May, 2016

• 26 May

  Demo Trucks Visiting Northeast

  

  Manufacturers continue to have demo trucks out on the highways giving riders the opportunity to try out new 2016 models, including at Americade (June 7-11) and at Laconia Motorcycle Week (June 11-19).

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• 24 May

  Millbrook, NY For Farmers’ Market, Food

  

  MILLBROOK, NY – If Goldilocks owned a motorcycle and had only a few hours to ride through the forest, she might say that the Catskills or Adirondacks are too far and that the usual haunts in Litchfield County are too near, but that the Duchess County village of

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• 23 May

  Split’n Lanes Shows Vintage Racers

  

  BROOKLYN – The 3rd annual Split’n Lanes Dodgin’ Gutters Classic Motorcycle Show held at the Brooklyn Bowl on Sunday was inspired by a unique – and some might say, slightly wacky, event.

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• 20 May

  Halby’s Book Celebrates Bikes

  

  WEST CORNWALL, CT – It took nearly four years from start to finish, but part-time resident Gary Halby’s high-end, high-quality coffee table book celebrating motorcycles, “The Art of the Ride,” is now available

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• 18 May

  Hill Country: Vermont Ride Stirs Memories For Mudgett

  

  CHESTER, VT – It isn’t a ride I could do every day; there are just too many echoes of my past. I have to be in the mood for a ride like this, running parallel histories through my mind as the road unwinds. It causes me to struggle with keeping …

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• 18 May

  State Police Raid Shark Cycle

  

  STAFFORD SPRINGS, CT – Multiple news outlets are reporting that Shark Cycle is being scrutinized by state police as part of a fraud investigation.

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• 16 May

  Thompson Vintage Motorcycle Classic

  

  THOMPSON, CT – What the first-ever Thompson Vintage Motorcycle Classic may have lacked in quantity, it sure made up for in quality. Parked among all the old Indians and Harley-Davidsons were dozens of other rare bikes, including a

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• 11 May

  Vermont Trip Offers Life Lessons

  

  SAXTONS RIVER, VT – Life is filled with little lessons, and a brief two-day, 400-mile motorcycle trip to southern Vermont this week provided a few reminders of forgotten lessons and clues on what to do in the future. In motorcycling, there’s a phrase

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• 11 May

  Indian Unveils Chieftain Dark Horse

  

  MINNEAPOLIS – Indian today unveiled a blacked out, lower-priced version of its Chieftain bagger model. The new 2016 Indian Chieftain Dark Horse has an MSRP of $21,999 and is available

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• 9 May

  BMW Mag Cover Stirs Controversy

  

  Back in college at Ohio Wesleyan University, I had an amiable, wise politics and government professor named Art Peterson. Dr. Arthur L. Peterson held an undergraduate degree from Yale University, a master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota. He lived on …

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