Motorcycle Books

Steve McQueen's brand of cool has no expiration date. Thirty years after the star's death, McQueen's steely charisma still holds our attention.

1942 Indian Sport Scout

It is an early summer morning and I'm an hour north of Los Angeles, sliding down the Conejo Grade towards Camarillo. The usually sunny coastal town is buried under a gloomy sheet metal sky-a downpour looks imminent. In the movies, this would read as grim foreshadowing.

Harley 48 Review

The Bar and Shield suffered its quota of slings and arrows in 2009. Apart from the flaccid economy and stingy credit markets that have vexed the industry at large, Harley-Davidson is witnessing its baby boomer target demo age and dismount in disheartening numbers.

Motorcycle Touring

Recently, after laboring on a number of overlapping projects into what should have been an afterlife, I heard the dull but unmistakable click of a circuit breaker trip in my head. This warning sound usually occurs when weekends have become a dim memory and my lawn dies.

Dirico Motorcycles

You are motorcycling down an idyllic New England back road, meditating on the autumnal glories of the countryside's transformation from supple verdure to crackling burnt sienna, when a booming cannonade sends chickadees exploding from the birch groves.

FXDFSE2 CVO Review

The 2010 Harley-Davidson CVO Fat Bob punches up the aristocratic proceedings with a little disorderly conduct, returning for its second year with a badass new wardrobe.

FLHXSE CVO Review

Fronted by the familiar batwing fairing and girded by the newly redesigned FL chassis, the stylishly slammed 2010 Harley-Davidson CVO Street Glide boasts all the muscular agility of an NBA power forward and flashes more chrome than Dennis Rodman.

Screamin' Eagle Motorcycles

Each year, the shop-shirted covert agents at Harley-Davidson's exclusive Custom Vehicle Operations (CVO) pluck four models from the Harley-Davidson lineup and, utilizing an arsenal of Screamin' Eagle performance parts, exclusive paint schemes, and enough chrome to induce pangs of inadequacy in a '57 Bel Air, recasts them into rarified road-ravaging, lust-inducing examples of what a customer might create with a little imagination and a sizable slush fund.

Motorcycles of Hollywood

The motorcycle's celluloid history dates back to the silent era. From Edgar Dearing's familiar role as a motorcycle cop/foil in Laurel and Hardy shorts to Gael Garcia Bernal as a road-tripping Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Dairies and beyond, screen bikes are as iconic as the characters who ride them.

FLHTCUSE5 CVO Review

The enduring Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic Electra Glide asks the question, "What do you get the bike that has everything?" Already stuffed to the topcase with amenities, the 2010 Harley-Davidson CVO Ultra Classic Electra Glide finds room for a few more, like the wraparound LED Brake/taillight bar and the lambent LED pods mounted in the saddlebags.

FLSTSE CVO Review

The brand-new 2010 Harley-Davidson Softail Convertible unseats the classically styled Springer as the Softail platform's CVO representative. A kind of high-functioning multiple personality disorder with turn signals, the Convertible's conceit is both simple and shrewd.

High-Tech Classic

After a six-year leave from the highway, Kawasaki is reentering the full-dress touring market with the technologically forward, nostalgically styled, 2009 Voyager. Kawasaki is touting their new Vulcan 1700 series as a bellwether for the company's future in the cruiser segment, and the reimagined Voyager has been commissioned as their cruise line's luxe flagship.