By Bud Wilkinson Yes, the masthead has changed. A new picture provides the background and a new name has been added – Ride-NewEngland.com. It joins RIDE-CT.com. Why, you ask? The fast answer is that the website has outgrown Connecticut. The more accurate answer is that over the past two years, …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The original was a cult classic, and now Honda’s bringing back the Valkyrie heavyweight cruiser. The new version has an 1,832cc, liquid-cooled, six-cylinder engine – up from the 1,520cc motor in the original that was built between 1996 and 2003 – and weighs in at …

Riding a motorcycle is becoming more dangerous. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is out with final statistics for 2012, which reveal that 4,957 riders were killed on the nation’s roads – an increase of 7.1 percent over 2011 when 4,630 riders died. Motorcyclists accounted for 14.8 percent of all …