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 [...]