Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Harley has its stretched and slammed Rocker, and Star has its likewise chopper-inspired Raider for 2008. The bike is definitely a step toward the radical: fork rake is 39.2 degrees! The alloy frame’s high-altitude headstock, though, sports a 33-degree rake to help preserve handling, the latter point also being the reason that the rear tire [...]
Back in June, we brought you news of a revised 2008 Hayabusa, but other than Suzuki-supplied press-kit information, we couldn’t tell you that much. Usually, you’d have to wait until the press intro, then you’d have to wait until the editor got back, decompressed, scanned his notes, wrote his story, had the copy edited, approved, [...]
In our industry we like to speak dismissively of “drastically restyled taillights” or our all-time favorite, “bold new graphics.” These are the recourse of manufacturers who need a new model, can’t fit it into the budget this year, and therefore redo only the affordable stuff—paint and plastic—while leaving the base model (and its amazingly expensive [...]
Good job, bike-makers of the world! How’s this for parity? Of the Ten Best spots open to 500 or so individual motorcycle models available for sale in the U.S. in 2007, seven manufacturers from six different countries are represented. And the ones that didn’t make the cut were oh, so close. Bottom line? In the [...]
In the September issue of Cycle World, I detail a 2200-mile cross-country trip with my 65-year-old mother riding shotgun. Sound like fun? Actually, it was the trip of a lifetime, but when preparing for such a trek with a close family member, keep the following in mind. SAFETY: Correctly fitting gear is critical. A slightly [...]
Frankly, the CW editorial fascination with Nortons, vintage Triumphs, Velocettes, Norvins, Clamatos and things sometimes leaves me scratching my head, but I am a joiner, not a fighter. That got me wondering—how will the bikes I love appear to the kids when they are “vintage.” Which got me thinking—since I missed out on the dot.com [...]
Here’s some extra material and photos from our August, 2007 Race Watch feature “Man, Bike, Gravity,” about the Red Bull X-Fighters freestyle motocross competition. In one way, Travis Pastrana has outpaced MotoGP star Valentino Rossi. The American has already successfully completed the transition from two to four wheels. While the Italian flirted with Ferrari in [...]
Erik Buell finally has his wish. After lobbying, conspiring and struggling by all possible means, he finally has his own engine. The model it powers, expected to hit showrooms late this year, is the 1125R, with 146 crankshaft horsepower, given at 9800 rpm. This is an all-new machine with the usual short, quick-turning Buell wheelbase [...]
You’ve read the rumors, now see the video. Buell will pull the wraps off a new and much more serious sportbike, the 1125R, at its international dealer show Sunday, July 8th, but the wonders of the web have delivered this Buell-produced video of the bike in action a day early, courtesy of our news-sniffing mates [...]
Spending a week in Spain track testing the latest crop of sportbikes is never dull. While I may have been a bit busy seat-hopping among the 13 testbikes to have noticed much of anything taking place outside my personal field of view, there were more than a few photogs around snapping digital frames with all [...]
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