Rat Bikes …
Bikes are cheap transpo - and "rat bikes" even cheaper transpo. You can pick one up - a functionally (and maybe even aesthetically) good one you can ride every day -...
What’s That Old Bike Worth?
I've got a friend who is looking to buy an old bike - an early '80s Honda Silverwing Interstate, like mine. Only this one's much nicer - with almost no miles...
Shipping a Motorcycle: The Nightmare Begins
There are two bear traps waiting to snap shut on your leg when buying a bike online. The first, of course, is buying the bike itself. If you're going by an...
2023 BMW K1600 GTL
Spend $50k on a new BMW car and you get a four cylinder engine. Spend half as much on a BMW bike and get a six cylinder engine - and a power-to-weight...
1975 Kawasaki S1 Rebuild: Installment Eight
There is light at the end of the tunnel - in fact, I can almost hear the spitting and popping of my soon-to-be operational S1's two-stroke engine. But first, a segue...
How Often Have You Been Shiny Side Down?
A recent poll in Superbike magazine asked the question, "How many times have you crashed/been knocked off in the past three years?"
The results of the poll, at the time I saw...
VW May Dump Ducati
Apparently, Volkswagen Group is considering selling off Ducati as the automaker seeks to streamline operations to fund a strategic overhaul after the emissions-cheating scandal, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
VW has...
A Little Therapy . . .
Owning a motorcycle is about more than just riding it. Caring for it is a big part of it.
There are sound practical reasons for caring about that, of course. A motorcycle...
Smog Police Gunning For Bikes….
The smog police have finally caught up with motorcycles - last bastion (excepting weed whackers) of relatively unregulated internal combustion.
The Environmental Protection Agency has come down hard on bikes during the...
Hardly Able
People who ride motorcycles still care about motorcycles - as opposed to all-too-many-drivers, who view cars as appliances. Who have been conditioned to view them as such.
Evidence of this disparity in...