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A Stripped Down and Refined Norton Model 50 – Bike Find of the Day

June 15, 2012 – 11:49 am

The Norton Model 50, manufactured from 1933 to 1939 and again after the war from 1956 through 1963, featured a modest 348cc, ohv single engine. Weighing in at a svelte 400 lbs dry weight and capable of a top speed of 75 mph, this little gem was also good for somewhere around 75 miles per [...]

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Deconstructing the Motorcycle For Domestic Uses

June 5, 2012 – 9:47 am

When Triumph Motorcycles turned loose a group of students at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in a room full of motorcycle parts, they took a slightly different than expected tack. Instead of asking the student designers to work on concepts for future machines, they asked the students to create some items for uses [...]

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Oh Lawdy Nothing Sweeter Than A Triumph Bobber

May 18, 2012 – 12:45 pm

Could the men of Hinckley have ever imagined what people would do with their machines? I have my doubts, but once you’ve seen the utterly stripped magnificence of a ’60s Triumph hardtail bobber, there’s no going back. The breed just says pure class, citizen. Roll up on one of these and be prepared to talk [...]

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Tom Cruise Says He's Not Afraid of a Little Road Rash

May 17, 2012 – 2:00 pm

Yeah he’s a movie star, a Hollywood superstar in fact, but Tom Cruise says he wanted to ride motorcycles since the age of 12. With horrifically bankable films behind him and more to come (like Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) Cruise is also famous for doing his own stunts from motorcycle chases, to hanging off [...]

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Local Builders Vying For Title at Charlotte Motorcycle Show

February 20, 2012 – 9:24 am

Darrell Murphy’s Honda 1500 The Progressive International Motorcycle Show is headed to Charlotte this coming weekend, and the lineup includes a couple of local builders vying for the freestyle custom title and the three-grand check that comes along with it. The Charlotte Convention Center show, like the shows before it in other cities across the [...]

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One Awesome Triumph Bonneville Custom From Toro Meyer

February 17, 2012 – 9:22 am

It appears Chris “Toro” Meyer, has had a wild ride through this life so far, and if all goes to plan, it’s going to get a lot wilder in the next year. Toro, aside from building this really fine Triumph Bonneville custom, The Bonneville Black, is planning to make a run at a speed record [...]

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Triumph Bonneville Black Custom From Toro Meyer

February 16, 2012 – 8:49 pm

What happens when you spin the motor out of your Bonneville acting up like a classic hooligan? If you’re Toro Meyer, you get on the horn to your engine-building pals and blow it up into a 1087 cc stroker, smooth it out with some serious suspension and bodywork, and come up with this. Photo by [...]