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Kaplan Revisits Crowdfunding To Bolster Museum

VERNON, CT – Having spent $6.5 million and obtained more than $4 million in state loans to open the New England Motorcycle Museum in the Rockville section of town in late summer, founder Ken Kaplan is now revisiting crowdfunding to help keep the grandiose project moving forward. On Wednesday, Kaplan …

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A Bloke Goes Back To England And Buys A ZZR

It has been a while. Ten years of living and working in Torrington, CT and,  all of a sudden, I’ve had to spend most of the year in my native England to sort out some stuff. By coincidence, this past summer happened to be the hottest and driest since the …

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Motorcycles Are Ridden, Not Driven, Right?

HARWINTON, CT – Not being precisely on the mark when writing or speaking is easy, and excusable, if you’ve never been introduced to the vernacular… However, knowing the culture of motorcycling a bit, I cringed a lot earlier this week when I came upon a story in the local “Republican-American” …

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