Vintage Motorcycle Restorations, Painting and Fabrication

Press Release- Top 1 Oil “Ack Attack” Sets New Absolute Motorcycle Land Speed Record – 360.913 MPH On September 26, 2008, after five days of pushing their streamliner motorcycle to new limits on the salt flats of Bonneville, the Top Read more…

WOW… this is cool. Finally the manufacturers strike back and tell the AMA to take their rules and shove it… Thanks Jerry! This just in from the MIC: Motorcycle Industry Council To Launch The USSB Championship Factory Riders Offered a Read more…

Well sort of… Anyways, this is pretty cool. Makes a lot of what we call stunt riding over here look lame.

From a BMW press release-No pictures yet… Woodcliff Lake, NJ – August 12, 2008…Proving good things do come in small packages, Husqvarna Motorcycles is preparing to introduce its highly anticipated 250cc four-stroke engine in the all-new 2009 TC 250 Motocross Read more…

Check out the video from Jay Leno’s Garage as he gets the royal treatment from Ducati. Thanks Jerry!

From the floor of the dealers meeting in Las Vegas we have these pictures of the new Harley Trike. The first one is obviously a show bike but I think the second one is production. I’d rather have one of Read more…

Pretty bike and the engine has a character all its own. Check it out at the Moto Guzzi website– From their Press Release- This newest addition to the Moto Guzzi line, the Griso 1200 8V has been designed  to flourish Read more…

We have a month for everything, and this month is Women’s Motorcycle Month. To celebrate that, the AMA Museum has put up a display with several women featured. Some of these women are amazing because of the distance traveled. But Read more…

Museums are cool and there are a few really good motorcycle museums- like Barber’s in Birmingham, AL and now the new Harley museum in Milwaukee. It really is amazing how far we have come in 100 years. The museum has Read more…

With the price of gas here in Atlanta at about 4.10/gal, people are trying to figure out ways of getting around that they can afford. Atlanta is a big, very spread out city with a lot of people living in Read more…

Consumer Reports did an survey to see what people are doing or plan to do in light of 4-5.00/gal gasoline and all of the things on the list are predictable except one. Here’s the list- SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS 79 percent of Read more…

Check this out- this guy gutted an old motorcycle and installed some car batteries and an electric motor. Don’t have too many details, but he says it will go 50mph and last about 20 miles between charges. Cost equivalent of Read more…

How bad would gas prices have to get before you would be caught on one of these? Autoblog Green has the details, but the pedal/electric bike made by erocit is capable of 50mph and when you pedal you recharge the Read more…

He has a reputation for being somewhat wild and his new helmet upholds that rep. Very funny! It is actually hard to miss on the track [youtube]Prx8ppLIxQ0[/youtube]

We all know about the really famous celeb riders like Jay Leno but there are many more who don’t have their own TV show that enjoy and support motorcycling. Heck, motorcycling has literally created celebrities in the past few years Read more…

Check out this video of the last lap at the Oulton Park Supersport race in Britain. Yamaha vs Triumph. Great racing and just plain fun to watch. (Thanks Matt)

Today’s press release from BMW announced the availability of their new Boxer twin sport bike in the US. I don’t know about you, but for 25,000.00 there are a lot of options out there. In terms of sportbikes, you could Read more…

If you have ever wanted to see a classic high side crash in slow motion, check out the video of Jorge Lorenzo crashing in the China MotoGP race. That hurts just watching. Thanks Jerry! [youtube]bE5Pt0DpUHc[/youtube]

Sounds crazy, but Gary Eagan is planning on doing it. He got the invite and chose a Ducati 1098S as the means of conveyance. Personally, I think I would have chosen something a little more comfortable (actually, I would have Read more…

[youtube]L3wyvJXrBFM[/youtube] Well, I was driving around Buckhead in Atlanta this afternoon and I saw a red 848 pulling out into traffic. Such a pretty bike… I am really torn between the red and white bikes. Both look awesome.  So here Read more…

These bikes were sick fast for their day and the level of tire/suspension/frame technology that they had or didn’t have. They still have a reputation and a rabid following. So it’s no wonder that Motorcyclist is doing a retro issue Read more…

Yep, 11 days until the AMA doubleheader (April 18-20) at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, AL. It should be another Mat Mladin show… You can get all the detail at their website as well as order tickets. A couple of Read more…

MCN has a nice little video of the Desmosedici riding around the city (not sure which city…) but it is worth watching just to listen to the engine. Lust is a bad thing.

