December, 2020

• 5 December

  MOMS Adds Third NH Store, Plans Off-Road Riding Park

  

  GROVETON, NH – The MOMS chain of New England power sports stores has added another dealership, picked up a partner in an ex-New England Patriots player, and announced plans for an expansive off-road recreational park in northern New Hampshire. November was certainly a busy month for MOMS president Joel Wheeler, …

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• 4 December

  New IMS Outdoors Tour Plans Visit To Brooklyn – Really?

  

  SANTA MONICA, CA – In a surprising reveal that instantly seems destined to have motorcyclists in southern New England, the Hudson Valley and even New Jersey declaring “Fuhgeddaboudit,” the organizers of next year’s Progressive IMS Outdoors tour announced this morning that Brooklyn will be one of nine host locations across …

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• 3 December

  Ducati Releases New And Lighter Monster For 2021

  

  BOLOGNA, Italy – It’s a sport model that was introduced in 1993 and has sold more than 350,000 copies. For 2021, Ducati has again updated its Monster, dropping the number that’s attached to its outgoing Monster 821 model. The new Monster is powered by a 937cc Testastretta twin-cylinder engine that …

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• 2 December

  CT Gets Another KTM Outlet, New Dealership In Milford

  

  MILFORD, CT – Austrian motorcycle maker KTM has signed a fourth dealership to carry its bright orange motorcycles in Connecticut. Soon-to-open Colonial Power and Sport, which is being launched by the owner of Colonial Toyota here, is expected to open in late December or early January. “We’re building a heck …

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• 2 December

  NTSB Points To Truck Driver For Deaths In NH Crash

  

  WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled that “a pickup driver under the influence of illicit drugs” likely caused the horrific crash on Route 2 in Randolph, NH in June 2019 that killed seven motorcyclists. The NTSB announced Tuesday that it has determined that then-23-year-old Volodymyr Zhukovskyy “crossed …

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November, 2020

• 30 November

  “If You Had Asked Me, I Would Have Told You…”

  

  Nearly two months have passed since the last installment of “If You Had Asked Me, I Would Have Told You…” The column serves to pass along stories that didn’t receive a full post, update previous stories, leak stuff not publicly announced, and provide some opinion. Here goes: If You Had …

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• 28 November

  Springfield Motorcycle Show Not Happening In January

  

  WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA – A month after saying that the odds were slim for staging a show in January, Springfield Motorcycle Show promoter Doug Sousa has now pulled the plug on what would have been the 16th annual show. “A simple virus that we can’t even see took down the …

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• 27 November

  Harley-Davidson Apparently Planning Custom Sportster

  

  Never a company prone to leaking new model info prior to an actual announcement, Harley-Davidson’s plans have become even more open to speculation since the appointment of Jochen Zeitz as president and CEO back in May (after being given the posts on an “acting” basis in February). Zeitz has slashed …

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• 25 November

  Honda Offers Larger Rebel With Africa Twin Engine

  

  TORRANCE, CA – Honda has announced an all-new brawnier sibling to go with its entry-level Rebel 300 and Rebel 500 cruiser models – the mid-sized 2021 Rebel 1100. The Rebel 1100 is powered by a 1,084cc parallel twin, a repurposed version of the engine found in its Africa Twin adventure …

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• 24 November

  Riders Not Deterred By Cold, New Poll Asks About Motaur

  

  RIDE-CT & RIDE-New England readers are a hardy and determined bunch, not deterred from riding their motorcycles by the cold weather that comes in late autumn and continues through winter, results of the website’s latest poll reveal. The poll, which ran from Oct. 17 through Nov. 24, showed that 40 …

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