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Pictures courtesy of Marvel This is the week that Harley-Davidon has been waiting for – the week when Marvel’s much-anticipated “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” opens and shows off its new Street 750 model to moviegoers (and riders) around the planet. The hope is that new and younger riders will be …

A neighbor recently thinned her bookshelves and deposited a plastic bag filled with paperbacks on my doorstep. Included in the discards that she thought I might enjoy was Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”  In reading it, having missed its gentle wisdom when it was …

Honda today used the 30th Osaka Motorcycle Show to unveil an outrageous “exhibition model” that’s destined for production. Dubbed the NM4, the model features “Front Massive Styling” with a “low-setup cockpit position and adjustable backrest.” It’s powered by a 745cc, two-cylinder engine, has a dual clutch transmission and a large …

By Bud Wilkinson Oil drippings… – Burt Ives Honda in Columbia, CT isn’t expected to re-open until late April. That’s well after the original target of February. The dealership, which dates back to the 1930s, was acquired last fall by Ken Ives Jr. who bought it from his father. Remodeling, however, …

By Bud Wilkinson Daytona Bike Week has claimed the life of a rider from Springfield, MA and police suspect that alcohol was involved. New Smyrna Beach police Sgt. Eugene Griffith tells the Daytona Beach “News-Journal” that 46-year-old Mark Twining suffered fatal injuries when he and another rider, 29-year-old Robert Wilson, …

What’s your image of those who attend the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota? If you pegged them as being older, more proper than hard-core bikers, affluent and educated, well, you’d be right. You’d also be on target if you said rally-goers were mostly Harley-Davidson riders. The results of …

Honda is out with some more new models for 2014, including the CBR650F, the Interceptor (pictured above) and an updated version of the CB1100. Here are some details: – CBR650F is a new middleweight sport bike with an inline four engine that, Honda says, “strikes a terrific balance between full-on …

Kawasaki W80 It was at the end of last year that I was griping about the fact that Moto Guzzi doesn’t sell its Bellagio mid-sized cruiser here in the U.S. and that got me thinking about other models that never see our shores. While Honda withheld its CB1100 for a …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Given the popularity of Harley-Davidson’s Sportster variants, you’d think that any company making a similar mid-sized cruiser model would want to sell it in North America. That isn’t the case, though. While Triumph has the America and Speedmaster models and Yamaha has several V-Star 950 …

IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW YORK SHOW  NEW YORK – With the three-day Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York this weekend, RIDE-CT.com’s staff went into the city to check it out. Bob Rosen, Steve Smith and Bud Wilkinson attended the press preview on …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com With Keith Bruno having closed The Shop in Winsted, CT and moved to South Carolina, Redline Powersports is prepping for a move up the street into The Shop’s former quarters. Redline Powersports owner Shannon Fry hopes to occupy the cozier quarters at 920 Main St. by …

Don Devault and his Triumph By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Don Devault got his Triumph back on Wednesday – 46 years after it was stolen. The blue 1953 Triumph Tiger 100 was stolen in Omaha, NE in February 1967 and spotted last month at the Port of Los Angeles by …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The original was a cult classic, and now Honda’s bringing back the Valkyrie heavyweight cruiser. The new version has an 1,832cc, liquid-cooled, six-cylinder engine – up from the 1,520cc motor in the original that was built between 1996 and 2003 – and weighs in at …