It’s a long, long way from the Confederate Wraith – the bike that together with some tidying-up of the Hellcat established JT Nesbitt’s design credentials …
Victory Racing / Roland Sands Pikes Peak, ‘Race to the Clouds’: Part 2
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudViD3y1Lc&w=560&h=315]
Riding the Plug&Play Harley-Davidson
Project Livewire is on the European leg of its journey and we got the opportunity to find out what the future might hold. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHlG0A-HIFU&w=560&h=315] …
American-300V: Harley-Davidson Project Livewire
My first experience of their potential was fitting a Shorai from MAG Europe to my Buell Cyclone, which spins the 1203cc Sportster-derived motor like as …
Project 156
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpiTywuIr04&w=560&h=315] Prototype liquid-cooled DOHC Victory engine at the heart of Roland Sands / Victory /Cycle World Project 156 bike.
Street Fightin’
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJm3yZz1Ri4&w=560&h=315] Harley are starting to ramp up the hype for the new Street range in the US. Don’t go getting too excited about the …
Plug and Play Prototype Promotion
• • • P R E S S R E L E A S E • • • European riders invited to shape the …
Victory Magnum-X1 Pushes the Sound Barrier
I’m speechless … or is that drowned out by the sound of 200W of speakers from Victory’s latest addition to the Cross-series tourers? There comes …
Scout Quickspin
Down at Krazy Horse’s dealership launch party I finally got to take a Scout round the block and I’m hungry for a much longer roadtest! …
Slammed Ikon-ic Shovel
Had a few hours in the workshop this afternoon playing with my spanners, and the result is that the Low Rider is riding lower on …
Sena Prism Bluetooth Action Camera Test
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwuozKakJlA&w=560&h=315] This is not the last you will see of hear of the Prism, because there is one fundamental thing I didn’t sort out …
Aggressively-priced Indian Dark Horse launched.
The time for teasing is over: Indian’s 2016 Chief Dark Horse, due on Spring/Summer 2015, looks set to put Indian’s 111-inch Thunderstroke-engined Chief into the …
Quick review of 2015 highlights in video form.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a053Xlt2ubI&w=560&h=315] We’ve got hours of footage from the year that shows the breadth of American motorcycles in the UK, and even so it’s only …
2016 Dark Horse teased
We’ve been on alert, waiting for news of the Dark Horse since the California Air Research Board (CARB) site showed it was coming, but …
Patrick Delli’s 4-cam flathead on the salt at Bonneville
Only just come across this, shared on the Harley-Davidson Riders of GB Facebook page, of my near neighbour, Patrick Delli (aka the French Owl) at …
Harley’s First Softail … in 1918?
Not everything that goes through the US Patent Office makes it to the production line, but a forward-thinking William S Harley was thinking about rear …
Generation Game
Okay, so technically the Tour Glide isn’t quite a Road Glide, but there’s no getting away from the Project Rushmore tourer that we had to wait an …
OUTRIDER by Klock Werks Kustom Cycles
The second of two customs being shown at New York, to demonstrate the potential within the new Indian Scout. The interesting juxtaposition of classic style …
SCOUT42 by Dirty Bird Concepts
There’s plenty of custom potential within the new Indian Scout, and I’m really looking forward to seeing how that develops over the next twelve months. …
Beetlejuice by Twin City Motorcycles
Most shops will pick a bike up from a customer’s home but Steve, from Twin City Motorcycle in Jarrow, picked Beetlejuice up off the road, …
Proposed new standard unit of measurement: an FXS LowRider.
Clearing up round the workshop, I was reminded that I’d compared Harley’s new LowRider to the original model when we tested it a few issues …
A Sunny Disposition
When I couldn’t find the Global Vision Ultra24 photochromic riding glasses that Paul Burdass from Fat Skeleton had given me to review, I was proper …
.44 Magnum?
We’ll see Victory’s Magnum – which we assume was named after the .357 caliber Magnum cartridge rather than the ice cream – at this year’s Motorcycle …
XR1200CR by Vintique
Much better known for cool ironhead Sportsters and Shovels, Sean from Vintique in Stoke-on-Trent has stepped out of his comfort zone to redefine the Harley-Davidson …
AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building results
• • • P R E S S R E L E A S E • • • Freddie ‘Krugger’ Bertrand joined the exclusive club …
The Trip Out 2014
A blast from the past, and a brilliant couple of days in the sun.
Scared of Spyders? How about Scorpions?
Can-Am’s Spyder has been around for a few years now, as have the blueprints for a ‘reversed trike’ bearing Harley-Davidson’s mark in the US Patent …
Anyone for a new American sportbike?
• • • P R E S S R E L E A S E • • • In October of 2012 we announced the formation …
Project Livewire.alt: the Incredibly Silent Grey Fellow?
I’m fascinated to know how this would be received by a wider public 🙂 This was running around the The Trip Out for the whole …
Bulldog Bash 2014
Just a brief glimpse of the Bulldog Bash on Friday evening: filling-up nicely. And with a blood red sun illuminating the sky as I left, …
RSD Indian Chief!
The first custom Thunderstroke I’ve seen, and looking forward to more. Nice one Roland Sands Design!
Rushmore Road Glide
There is a video on Harley’s media site that I’m trying to get downloaded to share, but until that comes good you’ll have to make …
Scoop! New Indian Middlewight spotted at The Burning Budgie! :)
Made you look! And it’s not as though there’s no precedent 🙂
2015 Victory Magnum takes custom Bagger style to the Street
• • • P R E S S R E L E A S E • • • Victory Motorcycles today stunned the motorcycle world …
2-Tone Chiefs for 2015
• • • P R E S S R E L E A S E • • • New paint schemes on Indian Chief Classic, …
2015 Victory Magnum takes custom Bagger style to the Street
• • • P R E S S R E L E A S E • • • Victory Motorcycles today stunned the motorcycle world …
2015 Polaris Slingshot
The new model news is coming in thick and fast from Polaris, starting with an all new vehicle under the Polaris name itself. The Slingshot …
2015 Chiefs
• • • P R E S S R E L E A S E • • • New paint schemes on Indian Chief Classic, …
EBR’s 185hp Helicon Superfighter
• • • P R E S S R E L E A S E • • • EBR introduces new 1190SX ‘Superfighter’ sport bike …
Scout UK Price Announced
Having drowned beneath the amount of information and number of images from the Indian Scout launch, I’ve been keeping the next posting until the first …
2014 CVO Breakout: 110-inch Twin Cam that’s dressed to impress.
Harley don’t often put a CVO on their roadtest fleet, so when they do we make sure we get hold of it before someone does …