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Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring Electric Rides, Royal Enfield’s 125th Anniversary, Team Green’s Water-Burner, Dustin Kott’s Turbo Honda, the Triumph National Rally, and Oustanding Retro Racers. Get yours today!

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Under The Influence

Professional motorcycle test rider Jeremy Haynes...his job may soon be in jeopardy   Time was when new streetbike model launches were fairly straightforward affairs. Motorcycle manufacturers would issue invitations to journalists specializing in testing and...

A Bonneville Worth Building

Blake on our original Project Bonneville, circa 2010 We've long been of two minds concerning the first-generation Hinckley Triumph Bonnevilles. The air and oil-cooled parallel twins were introduced in 2001 at a time when the retro cafe racer craze wasn't exactly tops...

Memories of Ride-In Shows Past

We maintain a healthy archive of images from all 12 of our previous Reader's Ride-In Bike Shows and deep within we find some stirring examples of unique machines that you, our faithful readers have built for the show. It still amazes us that mechanics and fabricators...

Something Fishy Here…

  One of my favorite parts of traveling by motorcycle is the strange cultural sites that appear by the roadside. Over the past 40-odd years of riding two-wheelers, I've come across some sights that make for excellent post-ride bull sessions with some of the...

Collecting Or Hoarding?

In an upcoming issue, we'll be profiling several motorcycle enthusiasts who share  a common malady: they can't bring themselves to sell any of their motorbikes. It seems that everywhere we travel, we're told of people who have amassed enormous, multi-bike collections...

Paint Your Wagon

  One of the most exciting parts of planning any custom project bike involves selecting a paint job. Alongside the giddy (and often wallet-flattening) process of choosing which components are to comprise your dream ride, the art of selecting, well, art for a...