(This Retrospective article was published in the November 2008 issue of Rider.)
The Harley-Davidson buffs among us know full well what a “Shovelhead” is, but...
(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...
(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...
(This Retrospective article was published in the August 2008 issue of Rider.)
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
Nicknames can be good, flattering, positive…or quite the...
(This Retrospective article was published in the June 2008 issue of Rider.)
STORY AND PHOTOS BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
It was the early 1980s when the Japanese...
(This Retrospective article was printed in the July 2008 issue of Rider Magazine.)
In the mid-1970s Moto Guzzi’s outlook was affected by Alessandro de Tomaso,...
(This Retrospective article appeared in the May 2008 issue of Rider Magazine.)
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
You just bought a famous motorcycle company, and...
By Jerry Hatfield
Most lawnmower factories still build the lowest-cost engines they can. American car and motorcycle factories did likewise from the early teens into...
(This Retrospective article was published in the April 2008 issue of Rider.)
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
This was a good bike at a good...
(This Retrospective article was published in the March 2008 issue of Rider.)
STORY AND PHOTOS BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
This little woodser was a tribute to good...
(This Retrospective article was published in the February 2008 issue of Rider.)
STORY by CLEMENT SALVADORI • photography BY Gary Rosa
The Europeans took off-road competitions...
(This Retrospective article was published in the December 2007 issue of Rider.)
STORY and photography BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
Get on this little Adventurer, turn on the...
(This Retrospective article was published in the November 2007 issue of Rider.)
STORY and photography BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
When Norton announced in December of 1987 that...
(This Retrospective article was published in the October 2007 issue of Rider.)
STORY and photography BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
This little machine was an anomaly when it...
(This Retrospective article appeared in the August 2007 issue of Rider.)
STORY and photography BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
If it succeeds the first time, make it even...
(This Retrospective article was printed in the June 2007 issue of Rider.)
STORY and photography BY CLEMENT SALVADORI
This really was a superbly entertaining machine, tremendous...
(This Retrospective article was published in the April 2007 issue of Rider.)
STORY BY CLEMENT SALVADORI, PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICK McNEILL
How much does a cylinder weigh...
(This Retrospective article was printed in the February 2007 issue of Rider.)
A very sensible motorcycle, this midsize touring bike, but perhaps too sensible for...
(This Retrospective article was published in the January 2007 issue of Rider.)
STORY BY CLEMENT SALVADORI • PHOTOGRAPHY BY GUIDO BURRATO
As 1952 rolled into 1953,...
(This Retrospective article was published in the December 2006 issue of Rider Magazine.)
Nothing like taking an old engine design from the shelf, dusting it...
(This Retrospective article was printed in the November 2006 issue of Rider.)
Finally, the Brits were coming out of their doldrums and presenting something new,...
If there were ever a contest to determine the toughest motorcycle built, this military-spec Zundapp would definitely be in the running.
It was designed to...
(This Retrospective article was published in the September 2006 issue of Rider.)
Story and Photography by Clement Salvadori
As has been said many times before, there...
(This Retrospective article was published in the April 2006 issue of Rider Magazine.)
When this Firebird Scrambler model showed up on American shores in 1968...
(This Retrospective article was published in the May 2006 issue of Rider.)
Most Americans are well familiar with the mythologized Vincent Black Shadow, but few...
(This Retrospective article appeared in the April 2006 issue of Rider Magazine.)
When this big Honda appeared in 1987, it swept through the motorcycle world...
