For anyone who has not yet attended one of the Cycle World International Motorcycle Shows this year, let me tell you, it’s like Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory for bike nuts. Okay, there aren’t any Oompa-Loompas strolling about, but the sheer number of motorcycles and related accessories present are enough to make any biker as fidgety [...]

What-ifs are so much fun. The one I’m enjoying at the moment is Norton’s planned liquid-cooled transverse Four, designed in the early 1950s by the same team that drew the 500-horsepower, 90-cubic-inch BRM V-16 Grand Prix car. If this date is right, design would have started at about the time it became known that Gilera [...]

My first street bike was a 1983 Honda V45 Interceptor purchased new from my local dealer. I depleted my life savings scratching together the necessary down payment for what was to ultimately become one of life’s expensive lessons. I was 21 years old at the time, with no prior road riding experience, but fell hard [...]

There is no way that I would try to convince you that the Barber Museum in Birmingham, Alabama, is anything but spectacular — it is. The same can be said of the Guggenheim’s Art of the Motorcycle exhibit that traveled the world at the beginning of this millennium. But after seeing former White Brothers-partner Tom [...]

Panic and Desperation! That is, if you own one of a particular group of 335 of Aprilia’s RSV4 streetbike. It seems that a straightening operation performed on the machine’s connecting-rods has in some cases created stresses that could lead to failure of the rod. According to the bulletin on the National Highway Transportation Safety Association [...]