Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Kenny Dreer continues to enjoy his post-Norton “retirement.” When U.S. operations of the restart we put on hold in 2007, Dreer rediscovered his drag-racing roots, first on a dealer-sponsored Harley V-Rod Destroyer, then on his own big-block Kawasaki. Now he’s got Suzuki power. And Kenny’s golden years, it seems, are faster than ever: “I just [...]
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When it comes to the Mt. Rushmore of custom motorcycles—bobber, chopper, café-racer, street-tracker—it’s the latter that’s the most rational. Street-trackers have livable ergonomics, suspension at both ends and usually a pair of big ol’ twin disc brakes up front. Think of ‘em as choppers for the thinking man… It’s one of the reasons we’re huge [...]
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Stephen Julius, known hereafter as The Man Who Would Save Indian, swings into the company parking lot at the new Indian Motorcycle headquarters in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. The jet-setting captain of industry, with homes in London and Italy, could easily ensconce himself in the glove-leather seats of a Bentley or Ferrari; instead, he’s at [...]
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Let your orbs meander over the Yamaha Sakura, a concept bike shown at the last Tokyo Motor Show. Do you find its shapes, familiar, pleasing? That’s the whole idea behind retros. Classic styling cues—in this case, air-cooled V-Twin motor, spoked wheels, big, round headlight, crisply shaped fuel tank, flat seat—but with modern brakes, electrics, oil-tightness [...]
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The cast of characters bringing the Von Dutch Triumph back to life is growing. When we saw how bad the engine really was, Bill Getty was enlisted to perform the resurrection. Getty runs JRC Engineering, one of the country’s biggest Britbike parts distributors, supplying shops with the pieces needed to keep the Queen’s Iron on [...]
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Serendipity is a wonderful thing—you just can’t count on it. When former CW staffer Camron Bussard (now with Cobra USA) mentioned he was thinking of going vintage roadracing, I casually replied that there was a race-prepped Honda CB350 in the Cycle World garage that could be had for a good price. Like candy to a [...]
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What’s this, an “all-new lightweight touring bike” from Honda for 2010? Er, not quite. Okay, the NT700V is new to the U.S., true, but it’s been sold in Europe since 1998, first as the Deauville 650, then as a 700. The bike’s 680cc liquid-cooled sohc V-Twin will be familiar to U.S. riders as the same [...]
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If one of the goals of an advertising campaign is to be talked about, Buell’s latest has to be considered a home run. In announcing the discontinuation of the Buell Blast, the two-page spread shows one of the bikes crushed into a cube. We’re told that it now makes, “…a killer ottoman. Or end table. [...]
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Restoring a stock motorcycle is basically a “cookbook” operation. The ingredients are well known; all that remains is for the chef—the restorer—to skillfully fold them all together. Bringing back to life a one-off customized bike like my Von Dutch Triumph is more involved—part archeological dig, part art interpretation, part scavenger hunt. This particular bike is [...]
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Grab a gander at Star’s 2010 VMax, just released and all spiffed up with a new set of duds for the next model year. Gone is last year’s malevolent black paint, replaced by a bright candy red. Light your fire? Then get on down to your local Yamaha shop. Mr. Max is still a limited-production [...]
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