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While most of the feedback about our move to a quarterly schedule has been positive, we, like you (based on your feedback), find the break between the last 2018 issue and the first of 2019 long. Hopefully you kept busy on cycleworld.com finding out a

What if you held a retro party… and nobody came? In 2019, that’s very close to being a ridiculous question. Right now, the retro party is in full swing and everybody from BMW to Yamaha has slipped a ’70s-style dress over their modern-as-tomorrow unde

Single-shock rear suspensions are near-universal today. Traditional twin-shock setups are still seen, but exist mainly for reasons of retro style. When the era of longer rear-suspension travel arrived in 1974, it made the best sense to implement it w

As climate warmed at the end of the last ice age, and as humans hunted out the large Pleistocene animals whose meat had sustained them, a new way of life was forced upon those who inhabited the Middle East some 10,000 years ago. To stay alive through

On January 6, 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the State of the Union Address citing four essential freedoms. Each point was punctuated with “everywhere” or “anywhere in the world.” While these four have to do with basic human rights, as I gazed

Is it strange that the Baja 1000 was first conquered by the 1962 Honda CL72, a 250cc twin scrambler also known as a Dream? It wasn’t much of a dirt bike, but then again nothing built back then was. But Triumph racing legend Bud Ekins suggested riding

It’s true that MotoGP represents the sport’s premier stage, with prototype works machines that showcase the pinnacle of two-wheeled performance, but production-based superbike competition is the conduit through which cutting-edge innovation translate

Mike Tyson understood how the human brain works. When the lethal second half of the former world heavyweight boxing champion’s trademark combination—right hook to the body, right uppercut to the jaw—hit home, the powerful punch often rendered the rec

In times past, a walk along Daytona’s pit lane during practice was a feast for the eyes, and one of the major attractions was the light-weight magnesium parts on factory bikes. My own home-built Kawasaki H2-R 750 had only the prosaic gray cast-alumin

Some 20 years ago I “met” Bob Nichols on the phone. He was making up lightweight connecting rods for his prewar Indian Scout and wanted to discuss alternative designs. We found lots to talk about, and he sounded excited about his project and eager to