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Patience is a virtue
You could have been mine… I never really told the story of my almost buying a Bonneville, did I? Back in February, I took a test ride on the Triumph Bonneville and was instantly enamoured with the idea of owning one. Triumph’s TriStar financing would have been necessary to make it happen. The sales guy drew…
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What I want: Honda NM4 Vultus
The Honda NM4 Vultus is a uniquely designed motorcycle, combining innovative features, storage, and futuristic aesthetics.
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The great Harley-Honda dilemma
A group of Harley enthusiasts smash up a Honda.No doubt the Honda still ran afterward… “Sounds to me the CBF600 has everything you want in a bike except for the image you seem to be looking for.” That’s a comment from Steve Johnson in response to a previous post about reconsidering my opinion of the…
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Through the fog
The view from my house, before things got bad. Fog is a part of the British experience. It works its way into countless Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle tales, serving as a sort of plot device to allow terrible things to be done unseen. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, pollution-laden…
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Rethinking the Sportster
You know what would be really clever? If Harley-Davidson dealerships could issue false invoices that you could show to your wife. So, you could come home with, say, a $15,000 motorcycle but produce for your life partner a receipt claiming you had paid only $9,000. “Yeah, babe,” you could say. “I talked ’em down.” In…
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Ride by wire
Mission RS – Is this the mainstream future? I tend to get pretty excited by the prospect of electric motorcycles. First of all, there is the fact they sound like a TIE fighter. How could you not want that? Sure, there is something cool about the low-rev grumble of a cruiser, but, dude: a TIE…
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Dear Indian: Please make a smaller bike
The Chieftain’s fairing is inspired by Streamliner trains.It is also quite train-like in size! I got a chance to see the new Indian motorcycles in the flesh today –– both the Chief Classic and the Chieftain. They are incredibly beautiful machines, but great googly-moogly are they massive. It is comically huge. I mean, this thing…
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The motorcycling heart of America
People in cold places love motorcycles. The other day I read an interesting article on Asphalt and Rubber that highlighted where America’s motorcyclists are to be found — both by volume and per capita. By volume, there is nothing surprising: California, Texas and Florida take the top spots. Shocker. California, Texas and Florida are also…