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EBR Plans Less Expensive Model

EAST TROY, WI – American sport bike builder EBR (Erik Buell Racing) is looking to produce a less expensive model. In a press release this morning announcing the release of its 2017 model-year motorcycles, EBR owner Bill Melvin said that “work is proceeding on a sub-$10k platform for 2018.” What …

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Flying Fortress At Molten Java

BETHEL, CT – The monthly (and sometimes twice a month) Spark! motorcycle gathering at Molten Java coffee bar had some extra juice Wednesday evening when Roland DeLongoria, regional sales manager for Piaggio, rode in on a 2017 Moto Guzzi MGX-21 Flying Fortress. DeLongoria has been taking it to dealers this …

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Rare Indian At Doc’s Motorcycle Parts Show

WATERBURY, CT – The rain held off and the vintage and custom bikes rolled into Doc’s Motorcycle Parts today for the store’s 47th annual customer appreciation day and motorcycle show. A sunny sky would have no doubt resulted into a larger turnout, but those who attended were treated not only …

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If You Had Asked Me…

It’s the September installment of “If You Had Asked Me, I Would Have Told You…” Maybe it’s because so many weekends of late had the threat of rain, which severely curtailed my riding, but I’ve got my cranky pants on. Or maybe it’s just because I’m so unenthused by the …

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Woodbury, CT Gets Fowlers USA Apparel Shop

WOODBURY, CT – A new store on Route 6 featuring motorcycle apparel and accessories quietly opened for business on Tuesday. Fowlers USA offers riding jackets and pants, gloves and other gear, and is owned by Sasha Fowler-LeBlanc and her husband, Todd LeBlanc. The retail business may be new, but its …

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Remembering William B. Johnson

SOMERS, NY – The setting is an outlaw motorcycle race in the 1920s, depicted near the end of the Discovery Channel miniseries “Harley and the Davidsons,” and it’s where Harley-Davidson makes history. Not only is the race the first time its legendary “Knucklehead” engine gets tested competitively, but the scene also …

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Furor Erupts At CT United Ride

NEW HAVEN – The CT United Ride, which bills itself as “CT’s largest annual 9/11 tribute,” is being lambasted today by a local motorcycle dealer and by Slingshot owners who charge discrimination in the treatment of a group that wanted to participate in the 15th annual charity ride on Sunday …

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Crossing The Line At Whetstone Station

BRATTLEBORO, VT – It’s not often that you hear the word “whetstone” used in conversation; a whetstone being a sharpening stone for knives. Having grown up on Whetstone Road in Harwinton, CT, though, it’s a word that always perks my ears. Hearing of a craft brewery and restaurant here called …

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Who’s To Blame? Trucker Got Ticket

WINDSOR LOCKS, CT – Riding on a divided highway is supposed to be safer than riding anywhere else. No one can pull out from a side street and an oncoming vehicle can’t drift across the center line. That doesn’t mean accidents can’t happen – as a Connecticut state trooper discovered …

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Harley-Davidson Plans Layoffs

MILWAUKEE – Layoffs are coming to Harley-Davidson with some 200 jobs being cut at U.S. plants. Workers at the factory in Springettsbury Township in Pennsylvania were notified at a meeting Wednesday with the local union reporting that 117 full and part-time positions will be lost. The layoffs will begin in …

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