By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com A designer for Harley-Davidson reveals to his alma mater how the Sportster Forty-Eight model came to be. Rich Christoph’s interview on the throw-back bike that is posted on the University of Wisconsin-Stout’s web site can be found here. “We convey ideas ffrom thin air through artwork,” …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Longtime Chicago firefighter Jim McMahon was left paralyzed from the chest down and in need of 24-hour care following a 2004 motorcycle crash in Arizona, and he’s now suing Harley-Davidson for allegedly building a faulty, problematic bike that, in the words of attorney Scott Hooper, “weaved …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It looks much older than it actually is. From the vantage point of “a man of a certain age,” a vintage motorcycle is one from the 1930s, 1940s or maybe 1950s – not 1983. Somehow, though, the purple Harley-Davidson FXDG recently restored by Doc’s Motorcycle …