V-Twin Expo Shows off Rinehart Racing and other top Manufactures

All of the best manufacturers were in attendance at the V-Twin Expo held in Cincinatti this past weekend. Battistini, Cycle Visions, Daytona Twin Tec, Klockwerks, Performance Machine, Rinehart Racing, Vance & Hines, Wimmer Custom Cycle were all their with great displays of 2010 product offerings.

It was evident from conversations with all the manufacturers Axiom regularly purchases from that the industry has changed for the better.  One of the characterizations I can make is as an industry we are getting back to our roots, producing quality parts for Harley Davidson and custom motorcyles.  There are still the manufacturers not caring about their customers but they are slowly falling by the wayside.  Talking with a number of other dealers what I heard as is what I hear from our customers is that the customer is looking for innovative quality products at a good price.  More and more customers are looking for products made in the US not China.

One of the stories that caught our attention is Rinehart Racing completing the transition from previously selling their products exclusively through Drag Specialities which were manufactured by Bub exhausts to now selling directly to dealers and CCI doing everything in-house.  Rinehart Racing now manufactures the exhausts and has increased the warranty to 18 months on their exhausts.