Jimmy Mac Digs Through The Scrapbook
Looking through scrapbooks is sure fun. Fishkill, New York, in 1971. My brother Gerry is sitting next to me on the borrowed Foreign Car Clinic VW bus. Don't remember the track or year. Photo was…
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Fire kills Four At E-bike/Scooter/Moped Store
Spectrum News NY 1 reports that four people died and two others were critically hurt after a fire broke out inside an e-bike shop housed on the ground floor of a Lower East Side apartment…
70-Year-Old Zundapp Super Sabre Running When Parked
This bike turns 70 this year just like me! It hasn’t run since 1973. Those are impressive numbers for a Running When Parked. I don’t need to give buying advice. If this is the missing…
Nireeka Mega 38-Mile-Per-Hour Top Speed Mountain Bike Actually A Really Slow Motorcycle
I hate to break it to backers of the Indiegogo-offered Nireeka Mega, but they are not investing in an electric-powered mountain bike. Sure, it uses bicycle components from its wheels to its handlebar grips. And…
Are E-Bikes Too Fast For Hiking Trails?
Four major user groups share unpaved recreation trails designated for non-motorized use; hikers, trail runners, equestrians and mountain bikers. A change in California law (that other states may adopt) has permitted electric-motorized bikes access to…
Bicycle Racing Makes The Main-Stream Media
I joked last year right after the Tour de France that as far as the general public was concerned, bicycle racing was over for the year and wouldn’t begin again until the first stage of…
Super-Amazing Sunday 147 Flat Track Minicycle Up For Grabs
Here's the story. I bought this little beauty at The One Motorcycle Show in Portland and imagined finding someone with a dirt oval close to my home where I could slide it until the cows…
Mother And Son Die In Fire Sparked By E-Bike
The e-bike industry and its trade associations often downplay the occurrence of e-bike fires, even going as far as pointing fingers at other industries. They use phrases like "a runaway thermal event" to describe what…
Cool Motorcycle Shops: Visiting Oregon’s MotoSport Hillsboro
Car dealerships all feel kinda the same to me. Walk into a Ford dealership in Boston and chances are it’s gonna feel and look pretty much like the Ford dealership in Barstow. Not so with…
The One Motorcycle Show’s 21 Helmets Showcase Names Winner
The One Motorcycle Show is like a three-ring circus. Wait, I take that back. It is like a 50-ring circus. You got the bikes, the cars, the bands, the artists, the food, the demos, the…