The official launch won’t take place until Feb. 2, but Royal Enfield is now teasing its new Himalayan adventure model after months (or is it years?) of speculation over what it might look like. No word yet on when the India-made bike will be available or where. The company’s new …

HARWINTON, CT – As we were getting ready to leave the Springfield Motorcycle Show at the Eastern States Exposition last Saturday, motorcycling friends Brian O’Neill and Roland Smith looked at the crowd of riders in the hall and observed that maybe next year we should rent a booth and hawk …

  As if motorcycle dealers don’t have enough to do already, Indian invited its dealers worldwide back in November to enter a “Project Scout” competition. The rules were simple. Take an Indian Scout or Scout Sixty and customize it. There were no restrictions on theme or budget. They only had …

BETHEL, CT – It’s not uncommon for motorcycle dealers and shops to sprinkle vintage motorcycles around their stores to provide a visual link to the past. For example, Doc’s Motorcycle Parts in Waterbury, CT has an elevated shelf in its building lined with splendid old bikes. North’s Services in Lenox, MA …

It was last Friday that reader Joe Acampora posted a video of a 1912 Wilkinson motorcycle on my Facebook timeline. He presumably figured that I’d like to learn about a vintage machine – built more than 100 years ago by the folks who make razor blades – that bears my …

ROCKVILLE, CT – Ken Kaplan’s hope back in the fall of 2014 was to have his grandiose New England Motorcycle Museum opened by Labor Day 2015. His dream was to restore the derelict Hockanum Mill into a show place for motorcycles that would eclipse the world-renown Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum …

WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA – Part of the fun of attending a motorcycle show is being on the lookout for interesting bikes that may be parked in an out-of-the-way corner or tucked among other bikes in a display. This weekend’s Springfield Motorcycle Show at the Eastern States Exposition had quite a …

WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA – The expression of amazement on the face of four-year-old Cooper Cullen of Enfield, CT as he watched a video of Doug Danger‘s record motorcycle jump over 22 cars at the Sturgis rally back in August confirmed that daredevils never

NORTH HAMPTON, NH – Great Bay Motorcycles has closed after 16 years. A short message on the Home page of the dealership’s website thanks “all of our customers over the years,” while the websites of Ducati, Triumph and Zero, which Great Bay carried, no longer list the store as

WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA – With rain in the forecast for Saturday, a logical place to escape to is the 11th annual Springfield Motorcycle Show at the Eastern States Exposition. Numerous dealers will be showing off new models and vendors will have