MOTORCYCLES

January 13, 2019

The Current: Novus, the Monocoque Flyer

Top Ten Bonhams Vegas 2019 Highlights

The 2019 Bonhams Las Vegas auction has 128 lots, making it a one-day event with...

Mecum’s Blockbuster 2019 Las Vegas Sale

Digging into the history of some of our favorite bikes coming up for auction at...

The Current: Saroléa Melds Google AI Into MANX7

To gain mass data collection for true AI responsiveness, Belgian e-bike maker...

A Year of Living Dangerously

The author’s wife decides to get her motorcycle license at 52, and through...

The Current: Fly Free Introduces Classic and Desert E-Bikes

Fly Free is a new California e-Bike manufacturer aiming at the ultra-hip with...

The Current: Eva Håkansson’s Quest to Break 400 mph With Green Envy

Will Eva Håkansson become the fastest woman in history an electric motorcycle,...

The Current: BigRep 3D Prints NERA E-Moto

BigRep's 3D-printed Nera E- Moto begs the question: will the dawn of additive...

NSU Breaks 200mph Barrier!

In 1956, the German NSU factory sent a team of six streamliners to Bonneville,...

The Current: Cake Making Waves

Sweden’s Cake is sweeping design and innovation awards by inventing a new...

Are Waymo Smarts Needed to Protect Motorcyclists?

A Waymo driverless van struck a motorcycle in its hometown of Mountain View,...

Fours Before Honda: 70 Years and 50 Brands

You’d be forgiven thinking Honda built the first production 4-cylinder motorcycle in 1968, when they introduced the CB750 and changed motorcycling forever. Nobody had previously built an inexpensive, reliable, high-performance ‘four’ in history; it was a magic trifecta, but in truth, Honda had plenty of four-pots to study, and copy, when designing the immortal CB line. From the earliest days of the motorcycle (and auto) industry, it was understood that more cylinders for a given engine capacity meant higher rpms with less stress, and more...