By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It’s not a motorcycle, but to call it a car would be a bit misleading, too. From the just-released picture from Toyota, it looks a bit like an enclosed Can-Am Spyder, although it’s impossible to tell how many wheels are in the rear. The Spyder …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It’s no secret that Billy Joel is a motorcycle enthusiast. He’s an avid rider and collector, who has been known to show up at vintage meets and blend in with the crowd. Last weekend, Joel rode into the Dania Beach Vintage Motorcycle Show in Florida. …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com January’s poll question(s) got a divided response from RIDE-CT.com voters, with only half of those casting ballots liking the idea of Harley-Davidson building a model smaller than the Sportster. A total of 50 percent approved the idea of Harley building something sporty like an XR750, …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The deal’s done. In what it described as a “strategic realignment” of its business, BMW Motorrad today announced the sale of the Husqvarna motorcycle brand to Pierer Industrie AG, a company owned by KTM chief executive officer Stefan Pierer. The price of the purchase was …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com It’s an alphabet soup of bike builders. The British website MCN is quoting “high-placed motorcycle industry sources” as saying that BMW is negotiating the sale of Husqvarna to Austrian bike-maker KTM. The German giant BMW bought Husky from MV Agusta in 2008 and has put …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Motorcycles don’t come to mind when I think of France. Wine comes first, then Paris, followed by memories of exploring the French countryside on separate trips with my dearly departed parents back in the 1980s. There was the girl behind the desk at a hotel …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Here’s a definite “find” on eBay. Up for grabs today is a 1976 Suzuki RE5 rotary motorcycle. What makes it special is that it has 0 miles on the odometer. It’s brand new. Never been ridden. With less than 14 hours remaining (as this is …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The cost of riding in Connecticut – whether on a street motorcycle, an off-road bike, a quad or even a snowmobile – will increase if several bills proposed by legislators in the past couple of weeks or so get passed into law by the General …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com No word of whether we’ll be seeing it here, but London-based Gaucho Productions has produced an eight-part documentary on the Honda TT Legends’ 2012 road racing season, which takes in the Isle of Man TT. The first episode premieres Feb. 4 on ITV4 in the …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com A bill in the Maine legislature that would require all riders to wear helmets has been referred to committee. Proposed by Rep. Paulette Beaudoin, a Democrat from Biddeford, the bill was sent Tuesday to the Transportation Committee. A similar bill introduced by Beaudoin in 2009 …