Like Kawasaki’s Vulcan line, Honda has had Shadow cruisers in its lineup since the early 1980s. Over the past three decades, engine displacements have...
Japan’s Big Four have been fierce competitors for decades, and they’ve all been making cruisers geared toward the American market since the Reagan era....
Suzuki has unveiled three additional blacked-out Suzuki Boulevard cruisers—the Boulevard C90 B.O.S.S., the Boulevard M109R B.O.S.S., and Boulevard C50 B.O.S.S.
Suzuki stripped away the C90T...
Last year, more new touring motorcycles were sold than bikes in any other individual street bike category, even cruisers. Touring includes luxury performers such...
The reborn-yet-again Indian Motorcycle, this time under the auspices of Polaris Industries, which acquired the legendary company in 2011, reached a significant milestone over...
Fully embracing the popularity of stripped-down, back-to-basics customization as well as the need to offer cool, affordable motorcycles to attract new and young buyers,...
Custom Vehicle Operations is Harley-Davidson’s skunkworks, the division where new designs, features, paint schemes and accessories are conceived and implemented on limited-edition models. Each...
During the International Motorcycle Show in New York City on Friday, Victory Motorcycles kicked off its 15th Anniversary celebration with the introduction of a...
"Last minute…but epic!”
The attention-getting email was from Manny Pandya, the younger of the Amazing Pandya Brothers, two quick-witted gearheads who handle press relations for...
From the menacing, brushed-nickel skulls on its prow and tank, to the smoky graphics swirling around its sharknose fairing, Harley-Davidson’s 2012 FLTRXSE CVO Road...
By Greg Drevenstedt * Photography by Kevin Wing
Whereas the CVO Road Glide Custom is freighted with extras (see page 30), the new-for-2012 Harley-Davidson FLS...
Victory has done an impressive job competing with Harley-Davidson in terms of engineering and styling, but the young brand, launched by Polaris in 1998,...
Indian Motorcycle is proud to debut for 2013 the elegant and powerful Chief Vintage Limited Edition. Featuring a pearl white and thunder black two-tone paint...
(This Retro Cruiser Shootout was published in the June 2012 issue of Rider Magazine.)
Aggressive, big-inch, V-twin cruisers with style and muscle have always been...
(This article was published in the July 2012 issue of Rider magazine.)
Story by Greg Drevenstedt, Photos by Nelson and Riles
Starting in the late ’70s,...
At Harley-Davidson’s West Coast unveiling of two mid 2012 models, at well-known biker hangout Cook’s Corner in Trabuco Canyon, California, Paul James, Director of...
After unveiling its new 2012 Hard-Ball at the International Motorcycle Show in Long Beach, California, Victory Motorcycles is revealing another all-new model at the...
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