It’s been 50 years since Burt Munro took his Indian Scout Streamliner to the Bonneville Salt Flats and made history – a story immortalized by the feature film, The World’s Fastest Indian, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. As a result, Munro’s legacy transcends motorcycles and symbolizes the much broader drive to push beyond conventional limitations […]
Originality is what makes us who we are. The feeling of being lost within my imagination, leaving my perfectionist side on the bench is what pushed me to building the Flying Tit. With it being the first bike I’ve built, it started out as a basic bobber project. I took a sharp turn one day
Most people have been there: a few drinks at a restaurant or bar and then into the car to get home. Am I over the legal limit? Hard to say. Is my driving impaired? It doesn’t seem to be. But what if I get stopped? Will I lose my license, go to jail,
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My name is Peter Ström and I am 54 years old from Stockholm, Sweden. I have a few bike-builds behind me – I built my wife’s FXR trike, Sportster chopper for myself, Sportster bobber with a lot of engraving on it for my daughter. Every one of them has been well-appreciated and written about in
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A Southern California show, Born Free, is just six weeks away and there is a very special aspect to this show, the FXR competition. Eric Bennett is busting his ass to build the ultimate FXR for this show and the Hamster FXR Show in Sturgis this year. Bennett’s Performance will post no less than seven
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America’s biggest and most successful export is “American Culture”. Everyone everywhere wants a piece of Americana. No matter which industry you look at, the biggest brand in any product or service is always an American Brand Company. http://www.umglobal.com No wonder then that riders in India welcomed UM Motorcycles of USA with great thrill and affection.
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It’s officially Willow Springs International Motorsports Park, but most people just call it Willow which happens to be the name of the area located about 85 north of L.A. not far from Edwards AFB, home to stealthy aircraft. Things get flying over the course of the year with a variety of auto, go-kart and
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FastDates.com Calendar publisher and photographer Jim Gianatsis is excited to announce that one of our favorite Calendar Kittens, spokes model Jessica Harbour from Huntington Beach, CA, has been selected to return with FastDates.com to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA, for the 2017 SBK World USA & MotoAmerica National Superbike Race Weekend July 7-9th
We live is strange times. Social media surrounds us with constants info, but it’s often bullshit. It’s teasers, spin and untruths. More and more I want to know more, but even in an era of constant info you can’t find the real story. The first time I saw a Flo astride a chrome thrown I
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THOUSANDS of motorcycle fans turned out to watch vintage bike racing return to the beach for the first time in more than 60 years in South Australia. The Sellicks Beach event, organised by the Levis Motorcycle Club, attracted 4000 spectators and 105 racing bikes over two days on the weekend. “Everybody had a ball
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One of the nation’s fastest growing Concours and the world’s largest for a single charity, featured an amazing weekend of philanthropy, comedy and of course, a spectacular automobile and motorcycle display BOCA RATON, FL (April 26, 2017) – The annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance presented by Mercedes-Benz and AutoNation has raised nearly $10 million to date for
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Revival Cycles throws one of the best indoor motorcycle shows around. The show is in Austin, TX, and is focused on the ingenuity and fabrication put into the machines more than just the brand of motorcycle. At Hand Built, bikes of every ilk show up ready to impress the onlookers. Paulie of J&P Cycles
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THE AIM/NCOM MOTORCYCLE E-NEWS SERVICE is brought to you by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (A.I.M.) and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM), and is sponsored by the Law Offices of Richard M. Lester. If you’ve been involved in any kind of accident, call us at 1-(800) ON-A-BIKE or visit www.ON-A-BIKE.com. NCOM BIKER NEWSBYTES Compiled & Edited by
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A humble Harley Davidson dealership owner named Dennis Packee is going viral for a letter he wrote to a soldier’s wife. The soldier, named Christopher Walters, left his motorcycle in some rented space at Reiman’s Harley-Davidson before being deployed overseas. Christopher’s wife, Jaime, was supposed to stay on top of payments for the storage
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If you have not been to the National Motorcycle Museum out in Anamosa, Iowa, here’s a special reason to visit; the Museum is opening two new motorcycle exhibits and presenting Vintage Rally 2017. On this one day, June 10th, they also take the show outside and go live with a vintage bike show and
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ABATE of Wisconsin has been fighting for motorcyclist’s rights since 1974. Known for repealing the mandatory helmet law for adults in 1978, ABATE has continued to represent the rights and safety of the state’s motorcyclists in a variety of ways. Legalizing angle parking for cycles and allowing three motorcycles to share a single meter
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We are rolling into a series of articles regarding oil and lubricants using the Spectro experts as our library of data. I’m beginning to find out a great deal about the quality of lubricants, during just a couple of conversations. A lot of what you see on the market is smoke and mirrors. In
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During the 2013 Sturgis Rally, the entire biker world bore witness to the return of Indian Motorcycle as a bona fide American motorcycle manufacturer. This was a huge deal as the Polaris-owned company hit both the highway and the competition pretty hard with no less than three models: the Chief Classic, the Chief Vintage,
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Less is more because less is faster. That was the simple philosophy of the original café racers – bikers in 1960’s England who stripped motorcycles down to the bare essentials and put their machines to the test street-racing from coffee shop to coffee shop. The bikes became known as “café racers” and the stripped-down
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Oncethat trailer gate hit the driveway back at home I could see tired ol’Betsy begging for another chance at life! As I walked aroundthe trailer she lay resting after the 1500 mile journey back. Iassessed the impending task of making this Ol’ girl right again. “Rode hard and put up wet,”
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Years ago… Early summer wasupon us and perfect weather oversaw this journey as the two heavilyloaded motorcycles picked their way slowly through the strikinglygreen forests of one small Virginia highway. Behind my aging ElectraGlide Michelle followed on her old Honda Shadow. Five yearsearlier, having never ridden a motorcycle before, Michelle had paid$700 for that
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Shops around the country were super-hard hit when the economy crashed. A bunch dropped out of business, but immediately they started coming back, if only out of garages. Harley-Davidson didn’t help much. They sent a memo to all their dealers cutting the number of aftermarket parts they could carry and forcing dealers not to sell
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THE AIM/NCOM MOTORCYCLE E-NEWS SERVICE is brought to you by Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (A.I.M.) and the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM), and is sponsored by the Law Offices of Richard M. Lester. If you’ve been involved in any kind of accident, call us at 1-(800) ON-A-BIKE or visit www.ON-A-BIKE.com.  NCOM BIKER NEWSBYTES Compiled & Edited
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