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High Plains Driftin’ Video Ducati Diavel. Dry lake bed. Steel shoe. Action!

Sometimes you just need to push the boundaries. Like Ducati did with its power cruiser, the Diavel. So we took a Diavel Cromo the desert, and in the best spaghetti Western tradition, let the horse run free. We hope you like the ride.   More Ducati Diavel Content: » 2013 [...]

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We Have A Winner! One of our subscribers has won the Cycle World/Ride for Kids Honda CBR1000RR.

John Bretz—a Cycle World subscriber from Rockford, Indiana, who owns a couple of “slow and comfortable” Harleys—decided to buy five raffle tickets online after reading about the CW/Ride for Kids custom Honda in the pages of our magazine. Turned out to be the best $20 he ever spent, as this [...]

Angled Valve Stem

Ten Things I Wish The Motorcycle Manufacturers Would Do How to make the world of motorcycling a better place to live and ride.

1. Put angled valve stems on wheels, especially fronts fitted with two big brake rotors. Unless you’re a left-handed spider monkey, reaching straight stems with most conventional tire gauges is a bitch. 2. Design seats that better fit the shapes of human butts. There is no excuse for a seat [...]

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MV Agusta’s Young Boss Two years after the death of his father, Giovanni Castiglioni has put MV Agusta on the right path.

Still weathering its roughest crisis in more than 40 years, today’s motorcycle market is no smooth sea, but MV Agusta is one of the few companies that delivered a double-digit sales increase (38 percent) in the first quarter of 2013 over the same period one year before—and 2012 was a [...]