By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com In a report released today, the Governors Highway Safety Association found that no progress was made nationally in reducing motorcycle fatalities in 2011. Based on preliminary data from 50 states and the District of Columbia, the GHSA projected that riders deaths will total about 4,500, …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com A pulled hamstring sidelined RIDE-CT for a few days, but back in the saddle today for a 96-mile shoreline trek on a new 2012 Triumph Tiger Explorer, loaned by regional Triumph representative Dave Rosen. Thanks, Dave. The 1,215cc, 135 horsepower, shaft-drive adventure model has only …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com E. Bruce Heilman is a World War II veteran, chancellor of the University of Richmond, and an avid motorcycle rider and Harley-Davidson owner. When he was 82, he took a 7,000-mile trip around the U.S. For his 85th birthday last year, he rode to