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If you crave cruising with the rumble of a big V-twin flooding your ear canals but can’t live without Japanese engineering precision, the Star Bolt from Yamaha might be the motorcycle of your dreams. But...
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The Yamaha XV920R (which was only offered in the U.S. for two years, 1981 and ‘82) was, when new at least, an acquired taste. The rear end styling – particularly the mounting of the rear...
An unfortunate fact of life in U.S. motorsports is that even if a particular form of racing is interesting and exciting, that doesn’t necessarily guarantee it will be popular with the public at large. Indycar...
Yamaha introduced the Virago XV750 in 1981 and, almost immediately, it convinced many-a-skeptic that the Japanese company could build a competent American-style V-twin cruiser. Furthermore, it looked the part, with a steeply raked front fork,...
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In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been featuring a lot of custom café racer motorcycles on the site lately. They all look the business, but that’s not the most noteworthy common thread tying them together;...
The story of this bike actually began with a request from the director of experimental film Reciprocity, Sunny Zhao, to John Ryland of soon-to-be Classified Moto. Sunny needed a bike fit for a cold, calculating...
Since 1999, Yamaha has been offering motorcyclists in Europe and other places that aren’t North America a large-displacement, retro-styled sport tourer called the XJR1300. The styling looks like a holdover from the late-1970s or early-1980s,...
When customizing a motorcycle, builders often focus on tweaking and refining the existing components. Other times, they add pieces in the name of giving a bike their personal touch. Sometimes these alterations work, and sometimes...
While burying the speedometer deep into the triple digits in a car is exciting (and something you should only do on a track…obviously…), doing the same thing on a motorcycle ratchets the excitement up exponentially....
Casey Stoner extended his MotoGP Championship lead over Jorge Lorenzo after winning this weekend’s Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Laguna Seca Raceway. Even after crashing heavily in qualifying, Jorge Lorenzo was still able to...