By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Info on the future of the Indian brand has been dribbling out since Polaris bought the company last week. “The Des Moines Register” has a few more details on plans by Polaris to build Indian along Victory models in Iowa. The story can be found here.

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Reader feedback from over the weekend in this post: Bill Kerber emailed with a link to some neat video of a 1913 Indian motorcycle in action: Jerry Miller wanted to know how to log in to post a comment. I explained that a few days ago …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Polaris Industries, maker of Victory motorcycles, purchased Indian this past week. What will the impact be? Will it bring new life to a brand that started in 1901, died in the 1950s and has been revived twice since? Rick Barrett of “The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel” has an overview …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com On this Easter, it’s a song that’s cheery and upbeat – “Little Honda” by The Hondells. It was written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love of The Beach Boys, who also released it as a single. However, The Hondells version had greater chart success in …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Got two surprises when I got up before the roosters this morning. It was snowing in the Litchfield Hills at 5 a.m. and an email had arrived overnight from Bob Rosen of Fairfield, who had a website tip. He provided a link – and I am, …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com How’s that for a predictable headline? Scooter sales always go up when the price of gasoline spikes, and the spring of 2011 is no exception. The Motorcycle Industry Council reported today that scooters sales for the first three months of the year are up 49.6 …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com When it launched the Victory brand, Polaris Industries set out to take on Harley-Davidson with a high-quality line of cruisers. When the Indian brand was revived a few years ago, the goal was to revive a legendary nameplate and make it a high-end product. In a …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The first clue that the Ducati Diavel is an attention-grabber wasn’t when the driver of a Nissan “Z” sports car drove by me on Route 8 between Naugatuck and Waterbury (on April 9) and gave a thumb’s up. And it wasn’t when a guy walking back …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Max BMW in Brookfield has undergone a makeover since Max Stratton bought what was Cliff’s Cycle Revolution. The customer lounge and conference room has been eliminated. That area is now parts storage, while the area that formerly housed the parts bins and shelves is now …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com NEWBURGH, NY – The new motorcycle museum Motorcyclepedia opened this morning and it is quite spectacular – two floors and 85,000 square feet of floor space devoted to hundreds of motorcycles. There are familiar names like Harley-Davidson and forgotten ones like