MC M.C.

Dirt Rider magazine recently hosted a Ride Day at Glen Helen Raceway in San Bernardino, California. It was a nice break from the office, and a good opportunity for dirt virgins like our web producer, Annette Carrion (shown here rocking James Stewart's #7), to learn to ride dirtbikes with expert ...    Read more

AMA Hall of Fame dirt-track tuner Bill Werner had something special to show us at the Steel Shoe Fund endurance ice race: his 1976 Motorcyclist Magazine All Star Award, complete with commemorative jacket patch. Werner was recognized for winning that year’s AMA Grand National Championship—the first of three consecutive ...    Read more

Recently recovered from the bottom drawer of a dusty, overstuffed filing cabinet, this artifact from 1990 offers tangible proof of a grotesque ritual humiliation visited upon each member of the Motorcyclist staff on his or her birthday. After luring innocent editors across Sunset Boulevard with the promise of a Carneys ...    Read more

Photo: Nicky Hayden Speaking of Nicky Hayden, guess who shot this photo at the Ducati 1199 Panigale intro and fashion show atop the W Hotel in Hollywood? “Ducati don’t throw no amateur parties,” read Nicky’s (@NickyHayden69) Twitter post. Rather than recognizing the caliber of the soirée, responders inquired whether that ...    Read more

When the AMA Supercross series rolled into Anaheim, California, this past January, motocross kids Derek Stein and Jack Phreaner lucked into pit passes that they wielded to gain access to Women's champ Ashley Fiolek. “She was really nice, and I have never seen anyone text that fast!” Derek reports. Yamaha’s ...    Read more

How many bikes is too many? Contributor John L. Stein draws the line at 23, which meant bike number 24, a dilapidated 1981 Kawasaki AR50, needed a new home. The addition of the AR brings Ari Henning’s collection of 50cc two-stroke streetbikes to three—three too many, according to his neighbors ...    Read more

Motorcyclist turns 100 this year, and as part of our ongoing celebration we erected a special booth at the Indianapolis Dealer Expo. The Lloyd Brothers Ducati AMA flat-tracker, a 1956 Harley-Davidson KRTT and a 1930 Indian Scout were on display, as well as our “A Century of Motorcycling” exhibit that’s ...    Read more

Photo: Kevin Wing This month Motorcyclist says goodbye to its longtime publisher, Marty Estes. A devout off-road rider, Marty served as publisher of Source Interlink Media’s street titles for six years, and also contributed to the magazine with updates on his long-term testbikes and the occasional feature or product review. We ...    Read more

Photo: Wes Drelleshak Source Interlink Media Tech Center Manager Grant Peterson primarily works on project cars for Hot Rod and Car Craft magazines, so don’t tell them that he digs bikes more than cars! Co-producer of the annual “Born Free” biker rally, Grant has a collection of vintage Harley-Davidson customs ...    Read more

When Rush drummer/lyricist Neil Peart invited Editor Catterson to ride with him from Vancouver, Canada, to Seattle, Washington, on last summer’s Time Machine tour, Cat went ahead and booked round-trip airline tickets. But surprise, surprise: Seeing as how the latter show was the last of the tour, Neil invited ...    Read more

Photo: Kevin Wing RawHyde Adventures has come a long way since the first time we visited their Castaic, California, headquarters. Take the evolutionary progression of BMW GS Boxers in the clubhouse, for example, including Tim Carrithers’ sentimental favorite, the R100GS Paris-Dakar. A similar example tried to drive our man into ...    Read more

Photo: Aaron Frank No, we didn’t mix up photos for Fashion Police with MC M.C. Aaron Frank’s father Terry is actually perfectly dressed for riding his studded-tire Honda CB750 across a frozen lake. Meanwhile, with able assistance from Kawasaki, Aaron arranged for legendary dirt-track tuner Bill Werner to build a ...    Read more

Kawasaki Motors Corp. USA in Irvine, California, held its annual pep rally a few days before the 2012 Monster Energy AMA Supercross season opener at Angels Stadium in Anaheim this past January. Open exclusively to employees, friends, family and select members of the media, the event gave guests the ...    Read more

Photo: Kevin Wing Before unleashing editors on Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s drag strip aboard the nearly-200-bhp ZX-14R for this month’s cover story, Kawasaki arranged for its staff strip savant, 9-times World Champion Rickey Gadson, to give the keyboard jockeys expert instruction. Even with Gadson’s one-on-one coaching—“Clutch out! Clutch out! CLUTCH-ALL-THE-WAY-OUT, then ...    Read more

Photo: John L. Stein What does the man who has everything get himself for Christmas? How about a sweet 1955 Matchless G80S to join the Manx Norton, Ducati Imola racer and fleet of vintage Yamaha and Ossa motocrossers in his garage? Contributing Editor John L. Stein’s middle initial must stand for ...    Read more

Photography by Tim Carrithers That antique exhaust note heard rumbling into the Westlake Inn Parking lot for the recent Dunlop RoadSmart II press intro turned out to be none other than Motorcyclist photo model, guest tester and all-around good guy Thad Wolff on his nearly restored and completely functional 1920 Harley-Davidson ...    Read more

Photo: Tim Carrithers Mindful of Can-Am’s valiant efforts to broaden our in-the-wind experience beyond a traditional two-wheel audience, we gave Angus Carrithers a shot at the latest Spyder RSS in search of a canine perspective. While the lack of opposable thumbs and a valid California driver’s license confined the 5-month-old (nearly ...    Read more

Photo: Progressive Insurance We always kid Managing Editor Andreanna Ditton about looking like Flo from the Progressive Insurance commercials, and at the Long Beach Show the two of them got together for a little virtual ride. No surprise, when they pulled their helmets off, they both had perfect hair!

Photo: Andrea Wilson It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it. When Victory gave select members of the motorcycle media 75 minutes to do something with its new Hard Ball “naked bagger” following the bike’s debut at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show in Long Beach, ...    Read more

You know her as the Fashion Police, and we know her as our Web Producer, but MotoGP stars know her as that scary girl from the magazine that always wants to get her picture taken with them: (left to right) Nicky Hayden, Ben Spies and Cal Crutchlow. Yup, Annette stalking ...    Read more

Here they (meaning we) are: the members of this here tongue-in-cheek motorcycle club (a.k.a. the Motorcyclist staff), all in one place at one time. When the Progressive International Motorcycle Show made its annual appearance in Long Beach, California, this past December, we were out in (almost) full force to man ...    Read more

Photo: Marco Morittu Marco Simoncelli was as thoughtful off a MotoGP bike as he was ferocious on it. As it turns out, the 47th life claimed by Grand Prix motorcycle roadracing began in the coastal Italian town of Cattolica, in the same hospital that my youngest son, Chris, was born. Except ...    Read more