Steve Smith
March 14, 2016 Safe Riding
The most-used motorcycle training curriculum used throughout New England, the Northeast and across the country is the one provided by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF). The MSF’s Basic Rider Course (BRC) has been the entry point to motorcycling for many, many riders. The MSF uses
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March 13, 2016 Up To Speed
SALISBURY, CT – Lime Rock Park racetrack may stage car races and, starting this year, have motorcycle track days, but it has never hosted the presidential limousine, much less allowed it to drift around the 1.5-mile track in
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March 10, 2016 Up To Speed
STAMFORD, CT – Tam Communications, publisher of “American Iron” magazine, is folding sister publication “Motorcycle” (subtitled “Rides & Culture”) after giving it two years on newsstands. The March/April issue of the magazine will be its last, according to
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March 8, 2016 Up To Speed
Baby Boomers can recall the reputation of Japanese products in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Simply put, Japan produced junk. At least until the Japanese got into electronics. My first portable “transistor” was made by Hitachi, which my father routinely mispronounced as
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March 8, 2016 Up To Speed
BROOKFIELD, CT – This month marks a milestone for Spectro Oils of America, whose products are manufactured and marketed by Intercontinental Lubricants Corp. at 993 Federal Road. The company celebrates its 50th anniversary, having been founded in 1966 by Robert H. Wehman. Still family-owned, Spectro Oils helped pioneer two-stroke oil …
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March 6, 2016 Up To Speed
Is it time to replace your helmet? Has it been dropped? Is it more than five years old? Or, perhaps, are the generally accepted rules for replacement a bunch of baloney? A new survey out of the U.K. suggests that many riders there are wearing helmets that are too old.
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March 5, 2016 Up To Speed
Contrary to current political thinking, size doesn’t matter. In fact, Kawasaki makes the argument that smaller is better by this week releasing the 2017 Z125 PRO. Kawi calls it a
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March 4, 2016 Up To Speed
Another business is leaving Connecticut… It’s not as ground-shaking, though, as the previous sentence might suggest. There will be no massive layoffs, no shuttering of buildings and no huge loss of tax dollars. It was with little fanfare that the revived British motorcycle company Norton set up
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March 3, 2016 Up To Speed
Indian is out with a new model that recalls the brand’s place of origin – Springfield (as in Massachusetts), where Indians were built from 1903 to 1953. Powered by a Thunder Stroke 111 engine, the Springfield features
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March 2, 2016 Up To Speed
Even with an extra day in the month, February flew by. Maybe it was because it was so warm that we got to ride our motorcycles instead of having to chill inside and suffer from PMS (parked motorcycle syndrome). The start of a new month means a fresh edition of …
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