Up To Speed

By Bud Wilkinson In an effort to “reposition the brand,” Royal Enfield has dramatically dropped the MSRPs of its line of  mid-sized motorcycles. The most expensive 2014 model is the new 535cc Continental GT cafe racer  (pictured above). It will sell for $5,999, “much lower than industry observers expected,” the …

By Bud Wilkinson Details are sketchy, but a web domain for GG Taurus of New England has been acquired with a static page enabling those who stumble upon it to go to another page (apparently owned by the brand’s U.S. importer) that has a digital clock counting down to “the exclusive …

Victory used the Chicago stop on the Progressive International Motorcycle Show tour to unveil its new 2015 Gunner bobber today. With an MSRP starting at $12,999, the Gunner has a six-speed gearbox and is powered by the brand’s standard 106 cubic inch V-twin motor. With a suede titanium metallic and …

With a crowd of hundreds watching, Pope Francis’ signed Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide sold for $328,169 at auction in Paris on Thursday. The bidding lasted six minutes and onlookers applauded when the gavel came down. A Harley jacket also sold for $78,135 as the part of Bonham’s Les Grandes Marques …

Honda is out with some more new models for 2014, including the CBR650F, the Interceptor (pictured above) and an updated version of the CB1100. Here are some details: – CBR650F is a new middleweight sport bike with an inline four engine that, Honda says, “strikes a terrific balance between full-on …

By Bud Wilkinson A Mechanicsburg, OH man was buried today along with his 1967 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide, and WBNS-TV in Columbus was there as evidenced by the above video and accompanying picture (below). In also reporting on the funeral of 82-year-old Billie L. Standley, the “Dayton Daily News” reported that …

Harley-Davidson sold more than a quarter-million motorcycles in 2013 with sales in the U.S. and worldwide rising 4.4 percent each. The company reported today that it sold 260,839 new bikes last year, up from 249,849 in 2012, and that it expects to ship between 279,000 and 284,000 motorcycles in 2014, …

The reborn Indian brand is turning into a winner for parent company Polaris in a very short time. Having only introduced three Indian models in August – the Chief Classic, the Chief Vintage and the Chieftain – Polaris saw year-to-year motorcycles sales rise 94 percent in the fourth quarter of …

By Bud Wilkinson But, first, let’s go to the video… It wasn’t a bull in a china shop, rather a bull in China that charged a motorcyclist and knocked him to the ground in Suining, in the southwest part of the country. The “Daily Mail” reports that the angry animal …

By Bud Wilkinson Winchester Lake in Winchester, CT was the place to be today for riding on ice. At the invitation of friend David Gelerter, RIDE-CT.com/Ride-NewEngland.com played spectator while a group of guys did some. The temperature was probably in the ’20s but the breeze made it feel colder. Despite …

By Bud Wilkinson Scanning the globe (or, at least, websites around the world) to bring you a constant variety of motorcycle news: We all do it when riding. That is, occasionally lift a leg off of the foot peg and stretch it. For a rider in Queensland, Australia doing just …

It wasn’t on display at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show in New York last month, and hasn’t even been seen publicly in the U.S. since its unveiling in Milan, Italy in November, but today Harley-Davidson finally took the wraps off of its new Street 750 stateside by announcing the model …

By Bud Wilkinson In the world of motorcycles, Ural isn’t huge. The Russian company only built 1,206 bikes in 2013, which is probably one-quarter of what Harley-Davidson produced in a single week.  Of that total, 98 percent were shipped with sidecars, leaving a mere

By Bud Wilkinson Oil drippings: The Greater Hartford Motorcycle Enthusiasts are hosting a showing of the motorcycle documentary “Why We Ride” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at AMC Loews Danbury 16 theaters in Danbury, CT and needs 77 reservations for the screening to come off. A total of 11 tickets …

Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham and Henry Winkler as “Fonzie” Time flies. It was 40 years ago yesterday – Jan. 15, 1974 – that the ABC sitcom “Happy Days” premiered. Among the many cast members were Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham and Henry Winkler as Arthur “Fonzie”/”The Fonz” Fonzarelli, a …