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  • Please let this be true: Production version of Victory’s Project 156 may still happen

    Please let this be true: Production version of Victory’s Project 156 may still happen

    Rumors suggest a road version of Victory’s Project 156 bike may be revealed soon, focusing on high performance and design.

  • Ride Review: 2014 Triumph Tiger 800

      I mentioned recently that my Suzuki V-Strom 1000 has been in the shop as a result of a recall issue. It is still in the shop. Apparently there is a backlog in getting parts out to dealerships and I won’t see my bike again until the end of the month. I would be a…

  • Proclaiming My Wrongness

    A few months ago, I wrote an article in response to the acquisition of EBR by a company known as Liquid Asset Partners, which describes itself on its website as specializing in “turning your underperforming assets into cash.” In that article I stated quite assuredly that Erik Buell’s eponymous sportbike company was finally, truly dead.…

  • Gravity always wins

    Gravity always wins

    The ‘kick test’ is one unique way to evaluate a motorcycle…

  • The Octane PR fumble: What does Victory do now?

    The initial backlash against the Victory Octane was so intense that most of the reviews I’ve read of the bike have felt the need to mention it: Motorcyclist: “Maybe Victory set expectations unreasonably high… enthusiasts like us were hoping for a high-performance machine more in the standard- or naked-bike realm than another midsized cruiser“ Motorcycle.com: “(M)any……

  • Ride review: 2016 Zero DSR

    Here are some words strung together: interior permanent magnet, surface mount permanent magnet, graphene matrix. You’ll hear words like these when someone tells you about a Zero motorcycle. But if you are like me, your eyes will glaze over because those words don’t create pictures in my mind of what part they will or won’t…

  • 2016 Zero DSR – First ride

    2016 Zero DSR – First ride

    Zero’s DSR motorcycle combines fun, technology, and the future of motorcycling

  • An Iron Butt a day: Meet world traveller Urs ‘Grizzly’ Pedraita

    An Iron Butt a day: Meet world traveller Urs ‘Grizzly’ Pedraita

    Grizzly Pedraita plans to break the world record for global travel on a motorcycle, aiming for under 100 days.