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Since 2010, RIDE-CT & RIDE-NewEngland has been reporting about motorcycling in New England and portions of New York.

A Forum Worth Checking

By Bob Rosen Known to many, the Adventure Rider forums should be known to all.  Perhaps one of the very best all-round resources on the web. The depth and breadth of information on ADVrider is nothing short of astonishing.  Many a cold winter’s day has been whiled away reading the …

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Bike EXIF

By Bob Rosen Bike EXIF – This blog by Chris Hunter features some of the most creative custom bikes you’ll ever come across.  The blog is updated on a regular basis and never fails to provide thought provoking (and even controversial) examples of bike builders’ creativity from around the world. Most often …

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Video Captures Crash

As the BBC reporter notes, the weather was clear and the road surface was dry, yet British rider Jack Sanderson ran off the road on a notorious section of the A457 in the Derbyshire Peak District, crashed and toppled down a 40-foot embankment. A Go-Pro camera attached to helmet shows …

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DeLuco Becomes G.M. At Springfield Motorsports

Ralph DeLuco has a longer commute to work from his Simsbury, CT home. The former owner of Canton Cycles in Winsted has left the job that he held for the past few years – service manager at Gengras Harley-Davidson in East Hartford – to become general manager of Springfield Motorsports across the …

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Can-Am Video With Messier Goes For Laughs

Some visitors at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show in New York back in December got to gawk at NHL legend Mark Messier, who was on the convention floor shooting video touting the Can-Am Spyder. The six-time Stanley Cup champ (five times with the Edmonton Oilers and once with the New …

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Will Captain America Help Harley Sell New Model?

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 …

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A Motorcycle Really Needs To Feel Right…

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 …

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TMZ Clueless When It Comes to Motorcycles

By Bud Wilkinson The gossip website TMZ is receiving guffaws from riders coast-to-coast after cluelessly labeling a motorcycle ridden by a Los Angeles police officer as a “chopper” in a story about a woman who apparently dodged ticket on Friday afternoon. The website reported: The LAPD is conducting a formal Internal Affairs …

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Two Attempts To Repeal Helmet Laws Fail

By Bud Wilkinson Michigan repealed its helmet law in 2012, allowing riders 21 and older to go lid-free, but similar efforts in other states since then have failed. Two attempts this year to wipe helmet laws from the book, including one in New England, failed. In the Vermont legislature, the …

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British Meet in Massachusetts Gets New Home

It’s the longest-running British Motorcycle Meet in the country, and this years’s 36th annual event staged by the BSA Owners Club of New England will move to a new location at the Bolton Fairgrounds on Route 117 in Lancaster, MA. The meet includes a bike show and motorcycle flea market …

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New England Air Museum Plans Motorcycle Show

By Bud Wilkinson The arrival of spring not only means a return to riding, but also motorcycle meets and shows. There are at least three planned over the next few weeks and spread over the region. The most intriguing is… – The New England Air Museum Motorcycle Show, a first-time event …

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Yamaha Takes Sci-Fi Route to Tout Tricity Scooter

Are you a sci-fi buff? Yamaha is taking a futuristic approach in promoting its new three-wheeled Tricity scooter by creating an imaginary place called “Rev STATION” where new models are created.  In a recently-revealed online introduction of Rev STATION, Yamaha tells of a 21st Century where “the Earth was weakening” …

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