While Billy Joel’s third marriage is being dissolved, his love for his music, his custom-made boats, and his retro motorcycle collection remains intact. In the old whaling village of Sag Harbor on Long Island’s East End, where Joel owns a home, the Grammy-winning musician has put his collection of custom-made motorcycles on exhibit. Through July 19, 2009, Lighthouse Harley Davidson of Huntington Station, New York, and Billy Joel are exhibiting 22 of his highly-customized cycles at Christy’s Art Center in Sag Harbor. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Call 631-725-7000 or visit www.20thcc.com for more information…Â Details
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Motorcycle Street – Off the back and in control: Growing number of females are riding motorcycles
It’s Bike Night at the Unexplainable motorcycle club’s hang out in Nashville and the parking lot is popping with bikers and their motorcycles. Sitting coolly atop their Suzuki Hayabusa, GSXR 750 and Katana 600 are not who you might think.
Nope, if you guessed three tough guys sporting too tight wife beaters showing off chiseled biceps, as they nonchalantly lean back on their rides. Instead, it’s three females looking quite comfortable, confident and as they put it “sexy†holding down the big dogs.
Meet Amy Burns(Baby Girl), Sonya Wyke (Ms. Sweetness) and Kathy Miller (Special K). These ladies aren’t satisfied with … Details
Triumph’s all-new Thunderbird cruiser has been awarded the title of ‘Cruiser of the Year’ by an influential American motorcycle magazine.
Cycle World, the world’s biggest selling monthly motorcycle publication, declared the 1600cc parallel twin as best in class in its annual awards issue.
Thunderbird, the British company’s first offering in the mainstream cruiser market, has been enthusiastically received since its introduction to the media at last month’s world press launch in Barcelona. It was universally praised for its combination of outstanding dynamics and classic cruiser style… Details
The Honda V4 has been spied in action just a day after the first pictures of the finished motorcycle appeared in MCN.
The pictures show a Japanese test rider completing final hot-weather testing in the USA, and except for a couple of detail changes, the 2010 motorcycle is …Â Details & Pictures
Bright and early this morning, the UK publication MCN (Motorcycle News) printed unofficial “official†photos of Honda’s upcoming V4 (VFR1200) 1200cc sports-tourer motorcycle in its print issue – leaving web readers in Great Britain scrambling to find a copy. Not having access to the article, we’re speculating that studio images of one proposed version were leaked – one way or another.
But as fate will have it, we caught the real thing today. And we caught it in action. At speed. And … Details & Pictures