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Legendary Bikes: 1979 Honda CBX
Posted by Rob Brooks | Mar 30, 2023 | Legendary Bikes | 18 |
Legendary Bikes: Harley-Davidson XA
Posted by Rob Brooks | Jan 12, 2023 | Legendary Bikes | 2 |
Handling a Heritage
Posted by Rob Brooks | Jun 21, 2021 | Bikes & Gear | 7 |
Legendary Bikes: Board Track Racing
Posted by Road Dirt Crew | Feb 5, 2021 | Industry & Racing, Legendary Bikes | 3 |
Legendary Bikes: War of the Superbikes
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A Visit To Throttlestop
by Road Dirt Crew | Jun 19, 2023 | Legendary Bikes | 2 |
Our first contact with the Throttlestop Museum in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin came several years ago while Dean Phelps was shooting the MotoAmerica races at nearby Road America. Someone had mentioned the in-town establishment, and Dean took a break from the track action to go check it out. What he discovered was far more than some old rich guy’s dusty motorcycle collection. Dean found Throttlestop to be a full-blown museum, restoration center, and auction house for exotic motorcycles, automobiles, and high-performance engines.
Read MoreLegendary Bikes: 1979 Honda CBX
by Rob Brooks | Mar 30, 2023 | Legendary Bikes | 18 |
I was attending the annual Meltdown Vintage Motorcycle Show in Hendersonville, NC a few years back with my father, and as we walked among the old bikes lined up along the streets, I stopped and gawked at one of the wildest looking engines I’d ever seen shoehorned into a factory motorcycle before- a 1979 Honda CBX six-cylinder beast. I’d viewed them in pictures and a couple of museums before, but seeing one parked by the curb there, with its owner sitting behind in a small lounge chair sipping a local brew, I just had to linger and chat while my dad wandered off to check out some old Harleys.
Read MoreLegendary Bikes: Harley-Davidson XA
by Rob Brooks | Jan 12, 2023 | Legendary Bikes | 2 |
The first time I ever laid eyes on a Harley-Davidson XA was at my friend John Landstrom’s establishment, Blue Moon Cycle, about 7-8 years ago. John has a vast array of historic North American and European motorcycles in his collection/museum, and when I came across the XA in his World War II display, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. Is it a Harley? Or a BMW? Maybe a Ural knockoff of a BMW, in Allied livery? I was so confused. John proceeded to share with me a bit of the history of the XA model, and I was intrigued, being a history buff. This was a piece of Harley history I was unaware of. I later encountered one at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, and knew one day we’d have to tell its story.
Read MoreHandling a Heritage
by Rob Brooks | Jun 21, 2021 | Bikes & Gear | 7 |
Some 20 years ago a riding buddy asked me, “If you could own any one road bike for trips, around town, day riding, whatever, what would it be?” I gave that some thought, then replied, “I think I’d choose the Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail Classic. I just love the American tradition meets modern in that bike.” I found myself on a 1998 Yamaha Royal Star Tour Classic for many years, that brand’s answer to the Heritage, and loved it, but the H-D Heritage was always the original to me. My father later bought one, a 2003 100-Year Anniversary edition in silver/black, and he rode it with my mom all over the Southeast USA until his age and health forced the sale of the bike. I had a garage full at the time, but regretted not buying it from him. Such a beautiful, smooth, cool machine. Motorcycle Americana at its best.
Read MoreLegendary Bikes: Board Track Racing
by Road Dirt Crew | Feb 5, 2021 | Industry & Racing, Legendary Bikes | 3 |
No one will argue that it takes guts to race any motorcycle. Modern motorbike racing continues to excite and thrill in a way that no other sport can match. Even the most hardened Formula 1 or NASCAR fans will concede that those who risk life and limb on board these two-wheeled rockets are of a different breed.
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