Motorcycle sales affected by fuel costs, area’s economic downturn - Tribune Chronicle- Topic: Fuel Economy

Bob Williams, left, sales manager at Warren Harley-Davidson Sales store in Bazetta talks with Brian Butream, who is trying to save gas money by riding his Harley Softtail from his home in Bergholz, near Steubenville, to his job at WCI Steel Inc. As bikers mark May as Motorcycle Awareness Month, when riders and motorists are urged to watch out for each other as summer approaches, high gas prices are helping area dealers withstand area job losses. They’re definitely helping sales,” Bob Williams, sales manager at the Harley store on Elm Road N. Harley-Davidson of Youngstown, now located 23 miles away in Canfield, broke ground recently for its renamed Harley-Davidson Bike Town outlet just 11 miles away but still in Mahoning County. read more

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