I just got the latest issue of Cycle World.  Steve Anderson's article is fantastic.  He tells a great tale about how a large American corporation purchased and then screwed over a smaller company with its bad decisions and jealousy.  In the end over 200 people lost their jobs and Harley Davidson gave their CEO a few extra million dollars for being ( Read more... )

H-D announced today that they are dropping Buell and MV Agusta.  Both are sport bike companies purchased by H-D over the last few years.  Because of poor marketing strategies and lower profit hikes they have been unable to make a greedy enough profit to continue the lines.  So the best motorcycle company in America, the company that just produced ( Read more... )

Way back around '96 or so, I was out of town and we were stopping at a hotel one night.  In the back of a pickup truck was the most evil looking two wheeled machine I had ever laid eyes on.  It looked like something out of a sci-fi film or an anime.  It was blacker than the night with an arched back and a short wheelbase.  As I stared up into it's ( Read more... )