Motorcycle designer Erik Buell loves to do things differently, and he has yet to build a motorcycle that doesn’t have a unique styling signature you can spot a mile away.
With the price of gas ap proaching Evian territory and polar bears watching their yards melt away, it’s nice to finally have a “selfless,� even “noble,� reason to visit a motorcycle dealership.
BMW launches a hot pair of asphalt-carving twins. By Bill Heald
Few manufacturers have worked as hard as BMW when it comes to producing new machinery. This latest effort adds a whole new class of bikes to its line, courtesy of a brace of sporting 800s. The F 800 S and its touring partner, the F [...]
The always cuttingedge Honda is going retro. The Shadow Spirit 750 is a stylish V-twin cruiser with a refined, liquid-cooled mill. But instead of state-of-the-art fuel injection, it has a carburetor! While everybody’s doing full disc brakes, the Spirit’s rear brake is a polished drum that looks pirated from a 1970s beater. Instrumentation consists of [...]
Triumph’s Saturn V blasted onto the scene about two years ago, and this incredibly powerful British steed has now (finally) been graced with a tour package for road trips—namely, capacious saddlebags and a welldesigned windshield that make rocketing from coast to coast a truly comfortable journey. But while comfort is good, thrust is better, and [...]
For those who believe here’s no such thing as too much muscle, the Boss Hoss Super port grafts a 355-horsepower V-8 onto motorcycle chassis and adds appropriate accessories like a heat and fuel tank (with a shape like Pam Anderson’s profile) to create a two-wheeled monster truck. The engine is mated to a two speed [...]
Kawasaki’s 6R has always done well, but this year it decided to stomp the competition by redesigning the bike and hiring former GP rider Tomomi Manako as chief development rider. The new Ninja is more flickable through tight turns and has an amazing inline four that redlines at 16,500 rpm (and has more midrange torque [...]
