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The Good Life – March-April 2017

Featuring Joe Karvonen - Motorcycle enthusiast and owner of Sisufab. Local Hero - Korean War Vet, Wilbert Scheffler, Gun Safety 101, How to Tie a Bow Tie and more in Fargo Moorhead's only men's magazine.

Featuring Joe Karvonen - Motorcycle enthusiast and owner of Sisufab. Local Hero - Korean War Vet, Wilbert Scheffler, Gun Safety 101, How to Tie a Bow Tie and more in Fargo Moorhead's only men's magazine.

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“I find myself concentrating more on making other people happy<br />

than on anything else. Making money is just a byproduct. If you<br />

concentrate on making money, you aren’t very happy.”<br />

that Brittany is also into power sports and has plans to<br />

explore road racing this year.<br />

In their spare time, Joe and Brittany love to go ice racing:<br />

“We put studded tires on our dirt bikes, haul them to a<br />

friend’s lake place, plow a track on the ice, and go ride.”<br />

Joe also enjoys non-motorized recreation, of the bicycle<br />

kind, as a way to keep in shape and relax.<br />

What’s on the horizon for Joe and Sisufab? First off, he<br />

is helping to organize an indoor motorcycle flat track<br />

race at the Schollander Pavilion at the West Fargo<br />

Fairground this <strong>April</strong> 29th. Flat track racing is highly<br />

competitive and fast-paced and is also sometimes<br />

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referred to as “dirt track” racing. <strong>The</strong> last time flat<br />

track racing happened in West Fargo was in the 1980s.<br />

Joe is hoping this event will help spark excitement for<br />

motorcycle racing in this community again.<br />

For his business, Joe said, “Our future goal at this point<br />

– our achievable goal – is to try to find a new building<br />

to grow our business in size physically. Our shop is new,<br />

but it is small. We keep it tidy and clean but it is too little<br />

for what I have on a day to day basis.”<br />

Joe looked forward: “We have the hopes of expanding<br />

into doing more of a dealership set up, but not on a<br />

big scale. We have a strong market here. I am pretty

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