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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 …

NEW YORK – With a price tag of $25,000 and a supercharged 998cc in-line, four-cylinder engine, Kawasaki’s new 2015 Ninja H2 is designed for a select few riders, and is only available for order through Dec. 19. Kawasaki has brought one to the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Javits …

With the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Javits Center in New York only three days away, Indian today announced that it plans to unveil two customized versions of its middle-weight 2015 Scout cruiser at the show.

TORRINGTON, CT – The Connecticut Rider Education Program (CONREP) is vowing to continue fighting ouster from the UConn Torrington campus, despite getting an email Thursday from the branch’s interim director reiterating the university’s earlier decision that withdrew permission to use its parking lot as a motorcycle training range.

Pop quiz: Where was the first Indian “motocycle” built? Bzzz. Time’s up. If you said Springfield, MA, well, hang your head. You’re wrong. Yes, Indian produced motorcycles in Springfield from 1902 through 1953, but the first Indian was created in a city farther south on the Connecticut River – in

With 318 curves in 11 miles that run along the western edge of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, the mountainous section of U.S. 129 in North Carolina and Tennessee known as The Dragon is an exhilarating and dangerous road, and arguably the the most famous riding road in the country. …

It’s that time of year again. Time to hop on the train, head to New York and spend hours gawking at new motorcycle models and commiserating with familiar faces at the annual Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Javits Center. It’s the place to