Up To Speed

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Ural is back in Connecticut. The Russian brand that used to be sold by Canton Cycles in Winsted before that dealership went out of business a couple of years ago has added Street Stuff Cycle in Norwich as a dealer. Street Stuff Cycle got its …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It was a couple of weeks ago that Phil Pepper of Torrington contacted RIDE-CT seeking advice on what to do about some old bikes in his possession, including a 1977 Honda GL1000 Gold Wing that he’d parked about 10 years ago. The bike had been …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com I cannot tell a lie. A few years ago, I got a speeding ticket. A state trooper caught me doing 80-plus miles per hour on the V-Rod that I then owned on Route 63 north of Goshen. It was a bright, sunny day. Visibility was …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Motorcycles have been a part of movies as long as there have been movies, and the crop of summer movies has loads of them, beginning with “The Avengers.” Not only does Captain America ride a Harley-Davidson in “The Avengers,” there are bikes in the new …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com State troopers in New York have arrested an unlicensed, 25-year-old rider who did between 150 and 170mph on the New York Thruway – and the guy boasted that his Suzuki could easily top 190mph. Nikkolaus V. McCarthy of Charlton, NY was charged with a variety …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Rare bikes are fetching hefty prices. A 1934 Brough Superior SS100 sold at auction in Stafford, England last weekend for £242,300 (or roughly $394,000). The bike features a 75-horsepower JAP twin-cylinder engine. Only eight SS100s were made for the model year, with one of them …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The owner of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle that floated in a container from Japan to Canada following a tsunami more than a year ago has been found, and efforts are underway to restore the bike and reunite it with its owner. “The Vancouver Sun” reports that …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The Harley-Davidson had a Japanese license plate attached to the rear fender, so what was it doing on a beach on Graham Island in British Columbia? Well, the bike was inside a shipping container and the belief is that it is debris that washed across …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Willie G. Davidson, the grandson of company co-founder William A. Davidson, retires today from Harley-Davidson after a half-century of designing motorcycles. Rick Barrett of the “Journal Sentinel” in Milwaukee spoke with the 78-year-old Davidson on Saturday about his career and his accomplishments, among them the …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It was a perfect day for riding and an upbeat destination was The Shop in Winsted – Keith Bruno’s repair and  service center which officially opened at its new location at 920 Main Street after months of haggling with local authorities. Bruno (second from right …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Harley-Davidson had a strong first quarter of 2012. The company released statistics on Wednesday, which showed that profits were up 44 percent. Net income rose to $172 million, or 74 cents per share, up from 119.3 million or 51 cents in 2011. Total revenue was …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com A 75-year-old woman from Ludlow, MA has been charged with vehicular homicide and failure to yield to an approaching vehicle following an accident Saturday afternoon that killed 36-year-old motorcyclist Bradford R. Storozuk of Stafford Springs, CT.  Josephine T. Zucco, who was driving a 2008 Buick …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Eight surgeries and more than $1 million in medical bills later, Stephen A. Petruska of Dudley, MA is now talking about the accident last April 29 that changed his life forever. Petruska, 26, was riding his Harley-Davidson Dyna Super Glide when a 19-year-old girl, who …

Police in Vermilion, OH are auctioning off a 2009 Harley-Davidson Softtail that was seized after its owner was arrested for drunken driving for the third time. State law allows for the confiscation of vehicles if you are arrested three times in six years, and that was the case with

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Her name is Carly Foulkes. She’s the Canadian model-actress who looks stunning in pink sun dresses in numerous commercials for T-Mobile. However, she’s now donning leather for a new commercial which puts her on two wheels. If you haven’t see it yet, check it out. …