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Patriot Signs Motorcycle Industry Exclusive with Top-Rated CRM Provider; Patriot Motorcycles Teams Up with ProResponse to Offer State-of-the-Art CRM Program to Dealer Network

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.--June 1, 2005--Patriot Motorcycle Corporation (Pink Sheets: PMCY) today announced it will launch a comprehensive Customer Relations Management (CRM) program with top-rated CRM firm ProResponse Incorporated of Phoenix, AZ. According to the exclusive agreement, Patriot will be the first company in the motorcycle industry to offer a CRM program powered by ProResponse, which has recently been ranked as the #1 CRM company in the U.S. by Automotive Dealer Monthly magazine.

The new Patriot ProResponse CRM program utilizes highly successful and effective database management techniques originally developed for leaders in the automotive industry (Ford, Chrysler, Chevrolet, etc.) to strengthen customer relations and ensure ongoing customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. It also incorporates a number of new, custom, proprietary CRM features designed specifically for the rapidly growing Patriot dealer network.

ProResponse will provide a wide range of sophisticated marketing and high-tech retention services for Patriot dealerships. These services include drawing customers into dealerships, encouraging repeat visits and presenting special offers up to - and through - actual purchases, sending out service reminders and making follow-up contacts with customers to promote repeat business. ProResponse also provides CRM services to numerous major firms in the automotive, recreational vehicle and financial/mortgage industries,

The customized Patriot ProResponse CRM program will also provide dealers with extremely valuable statistical and competitive data, customer surveys and will manage all after-purchase fulfillment - from delivering "Thank You/Welcome" packets to new customers to sending ongoing timely birthday greetings from the local dealership.

"This unique opportunity for our company," notes Jim White, Director of Marketing for ProResponse Incorporated, "is based on our firm belief that Patriot is rapidly emerging as an industry leader in the motorcycle and recreational vehicle market...especially with family and entry-level buyers. We are proud to play a role in helping to deliver the ongoing quality and excellence that has been promised. Together we can and will fulfill this expectation."

President of Marketing for Patriot Motorcycles Mark Green states, "We are committed to building a strong brand... supported with a top-rate professional dealer organization and network that is unified and consistent in every respect."

"Our new alliance with ProResponse... and the resulting exclusive Patriot Customer Relations Management program for the motorcycle industry... plays an important role in achieving this goal," Green adds.

About Patriot Motorcycles Corporation

Patriot Motorcycles (PMCY) is the exclusive distributor of the Yamoto line of Dirt Bike motorcycles and All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) manufactured in China. The company and its management are firmly committed to building the Yamoto by Patriot (TM) brand, to building a significant and substantial Domestic and International dealer organization and to distributing the finest products that consistently out-price the competition (by as much as 50%). Patriot is also the first and only company to offer a Five-Year Guarantee based on after-sale use of its co-branded zMAX(R) Micro-Lubricant. Additional Patriot branded products and accessories are also being evaluated. Yamoto by Patriot (TM) - poised to become the first great Chinese-manufactured brand.

Note: Statements contained in this release that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are made based upon information available as of the date hereof, and the company assumes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements. Editors and investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties and the company's actual results may differ from these forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are no limited to, demand for the company's products and services, PMCY's ability to continue to develop its market, general economic conditions and other factors that may be more fully described in reports to shareholders and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.