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One Man’s Trash… | MC M.C.

How many bikes is too many? Contributor John L. Stein draws the line at 23, which meant bike number 24, a dilapidated 1981 Kawasaki AR50, needed a new home. The addition of the AR brings Ari Henning’s...

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Moto Kids | MC M.C.

When the AMA Supercross series rolled into Anaheim, California, this past January, motocross kids Derek Stein and Jack Phreaner lucked into pit passes that they wielded to gain access to Women’s champ...

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Panigale Paparazzi | MC M.C.

Photo: Nicky Hayden Speaking of Nicky Hayden, guess who shot this photo at the Ducati 1199 Panigale intro and fashion show atop the W Hotel in Hollywood? “Ducati don’t throw no amateur parties,” read...

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Ritual Humiliation Un-Covered | MC M.C.

Recently recovered from the bottom drawer of a dusty, overstuffed filing cabinet, this artifact from 1990 offers tangible proof of a grotesque ritual humiliation visited upon each member of the...

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All Stars, Then and Now | MC M.C.

AMA Hall of Fame dirt-track tuner Bill Werner had something special to show us at the Steel Shoe Fund endurance ice race: his 1976 Motorcyclist Magazine All Star Award, complete with commemorative...

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Dirty Girl | MC M.C.

Dirt Rider magazine recently hosted a Ride Day at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California. It was a nice break from the office, and a good opportunity for dirt virgins like our web producer,...

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Time Machine MC M.C.

When Motorcyclist Editor-in-Chief Brian Catterson learned that Cobra Engineering would be displaying many of the customs it has created over the past 20 years at last February’s Indianapolis Dealer...

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Biker Boot Camp

Harley-Davidson’s girls-only Garage Parties have been so successful that The Motor Company has now launched Motorcycle Boot Camp for dudes. Billed as “basic training” for anyone interested in becoming...

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Indianapolis Dealer Show

The two most powerful words in advertising clearly worked at the Indianapolis Dealer Show, as Motorcyclist Road Test Editor Ari Henning found himself inexplicably drawn to the H&H booth. Maybe it...

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Joe Versus The Husqvarna

This one almost pushed Mrs. Gresh over the edge—although she’s taking it better than Joe’s old 1983 Honda Magna 1100. Maybe because this one runs? Anyway, resistance is futile: Sometimes you get the...

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Team Hansen—Still Winning!

Bob Hansen is still alive and well at age 92, and his 1967 Honda CR450 (pictured on page 88)—or at least a replica of thatbike—is still winning races! Here, Hansen poses with Sportsman 350 and 500cc GP...

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Book Smart

Back in the early 2000s, when he was still a starving, Honda CB500-riding grad student at Chicago’s DePaul University, Motorcyclist Editor-at-Large Aaron Frank wrote a book called Honda Motorcycles as...

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Fair Trade

After admiring Ben Spies since early in his AMA Superbike days, Motorcyclist contributor Peter Starr had an opportunity to trade books with the MotoGP phenom during one of his International Motorcycle...

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World Premiere of the New Marvel Comics Movie The Avengers

Photos: Brian Catterson and Alfonse Palaima Wait a second, is that…? Yes, it is: It’s none other than Motorcyclist’s always lovely Web Producer Annette Carrion at the world premiere of the new Marvel...

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“Class of 2012” Video

In the good old days, insecure moto-journalists cowered behind their computer screens, painstakingly crafting each individual syllable for maximum wit. But in today’s brave new “cross-media” world,...

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Aaron Frank low-siding Our Gorgeous, 50th-anniversary Yamaha YZF-R1

As the old Pretenders song goes, “We are all of us in the gutter”—especially during our annual “Class of” sportbike comparison, where someone always seems to throw away at least one bike. This year it...

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Bridgestone Tire Tech Rory O’Neill’s Original, Unrestored, Gray-Market 1986...

Ripping around Chuckwalla Valley Raceway aboard the latest superbikes is fine and dandy, but the real high point for Aaron Frank and Ari Henning during our “Class of 2012” testing was an end-of-day...

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Man vs. Van

Launching 150-bhp literbikes down the dragstrip is intense work. So what better way to blow off steam than with a friendly grudge match? Everyone loves a car-vs.-bike matchup, but this one was barely...

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“The Dream Never Gets Old” ride in Taiwan

Come October, famed filmmaker (and Motorcyclist contributor) Peter Starr will accompany a select group of “age-appropriate” Americans on “The Dream Never Gets Old” ride in Taiwan (see “The Grand...

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Joe Gresh at the Star Motorcycles Press Intro

The Star Motorcycles team thought of everything at the press intro for their 2012 model line, held at Georgia’s dee-luxe Chateau Elan, just down the road from Road Atlanta. Even riding gear for Joe...

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