Up To Speed

Website Makeover for British Iron Association

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The Connecticut motorcycle club that’s devoted to all rides British – hence the name British Iron Association – has unveiled a new website. Club chairman Shaun Kelly reports that it’s still a work in progress. Some pages are activated and some aren’t. “(The) paint is …

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Polaris Targets H-D With Addition of Indian

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Polaris is looking to expand its market share and take a bite out of Harley-Davidson’s when it begins full-scale production of Indian motorcycles in 2013, in addition to its Victory line. The company views Indian as being a heritage marque with classic styling that has a …

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Oldest Harley Dealership Marks 100 Years

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Where’s the oldest Harley-Davidson dealership? You might think it’s in Milwaukee where Harley makes its headquarters, but writing in “The Columbus Dispatch” columnist Joe Blundo singles out the A.D. Farrow dealership in the Ohio capitol, and he recalls that it owes its longevity to a …

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Rice-O-Rama Getting New Home

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Rice-O-Rama has become a victim of its success. Consequently, the annual all-Japanese meet will leave cramped quarters at the North Brookfield Sportsmen’s Club in North Brookfield, Mass. and move to a new location in September – the Singletary Rod and Gun in Oxford, MA. This …

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“Hooligans” Invade Barber Motorsports Park

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Triumph and Barber Motorsports Park have teamed up  for both AMA races and the track’s vintage festival. A new video not only turns Nick Apex and Ernie Vigil into grunting granddads, but has them stunting through the priceless motorcycle collection at Barber’s museum with Jason …

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Harley Museum to Dress in Black – Leather

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Some things never go out of style, and that certainly includes the black leather jackets that so many riders wear both for protection and as a fashion statement. The Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee will celebrate this zippered piece of motorcycle culture with an exhibit from …

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Got $1.32 billion? Ducati Up for Sale

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Investindustrial, the Italian private-equity owner of Ducati, is looking to sell the motorcycle brand for as much as one billion euros, or $1.32 billion. The “Financial Times” broke the story today and reported that potential suitors include India-based Mahindra as well as Volkswagen and BMW …

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New Harley Models Have Arrived

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It was only a little more than a week ago that Harley-Davidson unveiled two mid-year 2012 models – the Sportster “Seventy-Two” and the Softail “Slim” – and the good news is that they’re already in stores. RIDE-CT.com visited Harley-Davidson of Danbury on Friday and got …

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Oil Drippings: News and Opinion

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com A Sunday morning ride this past weekend resulted in the arrest of a Florida motorcyclist on a charge of felony child neglect. Jose Nelson Diana of Tampa was spotted going between 20 and 30 miles per hour with his three-year-old son on his lap. Diana was …

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Indian Still Runs After Nearly 100 Years

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The bikes that we ride these days are so refined. We hit the starter button, click the shifter into first gear and go. It wasn’t always this way. Neil Tolhurst tipped us to a video from the Netherlands of a flame-throwing 1915 Indiana board-track racer:

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H-D Unveils Two New Models for 2012

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Harley-Davidson has unveiled two new bikes for 2012. There’s a Sportster called the “Seventy-Two” and a Softail dubbed “Slim.” The Seventy-Two is a throwback bike recalling the early ’70s when choppers were the rage and metal flake paint schemes a necessity. Consequently, the bike has …

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Oil Drippings: News and Opinion

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Two people were hospitalized with unknown injuries in Bridgeport on Tuesday morning following the collision of a motorcycle and a car on Fairfield Avenue. The accident left the motorcycle standing perpendicular against the driver’s side of the car, and the “Connecticut Post” has pictures and …

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Crotona Midnight Run Set for Saturday

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The flier for the 94th annual Crotona Midnight Run proclaims “Girlie Men Need Not Apply,” and for good reason. This dead-of-winter, dead-of-night event is for serious riders as well as for those foolhardy souls with a spirit of adventure. The number of participants each year …

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