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What's going to motivate you to get on the bike again? Anna Beukes, CAPE TOWN...
...Buell designers own their parts through the manufacturing process. "If your part design isn't working, you have to go over to the line or to the supplier and face the person," says Buell. "People come back with a whole different perspective of how important their job is." Each bike requires 450 parts, so an employee possesses about 30 parts on average per new bike. "If your team doesn't deliver the right part, you live with it, and that can be painful," says Abe Askenazi, senior director of analysis test engineering process...
...down-home, out-of-the-box thinking, Buell serves as a testing ground for new ideas. At its core is a small-town team designing and assembling motorcycles in ways that give every employee ownership and even resonate with customers. And Buell gives Harley entrée into the sport-bike market and access to its insanely loyal fans, who might cross over to a Harley cruiser once they tire of Buell's adrenaline rush...
...Learning to ride a bike without training wheels was more of the same. If two heads are better than one, why aren’t four tires better than two? I simply could not wrap my mind around the fact that a couple thin pieces of rubber should be trusted to uphold my hulking 50-pound frame. All that stood between the delicate skin of my knee-caps and the jagged battlefield of a sidewalk was some bouncy plastic? Sorry, not happening...
...have made some progress. You can often find me sporting Converse sneakers (laces self-tied), and if I were unfortunate enough to live in the Quad or have an athletic bone in my body, you can rest assured that I would be the proud owner of a two-wheel bike. I can stay afloat in a pool, and somehow I did learn to do a cartwheel. I even welcome my future of battling photocopy machines and printers with open arms (I make no promises regarding fax machines however—these remain a mystery...