What do expensive watches have to do with motorcycles? If you could rent a top of the line motorcycle for several months at a time each year, perhaps committing to several rentals, would that satisfy your annual need to ride? Is there a market for long term rental motorcycles? I don't mean renting a Harley for a few days to tour the Pacific Coast Highway or leasing a motorcycle … [Read more...]

Among the long list of motorcycles introduced at EICMA, we just noticed one that slipped by at first, the brand new Brough Superior SS100. It's quite the bike. It's been a work in progress for a long time and we can imagine there was a lot of planning and debate within the company before launching a new model carrying the name of the most famous Brough Superior of all … [Read more...]

When's the last time you heard the name Harley Davidson associated with anything other than heavyweight motorcycles? Well, get used to it, because they're introducing two new models, the Street 750 and Street 500 based on a whole new platform powered by a liquid cooled Revolution Xâ„¢ powertrain. Looks like they're fighting in the middleweight class now. UPDATE: As expected, … [Read more...]

Photos started to surface about a week ago of this new Honda CTX1300. As soon as I saw it, I thought, "Hmm, ... Motus." Two different approaches to longitudinal V4 motorcycles. Let's see what we have. The Honda comes in at 1261cc compared to 1650cc for the Motus and while the Motus comes in at 160 or 180 horsepower, depending on whether you get the "R" model, the Honda, … [Read more...]

The California Scooter Company has revived the old Mustang motorcycles, a pretty popular little scooter from the 1950s. The new versions looks very similar to the old originals and with the customer's choice of either a 125cc 150cc or 250cc engine, you get a perfectly capable little motorcycle you can have a lot of fun with without a huge investment. The basic models … [Read more...]

Erik Buell brought out his newest offering, the EBR 1190RX, which seems to be the more street friendly version of the 1190RS Super Bike, though at 419 pounds, 185 horsepower and 102 foot pounds of torque, we're still looking at a very serious machine here. The tech specs detailed below are impressive, but let's talk price, MSRP is $18,995! What a difference a partnership … [Read more...]