Over two years ago we showed you the Harley Davidson Patent for a water cooled head design and it looks like it just arrived with their new Twin Cooledâ„¢ High Output Twin Cam 103â„¢. If you look at the photo above and compare it to the patent drawings, you'll see it's a well disguised water cooling system enclosed within the fairing lowers. Here's how Harley describes … [Read more...]

Hero MotoCorp, already involved in a technical alliance and sponsorship of EBR racing teams, just bought a 49.2 percent stake in Erik Buell Racing for $25 million. The remaining majority portion of the company is still held by Erik Buell. Ravi Sud, chief financial officer of Hero MotoCorp, said Erik Buell would be utilized as an extended research and development center and … [Read more...]

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 of you, though as a few years passed and the … [Read more...]

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 of a serial number - that corresponds with each … [Read more...]

Ever since Polaris bought the struggling Indian Motorcycle Company, there has been a lot of speculation about what it was going to do. A lot of you have been fearing the new Indian would be nothing more than a fancy and higher priced Victory, which would pretty much seal the fate on another attempt to resurrect the brand, but it looks like Polaris really is serious about Indian … [Read more...]