The United States of America will soon be home to as many as ten – yes, ten – new outlets of the legendary Ace Café of London. Crass commercialization of an icon? Is it simply an indicator of the spreading cafe culture? Maybe they’re simply riding the café racer craze which has spawned countless TV [...]
Zero Motorcycles started back in 2006 with Neil Saiki and his wife, Lisa, building the first electric-powered motorcycles in their garage in Scotts Valley, California. From that typically entrepreneurial beginning – when the company was actually named Electricross – Saiki guided the company to where it is now; over 60 employees, large-scale production facilities and [...]
Scotts Valley, a small municipality north of Santa Cruz in California, has become the first city in The Golden State to employ the Zero DS electric motorcycle for use with its police department. The new addition will serve as a resource for local patrols and traffic enforcement. Zero has the perfect vehicle for such duties [...]
Honda’s famous Mojave Desert test track, the Honda Proving Center (HPCC), located seven miles north of California City in an unincorporated part of Kern County in California is now for sale. The HPCC consists of 4,255 acres and includes both the American Honda motorcycle and Honda automobile test circuits, all related facilities and a host [...]
Outside of the Michigan city of Saginaw – a 65 mile trip north from Flint – lies the town of Midland. There in that village is a landmark cultural destination known very well throughout the region, the Midland Center for the Arts. The Center hosts performances and exhibitions from around the globe and even manages [...]
Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. issued a statement this weekend saying that the company was placing a technical hold on all 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R sport bikes because of an undisclosed problem found to exist with the current design. Sounds like Kawasaki just needs to reboot the motorcycle to get things back on track. This motorcycle [...]
First and foremost we would like to say to the men in uniform, thank you for putting your lives on the line to keep us safe. We appreciate everything all you do; often we do not show our gratitude. We thought we would dig up some photographs of the motorcycles the men in uniform ride. [...]
To call Norton Motorcycles an icon in motorcycling is similar to calling George Lucas an icon of science-fiction films – it’s a no brainer and anyone who knows anything about either industry will know the name and much of the story. Norton was on its way back to production when Kenny Dreer, legendary Norton fabricator [...]
The 2010 EICMA show in Milan, Italy, has now come to a close, but new stories continue to flow out of the event in dazzling numbers. Several big announcements were made and new models drooled over by both the press and the public – this is normal for EICMA as it is the biggest show [...]
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