Big Dog Motorcycles®, the leading manufacturer of high performance, high style motorcycles, is pleased to announce its all-new Wolf received the 2009 V-Twin Bike of the Year award at the 9th annual V-Twin Expo, the industry’s largest trade show, held February 7-9 in Cincinnati.
Presented by Paisano Publications, a worldwide diversified media company offering a wide variety of motorcycle magazines, including Easyriders and V-Twin, the award marks the second year in a row the company has received …Â More info
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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
If there are two things that seem to have an affinity for each other they are kids and dirt.
Throw in a mountain bike, and you’re about halfway to childhood nirvana.
Or at least that’s the way it appeared to be when a bunch of high-school kids were tearing up the fire roads and single tracks in and around the Tamarancho Boy Scout Camp in Fairfax this past weekend.
And the sloppy conditions brought on by recent rains only seemed to enhance the experience, as the grins – as well as mud-splattered clothing and begrimed bikes – were evident when the mixed-gender group of teenagers pulled into the camp headquarters for a mid-day lunch break.
These kids, maybe a couple dozen all told, were part of a preseason training camp put on by the NorCal High School Mountain Bike Racing League, which is entering its ninth season this spring…. More info
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The Kaua‘i High School girls paddling team made the strongest Kaua‘i showing at the First Hawaiian Bank Canoe Paddling championships, Saturday on Maui.
After holding off a strong Kapa‘a girls team in the Kaua‘i Interscholastic Federation championships and earning the state berth on a tie-breaker, the Raider ladies finished the two-heat semifinals with a solid No. 4 seeding following a 4:20.75 paddle at the Hanakao‘o Beach Park.
This was based on the strong pace set by Punahou girls who finished the semifinals witha 4:12.23 run.
In the finals, Punahou, capturing top honors in the Varsity mixed and Varsity girls and second in the Varsity boys by just .46 second, finished on top with a 4:23.56 run compared to Kaua‘i’s No. 5 finish at 4:44.77.… More info