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Victory’s newest bagger, the 2016 Magnum X-1 that was unveiled Saturday night at Daytona Beach Bike Week, provides a way to be heard (besides loud exhaust pipes) thanks to a 200-watt, 10-speaker sound system that the company declares

The headline on the “Daytona Beach News-Journal’s” website isn’t encouraging. It reads “Riders brave rain and wind as Bike Week begins” but the accompanying story with photo gallery notes that riders are nonetheless flocking to Florida for the 74th annual gathering. Daytona Beach Bike Week kicked off Friday and runs through March …

In a new “integrated marketing campaign” announced Wednesday, Harley-Davidson will attempt to “break the stereotype of who rides Harley-Davidson motorcycles and how they ride them.” The campaign’s dubbed “Roll Your Own.” It features real Harley-Davidson owners and puts emphasis on the company’s Street 750 model. “The new work shows there …

Dates have been announced for seven stops on the 2015-2016 edition of the Progressive International Motorcycle Show tour. The New York dates will once again be in December. The IMS will visit the Javits Center from Dec. 11-13, making it the four years in a row that the show has …

CRARYVILLE, NY – The Weaver family’s rural Bultaco motorcycles business plans its annual open house for customers and  those curious about the Spanish brand on Saturday, March 21. Hours will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the shop at 682 Taghkanic Churchtown Road. There’s a request that no …

Harley-Davidson announced this week that it is going in a different direction in Canada, eliminating the middle man. Since 1973, Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada has been the exclusive distributor of Harley-Davidson products in the country. However, as early as the third quarter of 2015, Harley-Davidson plans to provide its products directly …

SUFFIELD, CT – Motorcycle collector Paul Mancinone admits to having a problem. “I’m a junk collector. I can’t rid of anything. I get attached. It’s as simple as that,” he said. Fortunately, he has the space to indulge his addiction and the wallet to stock his collection with some sparkling …

Is this item really necessary? The Canadian website Town Moto describes its “Shifter Boot Protector” as “a simple solution to an age old problem.” It’s a leather strap with an elasticized band that “stops the toes of your boots from getting scuffed and marked up by your shifter.” For only …

Here goes with more Oil Drippings: News and Opinion as well as links to stories from elsewhere. – What gives with Hamlin Cycles in Bethel, CT? It opened last April and became a Moto Guzzi dealer more than three months ago, but its bare-bones, amateurish website gives the impression of an …

EAST WINDHAM, NY – Closed for more than two years, the hillside lodge and eatery on Route 23 that was previously known as Point Lookout Mountain Inn and Restaurant will soon reopen as Captain’s Inn Point Lookout. RIDE-CT / RIDE-New England stopped there in October 2012 (below picture) to enjoy

It’s hardly t-shirt weather in these parts, but it will be soon and Indian has a clever promotion to help push its products for the coming riding season – a t-shirt exchange. The “Switch Your Gear” trade-in offer runs through March 31. If you bring a new or gently-used t-shirt …

FORT MONTGOMERY, N.Y. – Finding a motorcycle dealer that sells electric bikes in the region isn’t easy. There are fewer than a handful in New England and eastern New York, but now there’s one more. Rockwell Cycles recently added Zero. “We’ve had them for about three weeks,” Rockwell Cycles owner …

NEW YORK – It was summer of 2012 when RIDE-CT / RIDE-New England spotted and snapped a picture of Gary Halby taking photos in Kent, CT. His expensive Canon camera with a 70-300mm telephoto lens suggested a more substantive purpose to his effort than mere snapshots, and it was quickly …

NEWBURGH, N.Y. – Pulling into a parking space outside the employees’ entrance of the Motorcyclepedia museum one recent morning, it was impossible not to notice an old Indian strapped down in the bed of a nearby pickup. The truck had an Ohio license plate, suggesting the bike had traveled

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Indian today introduced a new, less expensive and less flashy member to its Chief line of heavyweight cruisers. Dubbed the Chief Dark Horse, the 2016 model will have a starting MSRP of $16,999, which is $2,400 less than the Chief Classic. Indian says the Chief Dark Horse “is …