The Robison’s Customer Appreciation party brings out the classic bikes in droves… …read more Source:: ROBISON’s ANNUAL CUSTOMER APPRECIATION PARTY/ A Gathering of Classic Harley-Davidson Motorcycles
By Wade Thiel Most Powerful in Its Class Indian Motorcycle has revealed its new PowerPlus V-twin engine. The company claims the engine is the most powerful in its class. This engine is a liquid-cooled V-twin with a displacement of 1,769cc. The engine punches out 121 hp and 131 lb-ft of torque. The company said that …
By John Burns What’s old is new again in the American V-twin wars. The original Indian PowerPlus ran from 1916 to 1924. The new PowerPlus isn’t a bike at all; it’s an engine – an all-new 108-cubic inch (1769 cc) liquid-cooled 60-degree V-twin, and it’ll be powering a new fixed-fairing bagger called Challenger, “the highest-performing …
By Wade Thiel A High-Speed KTM Is Coming to EICMA It’ll come at EICMA in Milan in November. What is it? The 2020 KTM Super Duke R. The company just recently released a new teaser video of the bike. While it’s not totally clear what all will come on the new Super Duke R, one …
By Wade Thiel The Auction Starts on October 23 American Honda and Iconic Motorbikes teamed up to auction off a pair of rare Honda motorcycles. All of the proceeds will go to help children and teens with brain tumors through the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. The motorcycles are a couple of truly exotic machines. They …
By Dennis Chung Earlier this summer, Harley-Davidson announced plans to get into the electric bicycle business, and a new trademark application gives us a potential name for an e-bike: “Rude Boy“. Harley-Davidson filed the application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Oct. 15, for use with “electric bicycles; electric bicycle parts and accessories.” …
By Wade Thiel Get Ready for Some Smaller Triumph Models I won’t say the days of large-displacement motorcycles are over, but I will say that more and more people seem interested in middle-displacement and smaller-displacement two-wheeled machines. Maybe its the fact that more folks are looking for commuter machines, maybe they just want something light …
By Wade Thiel A Minor Glitch Only It turns out that Harley’s charging issue with the LiveWire was a very minor one. According to multiple reports, the issue was limited to one single bike. This means that the issue will not impact any other LiveWire motorcycles. It honestly looks like Harley did some rigorous quality …
By Dirck Edge Marc Marquez (Honda), already crowned 2019 champion at the previous round, won Honda’s home race at the Motegi circuit earlier today. This was the 10th win of 2019 for Marquez, and the 54th MotoGP win of his career – tieing Mick Doohan on premier class victories. Marquez took the lead early from …
By Bruce Allen It is now clear that Honda‘s 2019 MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has his sights set on the single season points record of 383 set by The Rider Formerly Known as Jorge Lorenzo with Yamaha in 2010. Why else bother winning the Motul Grand Prix of Japan when a win would mean so …
By John Burns Ten years ago we had no stinkin’ traction control, nor no lean-sensitive ABS. Nay, we whacked the throttle softly and carried a Big Piston Fork. The AMA Superbike series was still kind of a big deal, especially for Suzuki, whose GSX-R1000 had won the last 10 championships in a row under Ben …