Harley-Davidson Hooks Skaters Up With Free Bikes!

Besides this year’s Emerica Wild Ride taking place in the bolstering heat of the dirty south, where skater road warriors will have to fend off the immense insects that dwell in the humidity, there is an upside this year. Harley-Davidson will take its newly released Dark Customs line on the Emerica Wild Ride this June in an effort to align the new motorcycle designs with a younger demographic. As an experiential marketing tool, Harley-Davidson will be giving Emerica’s sponsored team of pros the new bikes to ride during the fourth annual Wild Ride. Word up.

Andy Benka, Harley-Davidson director of market outreach, said, connecting the “grittier and raw” Dark Customs line to the Wild Ride was an authentic way to connect with its next generation of riders.

“This generation of bikers isn’t interested in a bike they have to polish every day,” Benka said. “The… line cuts against many grains of [traditional] Harleys.”

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WORLDWIDE SKATEBOARDING » Juice magazine (pools, pipes & punk rock) says:
November 20, 2008 at 12:38 pm
[...] concrete skateparks in Canada. On one of the last pages there is also a small interview with Andy Benka, the director of market outreach for Harley-Davidson. He talks about the Wild Ride and how Heath Kirchart has been one of the inspirations for their new [...]