Motorcycle Jacket Review

I'm already familiar with the Joe Rocket Phoenix motorcycle jacket. I had one of the original gray ones, and I can tell you that what it lacked in style it made up for functionally.

I successfully crash-tested that original jacket, so I bought a red and black version the following year.

Streaming Podcast Links

The Motorcycle Radio Network is the only motorcycle radio show of its kind that focuses on all aspects of the American motorcycle culture. The Motorcycle Radio Network (MRN) is broadcast over 60 radio stations across America every week. 

Motorcycle Podcast

Call this one a promise kept. This week on the Motorcycle Radio Network, it is the long awaited ‘Real-Time' Road Test of the new 2010 Harley-Davidson Sportster Forty-Eight.

Weekly Podcast

On the Motorcycle Radio Network this week we have a 'Real-Time' Road Test of the iconic 2010 Moto Guzzi V7 Classic. We put our Italians on this Italian and it makes a great test!

Motorcycle Podcast

A 'Real-Time' Track Test of a motocross bike on the Motorcycle Radio Network? Mike worked the censors overtime after the revolutionary 2010 Yamaha YZ450F rocked his world!

OK, so crazy Mike from UltimateMotorCycling.com has done quarter mile passes, mile-long wheelies and even jumped buses on the Motorcycle Radio Network.

Motorcycle Podcast

Who needs the Smithsonian? When it comes to motorcycles, we have the Wheels Through Time Museum on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

We have had a lot of great shows here on the Motorcycle Radio Network, but this week's show will definitely go down in history as one of Bill and Todd's favorites.

Suzuki TU250X Podcast

This week on the Motorcycle Radio Network, we address listener concerns about the lack of a good all-around motorcycle for new riders to begin their street riding careers on, that happens to get 82 mpg.

Incentives Podcast

In the late 1970's and early ‘80's, motorcycle manufacturers noticed an alarming trend in the United States. Sales were falling dramatically, so they shortened their product development cycles and brought out many new models, each released with the same fanfare as previous successful launches.

Bonneville Podcast

This week the Blockhead Boys are transported back to a time where motorcycles were made to go anywhere you cared to ride them - we test the new 2010 Triumph Bonneville T100.

Barbarians by the Bikes

The snowbanks have melted here in the northeast, Daylight Savings Time has begun, and the black leather crowd is dragging their Harley-Davidson motorcycles from their winter storage. I have yet to see a robin, but it is mid-March and it looks like a typical spring in upstate New York.

Weekly Podcast

Aprilia's spectacular new RSV4 Factory has been described in superlative after superlative. Bill and Todd B enlist the help of Ultimate MotorCycling to see if the hype about this new WSBK-winning superbike is real.

Warmer Rides

Last fall I was coming out of the Square Deal Riders Raceway in Port Crane, NY after the Aaron Creamer Memorial flat track races. The races finished just a hair before the midnight curfew, so it was late, damp, and the temperature had dipped down into the low 50s-pretty much what you'd expect for upstate New York in late September.