In Kawasaki’s Zero to Hero Challenge, Team Green invited anyone and everyone to enter to win an all-new ZX-14R. But winning the bike wouldn’t be that easy, as they’d have to beat nine-time AMA drag racing champion Rickey Gadson for it. To sweeten the pot, the entire experience would be captured on film by SPEED TV. Thousands entered, but there was only one winner. And a rather surprising winner at that    … Pictures and more
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It’s taken many years, but it pleases me greatly to announce that there is a new motorcycle lap record on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. At 7m10s BTG, Andy Carlile is now the fastest man ever to lap the 20832m Northloop on two wheels. Back of a fag-packet mathematics would place that as a 7m28s full lap time or even a 7m24s ‘industry’ time (which is a full lap minus the T13 straight)  … Pictures and more
It has been a month since we first reported about the Harley-Davidson motorcycle that washed up on Canadian soil, which was the first major piece of debris to hit North American soil from the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami. Remarkable in its own right, the American-made motorcycle was being stored in the back of box truck before the earthquake, and during the tsunami, the box separated from the vehicle and ended up floating across the Pacific Ocean over the past year.
Landing on Graham Island of British Columbia, the Harley has been  … More
Fans of the legendary Indian Motorcycle Co. – for decades Harley-Davidson Inc.’s biggest rival – have something to hope for as Indian rolls out new bikes with engines made in Osceola.
It won’t rekindle the famous “Indian wars” with Harley in the 1920s, but the latest resurrection of the maker of Chief motorcycles has a fighting chance – something not seen in decades  … More