Up To Speed

STURBRIDGE, MA – It has traditionally been a mid-September event, but this year’s IMOC rally is getting pushed back to the end of the month. Event co-chair Steve Rossi says this year’s 32nd annual meet will staged on Sunday, Sept. 27 at the Hamilton Rod & Gun Club here.

In advance of new 2015 models actually landing in showrooms, Ducati is staging a “preview tour” – hauling examples of the 1299 Panigale, Multistrada 1200 and Scrambler models in a van to a short list of dealers across the country. According to Ducati, two dealers in Massachusetts, one in New …

Harley-Davidson is recalling more than 19,000 of its Dyna and Softail models from the 2012 model year for a bad threads on the brake line banjo bolt in the front brake master cylinder that

QUECHEE, VT – In the 50 states, there are 44 chapters of B.A.C.A., which stands for Bikers Against Child Abuse. Two of the states lacking chapters are in New England – Rhode Island and Vermont, but a drive is underway to establish a B.A.C.A. chapter in Vermont. Shawn “Bulldog” Marchetti …

LITCHFIELD, CT – So much for the book value… The 1965 Honda C110 auctioned off New Year’s Day at the Possum Queen pageant at the Litchfield Inn far surpassed the $1,000 reserve and even topped the NADA estimate in excellent shape of $2,420. Denise Leclair of Goshen, CT had the …

Happy New Year and Thanks! RIDE-CT / RIDE-New England set another readership record 2014 with the number of page views climbing 53.54 percent to

RIVERHEAD, NY – Maximum Motorsports, the Long Island dealer that has sold Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha motorcycles and Vespa scooters, today added the Triumph line.

Only the closely held bottom lines tell the story, but 2014 appears to have been a rebound year for Connecticut dealers, and presumably those in all of New England, from an observer’s standpoint. Unlike recent years when dealerships were disappearing at a regular rate, the year that’s just ending saw …

MIDDLETOWN, CT – It’s the biggest motorcycle event in southern New England, and this year’s Middletown Motorcycle Mania attracted an estimated 6,000 bikes and 13,000 to 15,000 spectators. Next year’s gathering will be the 10th and is set for

If you’re in favor of the California practice of lane-splitting – riding between lanes of slow-moving traffic on freeways – and would like to see it become legal everywhere, there’s a petition on the White House website that you might want to sign. Published Dec. 2, the petition seeks “to

Opening to the public next month in Marysville, OH will be the Honda Heritage Center, a combination museum, technical development center and office complex. It will feature both cars and motorcycles built in the state and North America over the past 55 years. The $35 million, 160,000-square-foot facility was dedicated …

A recent test drive of the Polaris Slingshot by Connecticut’s Department of Motor Vehicles failed to convince the agency to allow the new three-wheeled model to be sold and registered in Connecticut. Polaris brought a Slingshot to DMV headquarters in Wethersfield on Dec. 8 for inspection and a test drive, …

SPRINGFIELD, MA – A date has been announced for the Springfield Museums’ sixth annual Indian Day in 2015. The event, which attracts dozens of vintage Indians and hundreds of Indian enthusiasts, will be held on Sunday, July 26. The date marks a departure from the past when the show was …

NEW YORK – If you can’t make it to the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Javits Center this weekend, not to worry because RIDE-CT / RIDE-New England has made the trek for you and come home with some snapshots from the show floor. While no new models were revealed …

NEW YORK – It’s never a good idea to have a preconceived notion about a motorcycle before riding it, and John Shope freely admits to having had one before he tried out the 2015 Indian Scout. Owner of custom shop Dirty Bird Concepts in Phoenix and one of the stars …