The new 2010 Harley Davidson Sportster Iron 883 is the sixth addition to this club and comes blacked-out from fender to fender. In fact, its claim to fame is that this Sportster has more blacked-out components than any other model in the H-D family.
The 2009 MadAss Sachs 125 sports an air cooled 4 valve single engine that's good for 124cc. This is actually more than enough juice to push the 220 lbs (dry weight) MadAss around at a nice clip. The transmission is manual (Yes!) and this is a huge plus which makes the MadAss more motorcycle than scooter.
The 2009 Roehr 1250SC is an exotic superbike that has all of the technological advancements and excellent componentry you'd find on an Italian superbike but is surprisingly produced in the US. Not only is it the quickest and fastest bike that you will find built in America, it is also the most powerful with 180 hp engine mated with a 5-speed manual gearbox.
The estate of Barr Ashcraft, best known for his work documenting the Vietnam War with his camera, is selling over 50 classic motorcycles, 170 classic cars and trucks, and 70 classic tractors. The sale takes place July 6-7th in Massachusetts.
Harley-Davidson would seem the last company on earth that needs to cast itself as an outsider. Haven’t its products always been the first choice of riders who style themselves as individualists? The high-riding Buell Ulysses can cope with unpaved roads; optional luggage adds storage capacity for long-distance trips.
While 175 horsepower is just adequate in most cars, a 175-horsepower engine in a motorcycle that weighs 560 pounds \342\200\224 the recipe Kawasaki used to create its Ninja ZX-14 \342\200\224 results in performance that is simply over the top: 0-to-60 miles an hour in 2.7 seconds and a maximum speed just shy of 190.
A motorcyclist died after he was struck by lightning while riding in rush hour traffic between Denver and Boulder, police said. Witnesses reported seeing a flash of light shortly before the motorcyclist struck the center divider on U.S. 36 Wednesday, police spokesman Tim Read said.
BMW has developed a helmet with integrated Bluetooth so that both riders on the same bike or on separate bikes can communicate wirelessly with each other. Shouldn't be long before SA helmets for instructors come out.
Irbit is a small city in western Siberia, situated on the bleak plains east of the Ural Mountains. In the main square, it has a statue of Lenin that cheeky capitalists have painted pink.
The Soviet army used Urals in World War II. That monument is not the only thing that distinguishes Irbit: its 43,000 or so permanent residents are said to own, in toto, some 60,000 motorcycles.
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BMW will offer Automatic Stability Control (ASC), a.k.a. traction control, as an option on touring models in its K and Boxer Series motorcycles in 2007, according to a press release issued by the German motorcycle manufacturer.
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