$25,000 Minibike Will Blow Your Mind And My Budget
I don’t know why it should, but it really bugs me that there are riders out there who can drop $25,000 on a minibike! A toy. A product with no practical purpose but having a…
Year: 2021
Running When Parked ’84 Yamaha XT Fetches $1,550 At Auction
The days of snatching up a motorcycle at auction for dimes on a dollar are over. Proof in point, this very nice Yamaha. While the winning bid of $1,550 isn’t too far out of the…
E-Bikes Add Speed To San Luis Obispo’s Emergency Response Squad
This is cool news out of the San Luis Obispo Fire Department. In an effort to improve rescue response times, the SLO fire department has added a secret weapon. E-bikes! “It is amazing how much…
Cat 3-4 Racer Dies While Riding His Dream Race
Valley News is reporting that Evan Barr-Beare, a 33-year-old Rhode Island scientist, suffered a possible medical issue while leading his class at the 40th annual Concord Criterium bicycle race. Evan veered off course, crashed and did…
Serial 1 Custom-fabricated E-Bike Fetches $14,200 At Auction
Serial 1, the e-bike division of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, may have come up with a profitable new business model for selling e-bikes if they can repeat what happened today. Start with a stock model, hand it…
Serial 1 E-Bike Auction Breaches $14,000 with Seven Hours To Go
Looks like Serial 1 might be on to something with their custom e-bike auction. The bidding stands at over $14,000 and there are about 7 hours left to go. A stock Mosh/City model sells for…
Does Sex Still Sell? Get More Than A ’68 Yamaha From This Ebay Auction – UPDATED
I’ve got a compulsion for scanning Craigslist, Ebay and Bring A Trailer for vintage motorcycles from 1963 to 1972. I may actually buy another one someday (I’ve already got a shed filled with running-when-parked bikes) but…
Custom-Built Serial 1 E-Bike On Auction “For Display Purposes Only” – UPDATED
The Serial 1 custom-fabricated, one-of-a-kind Mosh/Chopper is an appealing e-bike that any kid would be stoked to ride to school. Heck, there are a lot of grown kids who would want to cruise on the…
E-Bike Dominates Rush-Hour Race
GeekWire recently conducted a rush-hour race through Seattle that pitted the most popular forms of urban transportation against each other. The only notable and puzzling omission from the starting grid participants was a motorcycle. Maybe…
Espin Doesn’t Practice What They Preach – UPDATED
UPDATED 8/5/21: The battery safety tips have been removed from the espin website and that's too bad. I wish I had made a copy of the article because it passed along valuable information. This happened…