Monday, July 28, 2014

Why We Ride - The Movie

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 Found this on the web and just had to embed it here. Just click on the link above. Will open the movie in another tab and movie will automatically begin playing. Turn up your sound and click full screen mode. Sit back and enjoy.
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Why We Ride - The Movie

EVERYONE HAS A REASON
   An inspiring celebration of the motorcycling community, Why We Ride is a documentary film that shares the passion of motorcycle riding and shows the comaraderie of the friends and families who ride together. As told by the many racers, riders, pioneers, and parents in the sport, the story weaves it's way through generations of motorcyclists who live each day to the fullest on their two-wheeled machines. The refreshing message about the joys of motorcycling, coupled with state of the art photography, capture the imagination and set the soul in motion.
   Why We Ride is a story about who we are. Individuals with a desire to dream, discover and explore. Seeking a life outside our daily confinements and sharing those moments together. It’s a story about the journey, not the destination. Motorcycles represent the milestones of our lives. From a kid’s dream come true, to a retiree’s return to freedom. From a family riding together on the sand dunes, to hundreds of choppers carving through the canyons – the bond is the same. It’s about the passion of the riders and the soul of their machines.

   "This film may become as well known as “On Any Sunday,” the quintessential motorcycle documentary everyone loves.  The difference between them is instead of focusing on motorcycle competition, this film is about the motorcycle rider, the rider’s relationship to the machine, other riders, and the experience that is being a motorcycle rider."      .......T. C.


Sunday, July 27, 2014

Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine - Premier Issue -Spring 1996


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FIRST RIDE: HONDA VALKYRIE
Gold Wing With an Attitude
   It's almost here. Back in July of 1994, Motorcyclist printed an unauthorized photo of a Gold Wing-based cruiser, which Honda said was just a concept bike to test customer reaction. However, when Honda got word about Yahama's Royal Star, the rumor suddenly became real steel. Honda named it the Valkyrie, and it will arrive this spring as a 1997 model...


Saturday, July 26, 2014

TwoWheels Magazine - March 1997 - (AU)


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A very American motorcycle
   Forget Wagner, this ride of the Valkyrie owes much more to John Phillip Sousa or Carl Perkins.


Ride Magazine - November 1996


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FIRST RIDES:
Space station-sized Honda Valkyrie lands on Earth. We make contact.
   Five minutes after picking up the Valkyrie, I rode into the heaviest thunderstorm this side of a horror film: thunder, lighting and the kind of wind that usually sets you down on a yellow brick road...
   Did I care? Nope, not at all. I spent the whole journey giggling like a schoolboy and whistling Born To Be Wild to myself.


Friday, July 25, 2014

Motorcycle Sport and Leisure Magazine - July 1996


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First Aquaintance: Here comes the Valkyrie
   What do you call a motorcycle that's 38 inches across the bars and more than 8 feet long? The Valkyrie. That's what! Made in Honda's Marysville Ohio factory in the US of A, and powered by a tuned version of the highly acclaimed 1520cc, flat-six Gold Wing motor, that first came to the UK in 1988, the Valkyrie weighs in at 310kg (682lbs) and looks simply stunning. On paper, it outpoints all it's competitors by a huge margin but is it, as Honda claim, poised to take on the mantle of the "baddest bike on the boulevard"?


Thursday, July 24, 2014

Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine - August 2000


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SPEED THRILLS
A 202 horsepower Valkyrie? Pass the laughing gas please
   WHAT DOES IT TAKE to make your heart pound? To make your toes tingle and your belly quake? For our ancestors it was lions, tigers and barbarity. Adrenaline was all about saving your ass. Nowadays a metabolic rush is more commonly a self-induced amusement--a tool used to heighten one's own sense of existence. It could be a run with the bulls, a ride on a roller coaster or jumping spread eagle from 15,000 feet. Or it could be ripping down the dragstrip on a nitrous-sucking Valkyrie...

Wednesday, July 23, 2014