Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine - December 2003

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VALKYRIES IN THE MIST
Valkyries, Volcanoes and Valhalla
   Saturday, June 21: The Summer Solstice. The first day of summer and it was a typical Oregon June day: rainy. Ordinarily the inclement weather would be an excuse to avoid my mounting list of homeowner projects and perhaps just stretch out on the couch to watch sports reruns on ESPN. However, for some reason it sounded good to take a ride today despite the on-and-off-again rain. When my buddy Eric called me that morning with the same idea and wanted to know if I was interested in joining him for a spin, I seized the opportunity. Little did either of us know what a strange trip lay ahead....

CycleWorld Magazine - June 1999

                                   
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Retro Riot!
Triple Baggers
A trio of retro-rigs heads out on the highway
H-D Electra Glide, Honda Interstate, Yamaha Venture
   If you like motorcycles and the open road, Man, do you have options. Among them, the three bikes pictured here. Call them retro-rigs, call them nostalgia-tourers, call them whatever you want. these machines are designed to go the distance - long legs for the style conscious... 

 

Motorcycle Consumer News - March 1999

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TOURING CRUISERS
Baggers To Badwater
   Throw a leg over a "great" cruiser for a long weekend and you're sure to decide that there's more to motorcycling than piloting the latest red-hot sportbike through challenging curves....
   But exactly what makes a great cruiser isn't so easy to define as the ingrediants that make a great sportbike. Maxium performance has a certain cold logic that appeals to factory engineers. Cruisers, on the other hand, need to do more than just go, turn and stop. Elusive considerations like "look" and "feel" are most important to the consumer, and both are outside the rational discipline of engineering. Harley-Davidson's unprecedented popularity is clearly hard to fathom from a technological point of view...

On Any Sunday (1971)

                                  

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   Mention the name Bruce Brown in any crowd, and someone will reply: "He's the reason I ride."
   Featuring Steve McQueen with music by the famed Dominic Frontiere, this is without a doubt the quintessential motorcycle film.....
                             

                        
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1998 Honda Valkyrie

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1998 Honda Valkyrie
   As Japanese manufacturers rushed to bring out cruiser models in the 1980's, Honda was in the thick of things with it's V-twin Shadows. During the Nineties, these cruisers grew in displacement and sophistication, but Honda trumped them all with the 1997 introduction of the Valkyrie...

Motorcycle Consumer News - June 1996

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First Impression
1997 Honda Valkyrie
   At the time of writing this, I have probably spent more time in the saddle of the new Valkyrie than anyone else in the world, except for maybe a couple of R&D guys at Honda....

Motorcycle Consumer News - November 1996

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Valkyrie on Tour
   The world's first fully accessorized Honda F6 tackles a trailer and a 4000-mile endurance test through the mountains and deserts of California....