It’s time again for TWIR – The Week in Review, which appears weekly (at least when sufficient items accumulate). This time it’s for the week of Sept. 13 through 19. As just suggested, TWIR is a compilation of regional, national and sometimes international news that didn’t get a full post …

WATERBURY, VT – It sits upon a hillock in this small town of 5,000 residents; a cemetery devoted to the dearly departed. Several dozen granite headstones display fun epitaphs. They don’t memorialize people, rather each recalls a well-loved but retired flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.  There’s Boston Cream Pie …

We live in polarized times, so it should come as no surprise that riding habits have been impacted – to opposite extremes – by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of the latest reader poll by RIDE-CT & RIDE-New England. A total of 39 percent of those voting in …

NEW YORK – Another motorcycle magazine has bitten the dust, at least in printed form. Bonnier Corp. will put out its final issue of “Cycle World” in October, with ownership of the magazine and several others transferring to a company called Octane. Octane plans to continue “Cycle World” as an …

POCASSET, MA – Cape Cod Harley-Davidson got a new owner today. A three-man partnership acquired the store from sisters Cate and Molly MacGregor and immediately vowed to pump some new ideas into the operation. “I think they wanted someone to take over and excel with it,” said incoming co-owner and …

MINNEAPOLIS – Indian Motorcycle released its 2021 model-year lineup today and it includes two new iterations of existing models: the Vintage Dark Horse and the Roadmaster Limited. The Vintage Dark Horse is a blacked-out model with soft black saddlebags. Its starting MSRP is $19,499, which is $1,000 less than the …

ROCKINGHAM, VT – Since relocating to Vermont I have been in awe. Some of the best riding I’ve ever done now begins at the bottom of my driveway.  With every ride  a new road takes me somewhere beautiful, which leads to someplace incredible. The riding here is nothing short of …

BOSCAWEN, NH – The bodies of what are believed to be a New Hampshire grandfather and his grandson have been found at a crash site in woods near the Salisbury, NH town line. Jerry Proper, 69, and Cody Pillsbury, 22, went for a motorcycle ride on a Honda Gold Wing …

NEWPORT, NH – A New Hampshire man and his grandson haven’t been seen since Labor Day after going on a motorcycle ride, and police here are seeking the public’s help in finding the missing riders. Jerry Proper, 69, and his grandson, 22-year-old Cody Pillsbury, left the Newport area shortly after …

STURGIS, SD – The city of Sturgis is condemning as “blatantly faulty” a study released this week that tied that the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally last month to 267,000 cases of COVID-19 across the United State and concluded that the event caused nearly 20 percent of all cases nationally …