QUECHEE, VT – In the 50 states, there are 44 chapters of B.A.C.A., which stands for Bikers Against Child Abuse. Two of the states lacking chapters are in New England – Rhode Island and Vermont, but a drive is underway to establish a B.A.C.A. chapter in Vermont. Shawn “Bulldog” Marchetti …

LITCHFIELD, CT – So much for the book value… The 1965 Honda C110 auctioned off New Year’s Day at the Possum Queen pageant at the Litchfield Inn far surpassed the $1,000 reserve and even topped the NADA estimate in excellent shape of $2,420. Denise Leclair of Goshen, CT had the …

Happy New Year and Thanks! RIDE-CT / RIDE-New England set another readership record 2014 with the number of page views climbing 53.54 percent to

Did you make a resolution (or resolutions) a year ago at this time? If you did, how’d you fare? Exceptional or exceptionally poor? In a column last Dec. 30, I vowed to literally take more unexpected turns, and followed up by

RIVERHEAD, NY – Maximum Motorsports, the Long Island dealer that has sold Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha motorcycles and Vespa scooters, today added the Triumph line.

Only the closely held bottom lines tell the story, but 2014 appears to have been a rebound year for Connecticut dealers, and presumably those in all of New England, from an observer’s standpoint. Unlike recent years when dealerships were disappearing at a regular rate, the year that’s just ending saw …

Jeff Crampton spent years in his youth working on Hondas. As a certified Honda technician and later as a service manager, he toiled at several dealerships in New England back in the 1970s. His first motorcycle was a Honda – a 1965 Super 90 – and his current bikes are

MIDDLETOWN, CT – It’s the biggest motorcycle event in southern New England, and this year’s Middletown Motorcycle Mania attracted an estimated 6,000 bikes and 13,000 to 15,000 spectators. Next year’s gathering will be the 10th and is set for

If you’re in favor of the California practice of lane-splitting – riding between lanes of slow-moving traffic on freeways – and would like to see it become legal everywhere, there’s a petition on the White House website that you might want to sign. Published Dec. 2, the petition seeks “to

Opening to the public next month in Marysville, OH will be the Honda Heritage Center, a combination museum, technical development center and office complex. It will feature both cars and motorcycles built in the state and North America over the past 55 years. The $35 million, 160,000-square-foot facility was dedicated …