[youtube]K1UlEQtdUGc[/youtube]Check out this video of Colin Edwards picking his bike up from a low side “crash”… except he never really crashed, he just picked the bike back up mid-corner at speed. Crazy. Thanks Jerry for the link!

And they like it… a lot. Well, who wouldn’t. I mean sick horsepower and the resultant speed are really, really addicting. Motive rides and lives to write about it.The flamed out bike they chose is a little gaudy, but hey, Read more…

This is some really cool old footage from the Triumph factory showing how the bikes and engines were produced. When they said “hand-built”, they were not kidding. I noticed that when they were building the engines, there was not a Read more…

Zero Motorcycles has the distinction of being the only electric dirtbike company that makes a viable alternative to the traditional gas powered dirtbikes we all know and love. Because they are electric, they are zero emissions and that makes the Read more…

One of the biggest problems for motorcyclists is that people in cars just don’t see them. Thus they run into them on a regular basis. The reason is simple- they aren’t looking for them and they are distracted by lots Read more…

If you’ve never taken the time to check out Jay Leno’s Garage, you are missing some cool stuff- and not just bikes either. He has some of the best cars in the world as well. Today, we are looking at Read more…

Good post over at Hemmings Auto Blog with some classic Harley ads from the Evel Knievel era. Cool stuff especially if you grew up in that time period. If you like the stunt/show stuff, check out illconduct.com for the Buell Read more…

Check out the video of Jay riding his new Can-Am Spyder for the first time. He got serial # 1 because he is, well, Jay Leno! Very cool and it looks like a lot of fun. More info here at Read more…

As Moto GP gets fired up for the 08 season, the big question is if anyone can run with Stoner on the Ducati and Rossi on the Yamaha. The second big question is if Rossi can run with Stoner. Speed Read more…

Yep, that’s right… Tom Cruise is first in line and will pick up his Desmosedici RR in Beverly Hills this week. I wonder who else is on the list? Jay Leno is a well known bike lover, so I would Read more…

Motorcycle News has a video of the 1098R intro with a walk-around and riding evaluation. What a sweet bike. Unfortunately, even if you have the approx $50,000.00 to buy one, there won’t be enough to go around so this is Read more…

If you haven’t stopped by the Indian website lately, they have some info and pictures of the 2009 Chief. If you like the classic cruiser look, it probably doesn’t get much better than this. Really good looking bike… The website Read more…

SportRider has an article up on their site with a comparison of a bunch of the top Naked bikes on the market today. Six top Naked Bikes were wrung out- Aprilia Tuono R, Ducati Monster S4R, Kawasaki Z1000, KTM Super Read more…

Not exactly a motorcycle, but still classified as one by the government- what is it? Well, a 3 wheeled vehicle. This classification is important since it allows the manufacturers a lot of latitude with all the federal safety and emission Read more…

We hope! MCN got to ride it is Spain and apparently really like it. I wonder why I don’t get invited to go to Spain to ride the latest Ducatis… Motorcycle News Senior road tester Michael Neeves has just finished Read more…

Yep, it really is that big. Some Germans with a sense of humor took a Soviet tank engine and built a bike around it. Just don’t drop it. Autoblog has the story… The engine comes from a Soviet T-55 tank Read more…

Led by Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters, the DOT is proposing a new program to help reduce motorcycle crashes, injuries and fatalities. Peters is a rider herself, and knows what is at stake. So it is encouraging that these new Read more…

Lots of new pictures on the updated site. The old site had been around since 1998 so it was time to do a little renovation.

I saw this over at Autoblog and wanted to pass it along. The original site that posted the CG image is in Italian, so I’ve copied Autoblog’s translation- Just a little while ago we learned that MV Agusta was working Read more…

Sort of… it is a pre-production model so there are some things that aren’t finalized, but basically this is what will be on sale soon. The Spyder is built by the same folks who make Sea-Doo and Ski-Doo, so this Read more…