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Looks like Harley is going to have more North American competition: At a press conference late Wednesday, the CEO of Johnson Marine, makers of Johnson outboard marine engines and other recreational equipment, unveiled a new line of heavyweight cruiser style motorcycles designed to compete head to head with industry leader Harley-Davidson. Peter Long, Johnson brands marketing manager said, "We have studied the market and determined that Harley, while highly successful, has narrowly missed the mark when targeting motorcycle buyers". Long added, "We, at Johnson, are convinced our product hits the target dead center and promises to draw sales away from...

Married biker said 'I've had the privilege to be part of an amazing club' in message posted to Facebook after he died Sonny Barger has died aged 83 after a cancer battle surrounded by his wife Zorana and his loved ones The Oakland, California, biker was the founding member of the Hells Angels motorcycling group in the 1950s He had many run-ins with the law and spent some time in prison but beat murder and racketeering charges

Jean Baretto continues to fight for his life after sheriff’s tasered him at a gas pump nearly three months ago. On Wednesday, it was revealed that Baretto’s legal team has allegedly obtained surveillance footage from a WaWa gas station in Central Florida where the incident took place. The incident shows their client being tackled from behind by one deputy while another hits him with a taser. That taser shot ignited the fire ball that engulfed Barreto and two nearby deputy’s according to the State Fire Marshall. The family and attorney’s of the man say he never committed a crime. At...

Hookie Co. has created this fully-electric motorcycle designed to play a part in interstellar mobility. The Tardigrade is a 8.5 feet long fully-electric motorcycle with a tubular exoskeleton that has a 68 mile range when fully charged. This won’t replace the rover but adds an additional source of transportation on the moon's surface, and while on Earth the Tardigrade is 300 lbs. On the moon, the motorcycle will only weigh 50 lbs. Learn more at Autoblog.com VIDEO AT LINK...... Transcript: Moon motorcycle concept. The Tardigrade is not your average motorcycle designed by the German-based company Hookie. This concept is for...

A motorcyclist who was apparently performing stunts in a Santa Clarita mall parking structure died after flying over the handlebars and falling several floors, officials said Monday. The victim was only described by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as being female. The incident occurred at the parking structure of the Westfield Town Center in Santa Clarita.

[1:21 video clip] ""#3D Printed Electric Motorcycle. I'll take one! (Mashable) #EV #Transportation" All 15 parts of this e-bike are 3D printed..."

BSA Motorcycles is back and is set to reveal its first new model in decades on December 4 (Spoiler: this classic Rocket 3 isn't it)BSA Motorcycles VIEW 2 IMAGES One of the world’s leading motorcycle manufacturers of the 1950s and 60s, BSA is set to resume operations almost half a century after it went bankrupt, funded by its new owner, India’s Mahindra & Mahindra, and with a new factory under construction in England. BSA Motorcycles Ltd. broke the news with the first ever tweet in its brand new Twitter account: “Return of a Legend. #BSAisBack. We’ve evolved, but our DNA...

The Wattman was upgraded with a host of go-fast componentry. A more potent and lighter battery was installed. The motor was juiced to produce 435 hp. The double-wishbone suspension was adjusted for better precision. And perhaps most importantly, the bike was draped in a carefully developed aerodynamic fairing that resembles one half of a VW XL1. Not that it did much for noise mitigation. "It’s very different from when I used to ride noisy bikes, with a thermal engine. Because electric motors make just the little zzzzzzttttt," Biaggi said. "But at speed, the wind creates a really big noise. You...

ORANGE CITY — An Orange City woman who was also a Volusia County librarian was fatally shot Saturday after she pointed a handgun at a man whose motorcycle she had earlier hit and the man returned fire. The shooting occurred at about 5:14 p.m. at the woman's home in the 1000 block of E. Wisconsin Ave., said Orange City Police Lt. Jason Sampsell. In a press release, the police identified the woman as Sara-Nicole Morales, 35. A press release from Volusia County identified Morales as an employee of the county's library system. The motorcyclist was identified as Andrew Derr, 40,...

Rolling Art: The Supermarine is being manufactured on a built-to-order basis - Bandit9 =============================================================================== When we last heard about Vietnamese custom motorcycle builder Bandit9, it was creating a shiny sci-fi scrambler that started out as a 1967 Honda Supersport. The company's new Supermarine drops the retro angle entirely – this bike is definitely from the future. Taking its name from the British company that built the Spitfire fighter plane – so no, not too futuristic in that way – the Supermarine is powered by a liquid-cooled, 8-valve, SOHC, 900cc Triumph Twin engine that can be upgraded to 1,200 cc. The...

