When you’re Robert Fisher and you’ve been given less than two weeks to completely customize a 2011 Kawasaki Vaquero Cruiser to be prominently displayed at one of the biggest bike shows in the country, the first thing you do is get on the horn with other manufacturers of custom bike parts. Fisher is the founder of [...]
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Jody Perewitz is well versed in the art of creating buzz. She’s the marketing coordinator for Perewitz Cycle Fabrication in Bridgewater, Mass., and the daughter of Dave Perewitz, the legendary custom motorcycle builder. Seems Jody’s been surrounded by gears and grease her entire life, and where we come from, that’s a good thing! Many people credit [...]
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
You’ve got to figure that Gregg DesJardins, owner of Gregg’s Customs in Campbell, Calif., must be feeling a bit like Col. John “Hannibal” Smith these days. Gregg played a big role in a successful effort
Thursday, April 7, 2011
When it comes to showcasing the 2011 Performance Machine catalog, we went out and purchased three classic Harley-Davidson motorcycles and then completely renovated all three. The purpose of this primping was to show you — our customers — just what magic you could perform on your own ride, using PM motorcycle parts and accessories . [...]
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
This year we figured out that one way to dramatically showcase the parts and accessories featured in our 2011 Performance Machine catalog would be to renovate a trio of classic motorcycles. That way, we could illustrate in living color just what PM motorcycle parts and accessories can do for your machine. Earlier this month, we [...]
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Back in October we penned a blog post about a few new bikes purchased by Performance Machine for the purpose of showcasing two new PM parts and accessories highlighted in our 2011 catalog (see What Would You Do if You Were in Our Boots?). Since that blog post ran, we added a third motorcycle to [...]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
When it comes to charitable acts, what usually happens is there’s a good cause, and then some good people who want to do good things to promote that cause. One thing leads to another and pretty soon the above-mentioned good people are calling other good folks for help. Such is the case with this year’s [...]
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
We took a drive down to Harley-Davidson Westminster recently where we purchased a pair of brand spanking new motorcycles to showcase our 2011 line up of parts and accessories. By the way, before going any further with today’s post, we owe a shoutout to H-D Westminster sales rep Tracy Todd for helping us pick out [...]
Monday, August 23, 2010
Thank you to all the enthusiastic fans who voted for their favorite motorcycle in the PM August Bike of the Month contest. No doubt, this month’s top 2 finalists were able to transform their motorcycles using Performance Machine products. The top honor this month goes to – John K. whose 1999 Dyna Super Glide Sport, [...]
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Every year, the folks at Performance Machine look forward to designing and fabricating a new custom motorcycle that will be used throughout the year to showcase PM products. You might think of these bikes as a sort of mannequin, but with much more personality. For our 40th anniversary, we really needed to do something special [...]
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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