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By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Doc’s Motorcycle Parts in Waterbury held its 43rd annual Customer Appreciation Day & Bike Show on Sunday, and the sunny skies brought out a good crowd. It’s always a treat to see one-off choppers and paint schemes. Is green the theme this year? It appears …
Read More »Connecticut Contingent Departs on Cannonball
Buzz Kanter, left, with Jeff Alperin and Dan Emerson By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Newburgh, N.Y. – There were cheers and shouts of encouragement from the sizable crowd of spectators outside of the Motorcyclepedia museum this morning as more than 70 motorcyclists set off on the Motorcycle Cannonball Endurance Run. …
Read More »New Husky Street Models To Arrive Soon
Husqvarna is targeting a late September release in dealerships – finally – of two new dual purpose bikes. The street-oriented TR650 Strada will have an MSRP of $7,499, while the more dirt-friendly TR650 Terra will go for $6,999. Both are powered by a 652cc, single-cylinder engine. Both boast 58 horsepower …
Read More »Indian 101 Scout Prepared for Motorcycle Cannonball
Pictured from left, Tim Raindle, George Yarocki and Jeff Alperin By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com With only days remaining until the start of the Motorcycle Cannonball endurance run, vintage Indian expert George Yarocki was in his Torrington workshop last week attacking a checklist of tasks that needed to be completed …
Read More »Road Trip: MV Agusta, Triumph Bobber
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com A holiday weekend trip to D.C. for a wedding enabled RIDE-CT.com to check out the motorcycles and cars this morning at a well-attended event known as Katie’s Cars & Coffee in the Village Center in Great Falls, VA. Every Saturday morning, hundreds of car and …
Read More »Oil Drippings: News and Opinion
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Only 10 days until the Motorcycle Cannonball II endurance run starts in Newburgh, N.Y. and participants are fine-tuning their rides. Jeff Alperin, who resides in Florida after living most of his life in Connecticut, is spending the days leading up to the run getting his …
Read More »Winsted Couple Complete Hoka Hey Challenge
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Matt Klebe and Kelley Babbin of Winsted were pooped but pleased after having successfully competed in the 3rd annual Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge earlier this month. It’s an endurance event that this year had riders going from Las Vegas to Gowanda, N.Y., mostly on secondary …
Read More »Official Torrington Thunder Flash Mob Video
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The official video of the Aug. 9 flash mob in downtown Torrington to promote Torrington Thunder is now out. Here it is, courtesy of Whitney Productions:
Read More »Paley Takes Griffon for Another Ride
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com About a month ago, Will Paley of Cornwall took his 1906 Griffon out of mothballs and put it back on the road. This afternoon, he took it for a spin on Route 43 near his Cornwall home and he invited RIDE-CT.com along. The 493cc French-made …
Read More »Harley-Davidson Out With 2013 Models
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Harley-Davidson has released its 2013 model year lineup that includes 10 bikes with 110th Anniversary badging, a restyled Street Bob and two new CVO models – a high-performance Softail called
Read More »Once Again, Brit Jam Attracts A Crowd
As is the case every August, lovers of vintage British bikes turned out for the annual Brit Jam meet, held Sunday in East Haddam at the Haddam Neck Fairgrounds. RIDE-CT.com was unable to attend this year due to a sick pooch, but friend Ken Engelman, associate publisher of “RoadRUNNER” magazine, …
Read More »Yankee Beemers Ride Lime Rock Park
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It’s a rarity to see a motorcycle on the track at Lime Rock Park in Salisbury. In fact, except for a corporate BMW Motorrad outing, bikes have been absent from the track for a half-dozen years. In the 50 years before that, motorcycles only got …
Read More »Lower Connecticut River Valley
By Bud Wilkinson Route 154 is a winding state road that runs along the west side of the Connecticut River from Old Saybrook through Esssex and Deep River and north to Haddam and Higganum. “This is a nice cruising road,” said Janet Gessner, whose husband, Tim, rides a 2000 Harley-Davidson Sportster. …
Read More »Indian Built by Eggers Up for Auction
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com A sparkling green, white and gold 1930 Indian 4 motorcycle, restored and customized by William “Wild Bill” Eggers of Goshen, is expected to fetch between $80,000 and $100,000 at an auction by Bonhams this week in Carmel, Calif. The bike has been in a private …
Read More »Japanese Bikes Along the Road
By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Go to the same places often enough and you’re bound to bump into familiar faces. The past two Sundays, RIDE-CT.com has run into Matt Hazen of Colebrook at the usual haunt, Toymaker’s Cafe in Falls Village. Today, Hazen was riding a silver 1987 Honda Hurricane …
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