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Radar of the Future

There was once a time when motorcycles were more advanced than automobiles. Double overhead cams were more common on bikes long before cars. Ditto four-valve heads. Hell, even though bikes turned out...

Finding Warm Comfort

I appear to be aging in reverse. No, I am not undergoing some kind of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button reverse aging process, although I did take up the world’s most demanding – or at least...

Not my Dad. My Mom

It was my mom who got me into motorcycling. Yeah, that surprised me too. I had been pleading for a minibike for some two years — an eternity to a 13-year-old with ADD — with all the resolve, like...

It Takes a Village

It may take a village to raise a child, but if the past 18 months of scrounging for parts is any indication, it takes an entire planet to rebuild a 1982 Honda CB1100R. Now, I know what you’re...

What We Want?

Every year, the motorcycling world gathers at the Esposizione Internazionale Ciclo Motociclo e Accessori – better know to us bikers as EICMA. The EICMA is the most important motorcycle show in the...

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Here’s a tip for all you DIYers looking to beef up your suspension with a new Fancy Dan multi-adjustable rear shock: all the damping adjustments in the world won’t matter a whit if your spring...