May has been a good month for flat track racing in California with not one, but two American Flat Track events, beginning with the Calistoga Half-Mile on the 5th and culminating Saturday night with the Sacramento Mile.
Shortly after we dragged the gorgeously painted “Wicked Red and Twisted Cherry” Ultra out of the van here in Oakland, things got messy, Deepwater Horizon-style.
I caught a glimpse of Velomacchi's XSR700-based Rural Racer at the One Moto Show in Portland this past February. It was still a work in progress at the time, but...
Headsets have become an “essential” rider accessory, whether for rider-passenger chit-chat, bro-to-bro Gixxer jibber-jabber, music and turn-by-turn directions, or—ugh—vlogging. I...
In keeping with CityBike's role as the self-proclaimed Beavis and Butthead of motorcycle "journalism," I'm comfortable with us admitting we dig fire. Internal combustion fire, barbecue fire, torch fire, photo-op fire in front of the East Bay Rats clubhouse... fire is cool. Recall fire is cool (sort of) simply because we get to crack jokes about fire. Hell, we've been crackin' wise about KTM's flammable pajamas recall since 2015, much to the chagrin of people who think children potentially catching fire isn't funny (AKA the rest of the world).
