by Abhilasha Singh from https://www.financialexpress.com The method to update software for Honda Gold Wing is planned to be available in the mid of June 2020. Honda has said it will introduce Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration to more models eventually. Honda Gold Wing cruiser motorcycle will now come with Android Auto, the update for […]
by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Absolutely awesome. These are the words used by a German custom bike garage to describe the Specula, a motorcycle the like of which the European continent had never been gifted with before. Used to seeing incredible motorcycle builds coming from the U.S., the world is at times blind when it
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Will the Tesla CEO make good on this threat? BY PATRICK GEORGE ood morning and welcome back to Speed Lines, The Drive’s morning roundup of what matters in cars and transportation. Today we’re talking about Tesla firing back at California, and the rest of the auto industry’s cautious reopening of North American car factories. ‘I’m Not Messing
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First you have to finish by Andy Reynolds A personal account of a life racing classic motorcycles. Andy Reynolds was fortunate enough to ride the best classic machines between 1976 & 2016 at the highest level, and on some of the best-known courses in the world. Told in his own words, this book recounts his successes,
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Some ups and downs… I completely understand the need not to overwhelm our medical industry. And recently the Sturgis Rally discussion surfaced. One report worried that all the decision makers had solely financial cards in play and that the decision might be forced in one direction, to make money off the rally. I said the
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com/ Generally, the GT moniker is reserved for a particular breed of cars, built specifically to offer performance, thrills, and looks to die for, even on long distance drives. But it is used on motorcycles as well to advertise the machines’ capability of handling long trips and high speeds simultaneously. There
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Hey, My son called last night. He’s a tattoo artists at All Saints in Austin, Texas. He’s been sorta shut down at home in Texas and like so many, started to watch all the weird shit conspiracy theories. I’ve noticed that some of my brothers are getting a little edgy. It’s time we got back
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Tools Are Always Terrific Gifts, Especially When They Work! Okay, as we all know tool kits are terrific presents for any biker. They are everywhere, in fact, the other day I was digging around and found a flashlight setting on a shelf. No big deal, right? This damn flashlight was six inches tall and the
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com At times, simply removing some parts and adding new wheels on a motorcycle is all it takes to transform a mass-produced vehicle into a unique build in the world of custom bikes. The motorcycle pictured in the gallery above, even if it may not look like it, started life as
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com It’s been about three years since one of the most appreciated touring motorcycles on the American market, Honda’s Gold Wing, got the blessing of Apple Carplay connectivity. During these three years, Android devices owners must have felt quite left out. That will change as of this summer, as starting next
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com The LiveWire electric motorcycle is not proving to be the killer product Harley-Davidson was hoping for, at least for now. Introduced in 2019 as the first electric bike made by an established player in the industry, the LiveWire needs all the boost it can get to compete with similar products
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by Nujaree Raekrun from https://www.bangkokpost.com A naked man seized a motorcycle from a shocked woman at an intersection in Sichon district on Sunday and rode off on it, and police finally found him at a nearby market on Tuesday – still without clothes. Sunday’s incident occurred in full view of pedestrians and motorists. It was
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by Zhaki Abdullah from https://www.channelnewsasia.com SINGAPORE: Although the COVID-19 pandemic had affected their initial plans, two Singapore-based start-ups are still set on revving up efforts to produce their own electric motorbikes. This comes as Singapore relaxed its rules on electric motorcycles in April, allowing high-powered motorbikes with power ratings of more than 10kW to be
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com/ Try as you might, you will not find many high-quality customized Suzukis out there. But when luck strikes, something like the GS650GL in the gallery below might pop up. The GS series was born as the bike maker’s first proper range of 4-stroke engined motorcycles in the late 1970s. In
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com When it first used the Softail frame for one of its bikes decades ago, Harley-Davidson had no way of knowing what it would begin to stand for, and what an influence this type of bike would have on the motorcycle world. In its own backyard, Harley’s Softails, described in Milwaukee
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com In the world of custom motorcycles, there are more Harley-Davidsons and custom frames than anything else. Yet there are some builds, based on other motorcycles, that sure deserve their time under the spotlight. Among them is this BMW R80 RT from 1984. Part of the range that was built by
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Despite the increasing interest of the customers in electric motorcycles, established bike makers are still reluctant to jump on this new mobility train. Only one of them, arguably the world’s most famous, announced a mass-production electric motorcycle. That’s the LiveWire, shown by Harley-Davidson in 2019, should have been a game
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JUNE 5-7, 2020 RODEO AT BLOOMSBURG FAIRGROUNDS IN BLOOMSBURG, PA. Easyriders Rodeos held in Fowlerville, Michigan, on Aug. 21–23, & Chillicothe, Ohio, on Sept. 3–7, 2020 have NOT been affected May 8, 2020 (Los Angeles, CA.) — At the direction of local health officials, we must regretfully confirm the cancellation of our June 2020 event,
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The Wheels Through Time amazing motorcycle museum is now Dale’s Wheels Through Time Museum. It’s actually sorta old news from the AMCA last year. If you’re not a member consider joining. They produce the best, highest quality, most informative magazine in our industry currently. Back to the old news. As of last fall the motorcycle
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This is some leather work one of my students Tony Roland created. Great job Tony. All the healthy Best Adam Croft Dime Bag Leather Watch for more news about the Dime Bag Product Line in the Bikernet Weekly News later this week. –Bandit
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Back in 2014, a German motorcycle racing team known back then as Kodewa introduced the Lotus C-01 concept, a “menacingly retro-futuristic” two-wheeler with 200 hp coming from the engine of a KTM Superbike. Some time later, the concept inspired a custom build in the most unlikely of places. Penned by
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by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com So, you own a Lamborghini Aventador, and that in itself is reason enough to be proud. But often times supercar owners find themselves in need of some other motorized sidekick contraption for their cars. So did a German Aventador owner, who must have thought there’s something missing from his garage,
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by Rahul Kapoor from https://www.financialexpress.com With Matt Levatich stepping down, Harley Davidson had appointed Jochen Zeitz to lead the brand in the interim. But Zeitz has now been appointed as the president and CEO for the Milwaukee based motorcycle manufacturer. Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle brand has elevated interim President and CEO Jochen Zeitz as
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