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Article: Sixth annual V-Twin Expo: Big Dog continues growth pattern.(MOTORCYCLE)(Big Dog Motorcycles production figures)(Interview)
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- Powersports Business
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- March 13, 2006
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CINCINNATI -- The aircraft and auto industries, surprisingly enough, are playing a role in Big Dog Motorcycles' escalating growth.
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Big Dog, the second largest American manufacter of V-twin motorcycles, experienced another growth year of production in 2005, President Nick Messer said in an interview with Powersports Business at the recent V-Twin Expo.
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Big Dog manufactured roughly 5,000 motorcycles in 2005, about 10 percent more than the prior year.
"In the earlier years, we were rampin' up (production) by 30 percent per year," Messer said of Wichita, Kan.-based Big Dog, which ...