Clearly, the choice you make of what kind of motorcycle to ride is a determining factor as to how safe you are on the road, and it’s probably no surprise that those who choose sport bikes a slightly more prone to hang it out over the edge. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety […]
Custom Motorcycle Insurance Buying motorcycle insurance presents some challenges, and getting it wrong can cost you money and aggravation. Buying insurance for a custom bike? Well, it gets even more obtuse, Amigo. If your ride is highly personalized, we’re going to give you some helpful advice to get you started on the right path to insuring […]
It’s just about time, at least here in the wilds of the Midwest, to put the bike away for the winter, and that means a bottle of Sta-Bil , stocking in a few quarts of cheap whiskey and selecting the right winter build project. If you happen to be a man like me with a […]
And it’s not a Brough Superior… Three years ago, a 1915 Cyclone board track racer sold at auction in the United States for US$551,000. You read that right, and it’s not a Harley, a Crocker, a Vincent, an Indian or a Brough Superior. In fact, the manufacturer was a short-lived firm that managed to crank […]
They crunched the numbers and the answer is, drumroll here please, if you own a Honda motorcycle you’re going to need a couple of hardened steel chains. After analyzing motorcycle theft data from the past few years, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) says they see a 24-percent drop in overall totals across the nation. In […]
As you may rightly guess, the people of the whole wide world are into motorcycles. Most of those motorcycles, some 58%, get stored at night in what passes for garages in the developing countries of Asia — Southern and Eastern Asia, and the Asia Pacific countries. In the US, we clearly tend to favor cages […]
Lee Roy Hartung loved motorcycles, and he had the taste – and the cash – to indulge his passion. To that end, Hartung put together a collection of antique bikes to make the serious collector keel over in paroxysms of quivering joy. Hartung was 86 years old when he died in May, and now, when […]
It is, without question, a very cool look that harkens back to the days of the Ton Up and the real road racers, but are “retro” helmets capable of doing more than simply looking fine? Well, for the most part, the answer would be a qualified “Yes.” Although actual vintage helmets were more than adequate […]
If your pre-1970 BMW motorcycle suddenly takes a crap and you’re desperate to get it back on the road, you don’t go to Germany. You go to Sturgis… No, not that one, the one in Mississippi. The Sturgis thing? It can be a problem for Ultimate BMW Motorcycle restoration specialist Craig Vechorik, but not one […]
This is the pre-war BMW model you generally see in the old WWII newsreels, and it was a seriously advanced piece of iron for it’s time. Both beautiful and featuring and engine as solid as an anvil, this BMW represented the state-of-the-art for its era. Due to the reliability of its design, the US Army […]
