Motorcycle Business

Wakan Motorcycles is Reborn as Avinton Motorcycles

January 27, 2013
Avinton Motorcycles is Wakan Reborn, a French S&S V-Twin sport bike

It’s been almost seven years since we first wrote about Wakan Motorcycles and the Wakan 1640, a French V-Twin sport bike, designed around an S&S 1640 and wrapped in a minimal frame, the idea was to emulate the AC Cobra, installing a big American powerplant in a small and light European chassis. I thought it looked great, as did many [...]

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Magpul Ronin 1125R Coming This Year

January 17, 2013
Magpul Ronin 1125R

It’s been three years since we told you the Magpul Ronin 1125R was slated for possible production. Things have been quiet, but no more, they’ve just announced the bike will be built, beginning mid 2013, in a limited production run of 47, inspired by the 47 Ronin warriors. … each hand-built bike will be issued a name – in lieu [...]

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Could Shale Gas Help Kick Start Motorcycle Manufacturing and Sales in the US?

January 9, 2013
Drilling for shale gas in Pennsylvania

If you live in the US and you’ve been paying attention, you already know fracking is opening up huge reserves of natural gas and consequently lowering the price, lower by far than most everywhere else in the world. While some might look at that as a sign we should convert all of our internal combustion engines to CNG, which isn’t [...]

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