Judge Robert Berger also sentenced Lane to three years of probation and suspended his driver’s license for life.

Lane also must attend a victim awareness class and undergo random drug and alcohol testing during his probation. He already has completed a court-ordered class about driving under the influence, his attorney said.

The sentence capped three years of legal wrangling, which included a change in defense attorneys, a change in judges and a settlement of a wrongful death suit brought by the victim’s family. A civil suit filed by Lane’s passenger, who was injured in the crash, lingers in civil court.

The judge in June approved a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed to drop the DUI manslaughter charge, saying both charges carry the same penalty, and their goal was for Lane to accept responsibility.

In court Friday, Lane’s attorney, Greg Eisenmenger, argued for a sentence without prison time, citing a desire by Morelock’s family for a “positive resolution” and saying the need for restitution outweighed the need for incarceration.

BY KEYONNA SUMMERS • FLORIDA TODAY • August 15, 2009

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07/08/2009 by info.

For the first time since the World Championship of Custom Bike Building program made its debut in 2004, an American custom motorcycle engineer has won the market’s top honor of being able to call himself World Champion.

The winner, Dave Cook of Cook Custom Choppers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was voted World Champion by his fellow competitors at an event that defied motorcycle industry downturn expectations with an increased field of 83 custom bikes in total (compared to 67 in 2008), and one that is widely being hailed as showcasing the most advanced and diverse display of custom motorcycle design and engineering ever seen.

The 51 year old Cook is an internationally recognized engineer and creative genius whose passion for design and engineering excellence had seen him be the winningest American in the past two years, having been fourth and highest placed American competitor behind an international top-three in both 2007 and 2008.

“This is a dream come true”, said Cook, minutes after receiving the acclaim of the large crowd of motorcycle enthusiasts and fellow industry professionals who crowded into the downtown City of Sturgis Champions Park venue.

During the build-up to the contest, Cook’s highly anticipated, exquisite, hand-crafted “Rambler” was among the early favorites to become the first American built World Champion custom bike.

However, as competitors pulled their bikes in for competition run-checks and registration at the weekend, it became apparent that competition for top-honors was going to be wide open and fierce, with up to a dozen stunning machines in contention.

“I have dedicated the best part of three years to trying to win the World Championship, and finally I have achieved the ultimate recognition of my fellow professionals. It is very humbling”, Cook went on to say.

Once described as motorcycling’s “Pulitzers, Nobels and Olympics all rolled into one”, the Official World Championship of Custom Bike Building is staged annually during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, every August in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

It is the culmination of an annual series of worldwide events, including an annual European Championship, that sees hundreds of custom motorcycle design and engineering hopefuls embark on a quest for the opportunity to compete in USA against many of America’s finest motorcycle industry brains.

Dominated by engineers from Canada, Japan and Europe for the first five years since the Championship program’s inception in 2004, American motorcycle customizing has now convincingly broken through on its industry’s biggest stage with seven of the top ten competitors being bike builders based in USA.

Second place was scooped by another American, Kris Krome, of Freeland, Michigan.

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