
Billy Joel is telling Tom Cotter a story about his buddy, fellow hall-of-fame rock-'n'-roller Bruce Springsteen. "Bruce is always looking for a character bike. He has one of the new Triumph Bonnevilles, which is a great bike. I told him about our shop, so he came down in the middle of winter....
Click the images below for bigger versions: MGS Custom Bikes True Dual Exhaust MGS Custom Bikes has announced the addition of its new high performance line of True Dual exhausts for 1995-2013 Harley-Davidson baggers and dressers. Some years back MGS purchased a Dyno and through the process of...
Suzuki Katana. Honda Dominator. Kawasaki Ninja. These are all bike names that inspire visions of power and awesomeness. In some bizarre, magical way they appeal to men before they've even laid eyes on them. It's motorcycle marketing at it's finest. Then there's the Yamaha Virago, the Honda Gold...
1. The first WorldSBK race weekend here was held in 1995: the winners were Anthony Gobert on a Kawasaki ZXR 750 and Troy Corser on a Ducati 916 R. 2. After a triple win by Rea at Donington Park, Great Britain has racked-up 248 WorldSBK wins and is in the position to be the first country with 250...
LOS ANGELES, December, 1997 —You've got to start somewhere. And just as new pilots aren't strapping themselves into multi-engine jets, beginning riders are ill-advised to start their career with their legs wrapped around a GSX-R750 or a Gold Wing. New riders need to get a feel for it all: The...
In this week's Church feature, we look at the Yamaha BT1100 Bulldog. Not familiar to some of our American readers? That's because it never came to this side of the Atlantic, possibly a contestant for a future list about bikes we never got in this country. Sharing the same V-Twin engine from the...
Those who race motorcycles, like players in any high-risk sport, comprise a mixed group of individuals. The field may contain farm boys, scholars, artists, rodeo riders, engineers, mechanics, musicians and madmen of all sorts. In common, they may have only the abiding passion to go fast on two...