Big power across the board
And all quiet on the gearbox front
Gateway, Colo., Aug. 5—“Sweet tranny.” Those are words you might expect to hear uttered...
One hot trio
A sweet street rider for the motorcycle cougar
Garden Grove, Calif.—When I got the chance to test ride the new Champion Sportster XL1200...
Kymco has announced three new scooters for 2011:
Kymco Downtown 300i
With the open-road performance of a maxi scooter and the agility of a sportbike, the...
Just a taste of trouble
Tripping on a time-warp rigid
Roanoke, Texas, Feb. 20—The oversized, fenderless front tire hummed against the wet pavement, casting a ribbon...
A long jump from the trailer park
Keeping it simple, clean and convergent
Lodi, Calif.—One could safely bet next week’s allowance that the big brains in...
Bringing a clever concept home
With Tour Pak affixed, the horizon’s the limit
With the introduction of the 2010 FLSTSE CVO Softail Convertible, The Motor Company...
The demise of an important marque
Let’s hope it’s just ‘so long’ and not ‘good bye’
Included in Harley-Davidson’s quarterly financial report issued on October 15...
Ride This Way
Steven Tyler’s production customs
Manchester, N.H., June 15–16—Oh, baby. The eye-blistering kicks, the skin-tight, embroidered jeans, the impossibly lithe body and miniscule waist,...
Riding a race winner
Next to the stock Buell streetbikes lining Road America’s pit wall in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, the GEICO-sponsored AMA Pro Daytona SportBike...
Anybody who thinks that the British motorcycle industry was blind-sided by the invasion of Japanese motorcycles has not read his or her history.
Lots of...
Game changer
Reinventing custom cool—and competence
Daytona Beach—The Wolf’s swirling blue and white paint scheme looking like a whitecap breaking over the entire length of the...
Shapeshifter
The top Dog resurfaces—with baggage
Cincinnati, Feb. 7—The waiting game for the re-emergence of the Big Dog Motorcycles elusive premiere mount, the Bulldog, ended at...
Creating your own Convertible
One sweet suite of detachables
The clean-sheet redesign of the FL Tourer chassis for 2009 brought a long list of fundamental improvements...
Expanding the kennel
New Wolf wows; Coyote supercedes Mutt
Costa Mesa, Calif., October 21–23—2009 marks the 15th anniversary of Big Dog Motorcycles and they celebrated in...
(This Retrospective article was published in the October 2008 issue of Rider.)
Story by Clement Salvadori • Photography by Steve Ready
Back in the 1960s Spanish...
Make mine a triple
Three-wheeling in the Black Hills
Piedmont, S.D., August 7—As dyed-in-the-wool two- wheelers, our history with trikes has been quite limited. However, as...
(This Retrospective article was published in the September 2008 issue of Rider.)
Story by Clement Salvadori • Photography by Don Danmeier
Anyone shopping for a motorcycle...
Photography by Kevin Wing
Motorcycles included in this review (2008 model year): Honda Nighthawk, Kawasaki Ninja 250R, Star V Star 250, Suzuki GZ250, Honda 750...
Cruisers are known as unruffled, laid-back bikes with slow-revving engines and a certain presence. And the greater engine displacement they have, the more laid-back...
The hundred-dollar holiday
Doing the Mono-econo boogie on a Buell
Three hundred miles from home and 7,800 feet above sea level, the tent’s pitched, the kitchen’s...
We've seen them at rallies and rolling down the road, three-wheeled vehicles based on motorcycles that are referred to as "trike conversions." The conversion...