A Florida man who "drove well over 100mph" on his motorcycle in a bid to escape police told officers he was trying to show off for his passenger, as it was their first date. That's according to Clearwater Police, who say 22-year-old Taylor Beverly ran a red light while riding his white 2017 Suzuki, accompanied by a female passenger, on Saturday night, per Newsweek. He then turned around and made eye contact with officers before speeding away(snip) Officers pursued Beverly but ultimately ended the chase after he ran several more red lights and began weaving in and out of traffic...

Could this audacious electric scooter be the Honda Cub of the 21st Century? Ola is betting big on the S1Ola Electric ======================================================================== India's Ola Electric is mounting a huge assault on the motorcycle market with the clever, cheap, high-tech S1 scooter. Talk about volume; Ola's building the world's biggest motorcycle "Futurefactory," capable of producing 10 million bikes a year. Put another way, that's a bike every two seconds. Put yet another way, when this 500-acre, carbon-negative, 10 production line, 3,000-plus robot behemoth starts manufacturing at full capacity, it will be making more than one-seventh as many motorcycles as the entire...

They may be new to the EV motorcycle manufacturing game, but Danish manufacturer Offset is crashing the party with style and guts. Their new battery-powered cycle, OFR-M1, does what few have tried before by cramming a brawny all-electric drivetrain into a cycle aimed at taking on off-road terrain. While it may weigh in at just 253 pounds (115 kg), this rough and tumble dirtbike can do zero to 62 mph (99 kph) in 4.5 seconds and reach a top speed of 80 mph (128 kph). It does the trick by using a 6.2 kWh battery pack to spin a “radial...

How far will you go to meet someone you know online? An Indonesian teenager went as far as selling her dad’s motorcycle in order to purchase flight tickets to Jakarta and meet her online crush. Indri, who was from Jambi, had met the boy via an online game Free Fire, and wanted to meet him in Jakarta, Tribun News reported. She then sold her father’s motorcycle for 20 million rupiah (S$1,870) in exchange for flight tickets to the capital. However, the teen’s plan went awry when the boy said that he did not want to meet up with her in...

Rolling to Remember has announced the official route for its motorcycle rally through Washington, D.C. on Memorial Day weekend. An estimated 50,000 motorcycles will stage and disperse from parking lot 8 of RFK Stadium at 12 p.m. on May 30 and make their way through D.C., and circle the National Mall. The second annual Rolling to Remember Demonstration Ride follows a three-decade-long ride hosted by Rolling Thunder. The ride, which calls for furthered efforts to recover American POW/MIAs as well as awareness for veteran suicide, will round the border of the District by way of Interstate 395 en route to...

The BMW driver whose ride was surrounded and trashed by a gang of bicyclists on Fifth Avenue was attacked in broad daylight while driving with his elderly mom — who screamed during their escape, “We’re going to die, they’re going to kill us!” Max Torgovnick, 36, recounted the harrowing run-in to The Post one day after it unfolded around 4 p.m. Tuesday at 21st Street and Fifth Avenue. “It’s something that I never expected to happen in New York City,” said Torgovnick, a lifelong city resident. “That’s something like you would see on the streets of a war zone. I...

The Chennai-based brand is also said to be working on a brand new 650cc cruiser motorcycle as well. The new 650cc cruiser has been spotted testing in India on multiple occasions and should go on sale sometime early next year as well. Thoughts On Royal Enfield Introducing Alloy Wheels On The 650-Twins The Royal Enfield 650-Twins have been successful models for the brand in the Indian market. The two motorcycles have also managed to take over the middle-weight motorcycle segment in India. The company will be hoping to improve its sales further with the introduction of alloy wheels.

The bad news about the unprecedented dangers of COVID-19 just keeps piling up. We’ve known for months that we’re dealing with the first virus known to cause motorcycle fatalities. And health officials have warned that COVID-19 is causing fatal crashes even when there are no underlying conditions!

As COVID-19 cases surpass five million in the U.S. - and deaths exceed 162K, according to Johns Hopkins University & Medicine - tens of thousands of motorcyclists rode into South Dakota for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally - most of which were unmasked and not following social distancing guidelines. “No, we didn’t take any precautions,” Rally attendee Jim Busch told the New York Times, adding that he thinks the coronavirus pandemic, which he refers to as a “situation,” is “manufactured. “There’s ulterior motives behind this, so we’re not concerned.” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is a 10-day event that is estimated...

Thousands of bikers heading to South Dakota’s 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will not be allowed through Cheyenne River Sioux checkpoints, a spokesman for the Native American group said on Saturday. The decision to prevent access across tribal lands to the annual rally, which could attract as many as 250,000 bikers amid fears it could lead to a massive, regional coronavirus outbreak, comes as part of larger Covid-19 prevention policy. The policy has pitted seven tribes that make up the Great Sioux Nation against federal and state authorities, which both claim the checkpoints are illegal.