If you were a manufacturer who shell-shocked the industry with an award-winning, genre-bending machine last year, you might be excused for taking the year off, making like a wallflower and watching the new designs from other OEMs hit the street. But that’s not how Victory operates.
Not content to watch from the sidelines, the motorcycle arm of Polaris Industries jumped at the chance to ring in its 10th anniversary celebration with not just several tweaks and updates of existing models, but four all-new examples to boot.
To say that machines issuing forth from the Victory’s Medina, Minnesota, plant …Â More info
February 8, 2009 – Staff and fans of BMW Motorrad are looking forward to March 1st 2009 with great excitement, because at the first race of the 2009 World Superbike Championship in Phillip Island, Australia, two BMW motorcycles will be in the starting line-up for the first time.
After recent tests in Portimão and Valencia, riders Troy Corser and Ruben Xaus are optimistic about the future and the mood in the BMW Motorrad Motorsport team is positive.Â
The racing bikes will be fairly close to serial production models, allowing for the greater audience identification characteristic of the sport. Behind the scenes meanwhile, production of the serial machine is getting underway: the BMW S 1000 RR. … More info
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Like elephants, motorcycles have their common burial grounds where they go to die. Unlike elephants, parts off these dead bikes come back to keep their compatriots alive.
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In Denver, the motorcycle graveyard is located just west off Santa Fe Blvd. at Union. It is called Steele’s Cycles. The address is 2025 W. Union Ave.
Steele’s sells a bit of everything. Their showroom holds about 80 bikes of all sorts, from cruisers to dirt bikes with a good share of sport bikes. Accessories and other parts are stored inside as well, and then there is the outside.
Outside you’ll find the carcasses of hundreds of motorcycles of all makes and models. If you’re looking for a frame, or a fork, or …Â More info
LONDON
— What would be the ideal address for Iron Maiden’s new hotel in London? How about 666 Satan’s Passage, or 1 Louder Than Ten Lane? Alas, it’s located in one of the quieter corners of Soho, with the city’s largest toy shop and a rather nice Zara around the corner.
On a recent morning, workmen unloaded vans outside the two genteel Victorian townhouses that have been knocked together to create the Sanctum Soho Hotel. The workers’ cigarettes were pretty much the only indication of antisocial activity: No champagne bottles crashed to the ground, no one was peeing out a top-floor window, and the only vinyl platform boots in sight belonged to gentlemen who can usually be found in that corner of Soho anyway…
…There was a time when you could drive a motorcycle down a hotel corridor, if you were on that month’s cover of Creem. Keith Richards could set fire to his hotel room, and Keith Moon could take the screws out of the furniture in his so that it would fall apart when the next guest arrived, and they’d still be invited back…Â More info
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