Ranking dirt is harder than ranking pavement. A great paved road is a great paved road for everyone, but off-road...
Powersports enthusiasts know that the exhilarating world of motorcycle racing is where fearless riders and cutting-edge machines come together as...
By the end of 1976 you could have thrown a wrench across a Grand Prix paddock and hit an RG500. Suzuki’s two-stroke square four had gone from works prototype to the default premier-class machine in barely two seasons, filling 11 of the top 12 places in the World Championship, and...
I’ve literally been around the world with Barry Green on a mixture of two and four wheels. Barry is the...
So you purchased a new bike or you’re an experienced rider that’s looking to make some changes to your ride....
I still remember when the original “John Wick” (2014) hit the screen. It was almost Halloween, Ninja Turtles had won first place as everybody’s top costume, and there I was avoiding the festivities because I couldn’t stop memorizing “Fortis Fortuna Aduivat” and drooling over a handful of insane action scenes...
Introduction: A Glimpse Into the Solar Revolution Solar-powered motorcycles once represented an ambitious step in the journey toward sustainable transportation....
Progress is a funny thing. Sometimes the best ideas fall in a heap and the things you were so sure...
The 1970s were dark, dark days for Harley-Davidson. After 60 proud years of making great motorcycles and pretty much inventing what a modern motorcycle was, someone decided that it’d be a good idea to take all that heritage, learning, culture and hardware and hand it over to a bunch of...
In 1936, Harley-Davidson bet its future on an engine nobody had asked for. The country was still climbing out of...
In December 1956, Soichiro Honda and his sales chief Takeo Fujisawa flew to Europe looking for their next big idea....
Between 1958 and 1974, one small factory in the Italian town of Cascina Costa won the premier class of motorcycle Grand Prix racing seventeen years running. No other manufacturer has come close to that streak before or since. Mike Hailwood’s four consecutive 500cc World Championships sat right in the middle...
Motorcycles are iconic and versatile vehicles loved worldwide. However, in the Western world, they enjoy popularity mainly as vehicles for...
Motorcycle-style jackets are a staple of men’s fashion, merging rugged functionality with sleek aesthetics. These jackets have become part of...
Motorcycles, since the very first bicycle had a motor strapped to it and driving the rear wheel, have always been about rebellion. Two wheels down instead of four, having acceleration and braking that far outclasses most cars even on the slowest bikes, and, in places where it is legal at...
**This article was written in collaboration with Road Guardians, an organization dedicated to teaching motorcyclist first aid and accident scene...
There is a factory in Chennai, India, that turns out close to a million motorcycles a year. The bikes rolling...
Good ol’ Eddie ‘Dave’ Davenport from the Tulare Raiders on the borrowed Harley with all those smashed beer bottles. It’s the image from photographer Barney Peterson that launched a thousand motorcycle clubs, and upset an infinite nest of America’s letter writing moral guardians. It also spawned a multitude more twenty...
Nobody agrees on the best motorcycle road in America, which is half the fun of arguing about it. The country...
Over the years, American motorcycle manufacturers have produced some of the most exciting and iconic models in the industry. Few...
By the early 1990s, Ducati had already proven it could win. Raymond Roche took the World Superbike title in 1990, and Doug Polen backed it up in 1991 and 1992, both riding the factory’s V-twins. Then Scott Russell took a Kawasaki past them in 1993, leaving a small and financially...
It’s 2011 and I’m on track at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway on my new Suzuki GSX-R. Not a spring chicken...
In the spring of 1969, big motorcycles still ran on drum brakes, kickstarters and a fair amount of faith. British...
This article is not a review of motorcycle gear. It contains only two motorcycle pictures. It’s not about what some may consider a motorcycle story, yet for me, it has EVERYTHING to do with how motorcycles bind us. It embodies the quote I’ve followed for most of my adult life,...
The Suzuki GSX-R750 made an immediate impact when it reached dealerships for the 1985 model year. Before it arrived, building...
The Scottish have found it hard to trump their invention of Whisky. Like Fender with their Stratocaster or Apple with...
There are motorcycles you remember because they were beautiful. Others stick with you because they were fast, or because they scared the hell out of you, or because somebody you knew had one and spent an unreasonable amount of time explaining why his was better than everybody else’s. The Yamaha...
It was touch and go there for a while, but it seems like we’re out the other side and able...
While it sometimes has its ups and downs, the American motorcycle market shines like a golden beacon to the world’s...
Twisted Road, a ride-sharing community responsible for thousands of motorcycle rentals all over the country has just released a new program dubbed “One, Two, Free”. The program gives those who wish to rent motorcycles even more opportunities to hit the open road by giving them free rental days in the...
Two weeks ago I spent 2 wonderful hours as a guest on The Phil Experience Video Podcast with Phil Spence...
It’s so unfortunate that I’ve developed an attitude that people or corporations will do as little as possible to satisfy...
When I tell my Sydney mates that travelling around Europe shooting custom motorcycles for a major bike manufacturer is hot, hard and tiring work they often point out that it sounds a lot like looking a gift horse/motorcycle in the mouth/air filter. “You poor thing! Did you burn your mouth...