By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It was a couple of weeks ago that Phil Pepper of Torrington contacted RIDE-CT seeking advice on what to do about some old bikes in his possession, including a 1977 Honda GL1000 Gold Wing that he’d parked about 10 years ago. The bike had been …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com I cannot tell a lie. A few years ago, I got a speeding ticket. A state trooper caught me doing 80-plus miles per hour on the V-Rod that I then owned on Route 63 north of Goshen. It was a bright, sunny day. Visibility was …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Motorcycles have been a part of movies as long as there have been movies, and the crop of summer movies has loads of them, beginning with “The Avengers.” Not only does Captain America ride a Harley-Davidson in “The Avengers,” there are bikes in the new …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com State troopers in New York have arrested an unlicensed, 25-year-old rider who did between 150 and 170mph on the New York Thruway – and the guy boasted that his Suzuki could easily top 190mph. Nikkolaus V. McCarthy of Charlton, NY was charged with a variety …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Rare bikes are fetching hefty prices. A 1934 Brough Superior SS100 sold at auction in Stafford, England last weekend for £242,300 (or roughly $394,000). The bike features a 75-horsepower JAP twin-cylinder engine. Only eight SS100s were made for the model year, with one of them …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The owner of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle that floated in a container from Japan to Canada following a tsunami more than a year ago has been found, and efforts are underway to restore the bike and reunite it with its owner. “The Vancouver Sun” reports that …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The Harley-Davidson had a Japanese license plate attached to the rear fender, so what was it doing on a beach on Graham Island in British Columbia? Well, the bike was inside a shipping container and the belief is that it is debris that washed across …