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Here was an extremely enjoyable dual-purpose big single, a trail bike, with reasonable suspension and good manners. And a honkin’ great 500cc engine, knocking out more than 35 horses at ...
Read More »Retrospective: Suzuki SP500: 1981-1983
Retro/Vintage Motorcycle Reviews
2016 Triumph Street Twin – Road Test Review
In the 1960s and ’70s, Triumph sold more motorcycles in the U.S. than in the rest of the world combined. A great many of those bikes were the iconic Bonnevilles, which ...
Read More »2016 Triumph Thruxton R – First Ride Review
Read our 2016 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black review About the Thruxton: Take everything you just read about the T120, and toss it out the window. Despite the shared platform, the ...
Read More »2016 Triumph Bonneville T120 Black – First Ride Review
Hustling the new 2016 Triumph T120 through blustery ocean breezes somewhere east of Cabo da Roca—the westernmost point of continental Europe—I had to admit: They absolutely nailed it. As the ...
Read More »Retrospective: Ducati Monza Junior 160: 1964-1970
You can credit the Berliner brothers with this one. Joe and Mike had decided to make their fortunes by importing European (including British) motorcycles, beginning with Zundapp back in 1951. ...
Read More »Ariel 4G Square Four 1,000cc: 1937-1959
The magnificent Squariel! This one-liter engine was, in effect, two overhead-valve parallel twins standing vertically, with the two crankshafts geared together and all four cylinders fed by a single carburetor. ...
Read More »Retrospective: Ducati 860 GT and GTE: 1974-1975
When descriptions of a motorcycle run like this: “exceedingly ugly,” “slab-sided ugly duckling,” “Stateside reception…barely rose to lukewarm,” “judged a disaster,” it might well be expected that this was a ...
Read More »Moto Guzzi Announces New 2016/2017 Models
Moto Guzzi is rolling out several new models for 2016 and 2017. Joining the Stone, Special and Racer models in the V7 II line is the new 2016 V7 II ...
Read More »2016 Triumph Street Twin | First Ride Review
Photography by Alessio Barbanti and Matteo Cavadini At Milan’s EICMA Show last November (2015), Triumph presented five new parallel-twin motorcycles powered by all-new liquid-cooled engines—one 900cc model, and four 1,200cc ...
Read More »Retrospective: Yamaha XJ600S Seca II 600cc: 1992-1998
Sometimes we motorcyclists like to think our sport is relatively immune to the ups and downs of the world’s financial markets…but it ain’t so. Never doubt the marketer’s ability to ...
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