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Buckminn's to Jamestown via Maysville

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Length: 333.43km / 208.40mi

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Unbreakable: The Story of Onehandmade

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British Customs tells the amazing story of Queen Houng from Taipei, Taiwan

British Customs tells the story of Queen Houng of Onehandmade custom motorcycles in Taipei, Taiwan…
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Wiring and Electrical Repair for Motorcycles

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All it takes is some simple tools to do your basic wiring and electrical repair on your motorcycle, take a look at this how-to to help you make the connection.
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CMVA Wa St 4 Corners

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Length: 2,082.31km / 1,301.45mi

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Harley-Davidson Re-Evaluates Its Market Needs. Eliminates About 200 Positions At US Plants.

Harley is eliminating about 200 employees at its U.S. plants. “We continually evaluate industry and market changes to provide the best products and services to our customers. To that end, we are adjusting our production plan to align with our 2016 guidance and we are…

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Harley-Davidson Milwaukee Eight Bagger Walkaround

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Check out the new Ultra Limited Low and hear the Milwaukee Eight engine run!

Hear the new Milwaukee Eight engine in the 2017 Harley-Davidson Ultra Limited Low…
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Three Martini Lunch: ICON 1000’s mean green Thruxton

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
When the guys at ICON 1000 aren’t designing gear, they’re working on bikes. The customs that roll out of the Slabtown headquarters mix retro cues with future tech—a twisted cocktail that strangely works.

This Triumph Thruxton is the latest build from the Portland, Oregon crew, led by design director Kurt Walter. And it has one of the best names ever given to a custom: Three Martini Lunch.

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
It’s a 2014 model Hinckley twin, and it’s heavier on the retro cues than previous builds. But 3ML keeps the off-kilter styling and avoids the usual custom clichés with a chunky, hard-edged look that’s more mid-80s than Ace Cafe.

It’s a dissolute, half-faired homage to vintage road racers, and a sister bike to the Iron Lung Sportster from three years ago. Inspiration, believe it or not, came from a 1968 Pontiac Firebird.

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
The unusual paint—close to British Racing Green, but not quite—is Verdoro Green, a color used in the late 1960s By General Motors.

“The color was stolen from the only Pontiac that ever mattered, and applied to this English tart in a dank woodland garage,” we’re told.

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
Mechanically, there’s some seriously heavy-duty work going on. The engine is now a stressed member, since the lower part of the frame has been removed.

There are new brakes from EBC, and a custom single-sided swingarm suspended with a one-off Nitron shock. Right above are the exhaust cans, hiding under the tail unit, protected by a modified Panigale heat shield.

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
And then, of course, there are those 70s style heavily shouldered Kawasaki KZ1000 rims, shod with Avon rubber, but more on those later …

It was time to drop Kurt Walter a line, and dig into the details a little more.

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
Three Martini Lunch seems like a stylistic departure from previous ICON 1000 bikes. Should we be reading anything into that? The original project was a collaboration with Triumph North America, based on a 2014 Thruxton. We wanted to build a custom that would appeal to their core market, but maintaining the road-race styling and component cues of the ICON 1000 bikes.

Not to worry though—we’ll be straight back to apocalyptic 80s sportbikes soon enough.

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
Where did the name come from? We were going to use the name ‘Olive-Garde’ as a play on Avant-Garde, but painted in the Olive Garden typeface. Then we realized we’d probably get sued. So we started a roundtable brainstorming session, filled with shop-floor gin drinks and paint fumes …

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
Getting the KZ1000 wheels onto Harley forks and then onto the frame must have been a mission. Can you elaborate on the tech aspects of that? I’ve always loved the big-shouldered alloy KZ wheels. The biggest problem is that I wanted 16-inch wheels front and back. So we had to use a back wheel for the front fitment, which required welding-in the cush hub.

The width of the wheel required a Harley Wide Glide front end, which then required an extensive rework of the front fairing to clear the entire assembly.

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
Where did the fairing come from? It started life as an Airtech Ducati MH900E unit. We cut it up and made the filler panels that sit between it and the tank, which is a Yamaha FZ-600 unit.

The tank has been heavily modified on the bottom side to make room for the exhaust, which runs over the top of the motor. (Yes, it gets very hot.)

The tail section is a modified Airtech Harley road race unit, and the headlight is actually a cast aluminum fog light that they used to run on the logging trucks in the Northwest.

Three Martini Lunch: A mean green custom Triumph Thruxton from ICON 1000.
It’s a curiously intoxicating build, messing around with classic cafe racer lines just enough to create something new, without losing the thread. And of course, there’s a great little film to match.

Count us both shaken and stirred.

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Tips for Riding Two-Up

Double the pleasure, double the fun

So that special someone wants to ride on the back of your motorcycle, now you just need some simple tips to make riding two-up just a little more comfortable.
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S&S Cycle Goes Hooligan

Wether you are into Hooligan racing or just want more power for your Harley-Davidson Sportster, these new S&S Hooligan Kits will give you an edge on the competition or friends. It fits all Sportster models from 2000 to 216 and will take your Sporty 883 to 1200 cc or…

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Quick N’ Easy Bolt-On 2017 Milwaukee-Eight Custom Street Glide

Last August 23rd, while you were commenting on Harley-Davidson all-new Milwaukee-Eight motor, only the eighth big V-twin design in firm’s 102-year history, the Ness Crew was getting their hands on the brand new 2017 Street Glide with the objective to show you what you could…

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