Daredevil Wednesday, a day of daring and exciting stunts, will take place during the Sturgis Buffalo Chip Music and Motorcycle Festival. Multiple stunts are currently already planned to attempt to set world records, and as a bonus, a Calling All Daredevils contest is also taking place, where daredevils nationwide can submit their own stunts, big or small, to perform. Continue Reading »
Nationwide motorcycle gear retailer Cycle Gear has announced the grand opening of its 98th outlet in the US. The store is located in Springfield, Virginia, just west of Alexandria and within easy riding distance from Washington, D.C.
To celebrate, Cycle Gear Springfield will have a grand opening celebration May 10-12. Continue Reading »
Show your USA spirit! To raise money for the 2013 International Six Days Enduro US team, the American Motorcyclist Association is offering official fundraising t-shirts to the public. Proceeds support the US effort in the ISDE in Sardinia, Italy, September 30-October 5. Continue Reading »
The Cult will join Kid Rock, Toby Keith, ZZ Top, Rob Zombie, Queensrÿche and more at the Buffalo Chip’s Sturgis summer music festival. The Cult is expected to bring trailblazing hard rock hits from the 80’s and 90’s as well as no-frills hard rock from their most recent album to the Sturgis motorcycle rally on Saturday August 3. Continue Reading »
This weekend, the MotoGP circus makes its way to the United States for round two of the world championship, held at the stunning new Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, the first time the track will host a world championship level motorcycle event. Expect to see the world’s fastest racebikes reach speeds over 200 mph on the 1 km (0.62-mile) back straight, and bring ear plugs — these bikes are loud!
Fresh off a 1-2 finish in the season opener in Qatar, Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi are looking to carry the momentum to CotA. Meanwhile, Repsol Honda riders Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez, who recently spent three days testing at the circuit, should be strong opposition for the factory Yamaha crew. And don’t forget Cal Crutchlow on the satellite Tech 3 Yamaha M1, as he’s sure to be a threat.
Motorcycles and rock ‘n’ roll. Ever since The King threw his leg over his ’56 Harley-Davidson and the Black Rebels rolled into Carbonville, the combination of motorcycles and rock have been as combustible as gas and spark.
Early moto-rock lived for the most part on the fringes of pop music, in the pomped-up rockabilly of guys like Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. In the ’60s, clean-cut Beach Boy-knockoff bands such as The Kickstands and The Hondells flirted with the mainstream using a tasty blend of surf rock and motorsickle lyrics on tracks like “Death Valley Run.” Parents, for some reason, didn’t find these pretty harmonies and catchy melodies about drag racing and outrunning cops nearly as offensive as the pretty harmonies and catchy melodies sung by British lads in daring moptops. “Da Do Run Run” was the theme of the day; motorcycles and rock cruised alongside Gidget and Frankie Avalon, and life was all Incense and Peppermints.
Then, as everybody knows, the stupid hippies went and screwed everything up. Continue Reading »
Back in the 60s, American Honda tested the durability of its motorcycles by sending a CL72 Scrambler on a 950-mile trek through rocks, sand washes, dry lake beds, mountain passes and paved roads. Fifty years later, that legendary run is remembered for inspiring one of the most significant off-road races in the world—the Baja 1000. In celebration, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is hosting a tribute dinner, one-day off road show, and summer-long exhibition called Braving Baja, 1,000 Miles to Glory. Continue Reading »
26 fewer deaths. If Michigan had not repealed its mandatory helmet law last year, a University of Michigan researcher estimates 26 fewer people could have died in motorcycle crashes in the state, MLive reports.
Those 26 fewer fatalities would represent a 21% reduction from 2011, said Carol Flannagan, a researcher at U of M’s Transportation Research Institute. Using the same analysis, Flannagan said there would have been 49 fewer serious injuries, an 8 percent reduction. Her comments were made during the first public analysis of 2012 Michigan motorcycle crash data on Thursday. Continue Reading »
Local Motors, a crowd-powered automotive innovator, is holding a motorcycle design challenge, and inviting you to enter. The challenge taps into Local Motors open global online community of 30,000-plus co-creators – including designers, engineers, manufacturers and enthusiasts – to design a custom motorcycle based on a stock 2000-2003 Harley Davidson Sportster for Arizona-based DP Custom Cycles. Continue Reading »
