Up To Speed

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Iron Butt legend John Ryan, whose exploits were celebrated by author and long distance rider Melissa Holbrook Pierson in her book “The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing – Long-Distance Motorcycling’s Endless Road,” died in a motorcycle crash on I-78 in New Jersey on Sunday. …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Russian sidecar rig maker Ural is out with a limited edition model created in collaboration with Pendleton Woolen Mills. The Gaucho Rambler is blue with canvas upholstery for the sidecar and comes with a Pendleton blanket. Only 50 of the model will be made, with …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Motus, the Alabama-based builder of sport bikes, is out with a video that shows its new MTS and MSTR models on the road for the first time. The bikes are powered by a 1,650cc V4 engine. Motus as-yet doesn’t have a dealer in New England. …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Was it really only 18 months ago that friend and riding cohort Brian O’Neil suddenly pulled over on the berm of Route 41 near Sheffield, MA during a trip to the Berkshires and asked that I take a picture of the odometer on his 1972 …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The New York tabloids have been going bonkers over the beat-down of an SUV driver by a swarm of bikers following a fender bender on the West Side Highway on Sunday afternoon. “The New York Post” quoted law enforcement officials in declaring that the “psycho …

00:27 Fender Bender … 5:04 Confrontation … 6:17 Land Rover Smashed By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com In a helmet-cam video recorded by a rider that’s going viral today, a group of bikers in NYC attacked a Land Rover after its driver bumped into one of the riders on the West …

Mustang Factory in Three Rivers, MA By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Mustang Motorcycle Products, maker of the high-end aftermarket Mustang brand motorcycle seats, will this week wrap up consolidation of its operation at its factory in Three Rivers, MA after closing its corporate headquarters in Terryville, CT. The company was …

Dennis Bolduc’s 1946 Indian Chief with sidecar sits in front of a 1941 Indian Four (left rear) and a 1953 Indian Chief (right rear) inside what will eventually be the showroom of Indian Motorcycle of Westfield in Westfield, MA. By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com A sunny, crisp autumn afternoon and …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Anyone with a passing knowledge of the rock band Rush knows that drummer Neil Peart has a love of motorcycles. While touring, he gets to concerts aboard a BMW R 1200 GS, usually taking the back roads to get there while his bandmates fly. (Photo …

In a four-paragraph tease, Erik Buell Racing (EBR) has announced that it will unveil a new sportbike on Oct. 16 at the American International Motorcycle Exposition in Orlando, FL. The street legal, high performance machine will carry the designation 1190RX and will use

A cemetery in Palmetto, FL now has a “Bikers Only” section. Skyway Memorial Gardens is selling plots in that section for between $5,000 and $100,000. The higher price is presumably for

It has been five weeks since Indian took wrappers off its new 2014 Chief models at the Sturgis rally, having earlier said its goal is to have 120-140 dealers across the country by

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com They came by the thousands to the Singletary Rod and Gun Club in Oxford, MA on Sunday to inspect the finest two-wheeled machines ever made in Japan. The show ground, the vendor areas and the parking lots were all  packed for the sixth annual Rice-O-Rama …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The website promises “There’s nothing like Rice-O-Rama” and it’s a promise that’s always kept. The 6th annual all-Japanese Rice-O-Rama meet is set for Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Singletary Rod and Gun Club in Oxford, MA. The event is both a …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel has been dead for nearly six years, but memories of his heroics live on, prompting a comic book publisher in Vancouver, WA to bring out a new series starring Knievel. Bluewater Productions plans both paper and digital versions of the Evel Knievel comic book …