According to the rally pins I collect each time I go, the last Daytona Bike Week I attended was in 2002. Other than the fact that there was more attention paid to women riders – yea! to the Harley womens parade – and more trikes on the road, the rally looked pretty much the same to me.
One of the biggest questions for new riders is, “What is the right bike for me?” For the lucky, a motorcycle will fit coming off the showroom floor, but for others, it takes modifications for height, style and performance to create the right combination of comfort and function.
Modifying a Motorcycle to Fit You
WRNs Backroads with Betsy columnist, Betsy Huelskamp, is one of several celebrity guests participating in the 1st Annual Broc Glovers Breathe Easy Ride Against Cystic Fibrosis. On Sunday, March 30, 2008, motorcycling enthusiasts will ride alongside a host of racing greats and other motorcycling personalities in this fun street ride to benefit a great cause.
Four women are finding that achieving the right fit elevates how they feel about their ride.
READERS RIDES: A Perfect Love Affair
When temperatures rise, I want to roll my motorcycle out of the garage and go for a long ride. Then I remind myself that cruising off without giving my bike a mechanical check-up isnt safe.
Prepping Your Motorcycle for Summer
With spring around the corner and thermometers rising, riders living in winter states are readying themselves and their motorcycle for the first ride of the season. Before rolling the motorcycle out of the garage, there are some important items to check to ensure the first ride is a safe one.
Prepping Your Motorcycle for Summer
In five days, I canvassed Daytona Bike Week looking for things that caught my eye and testing new products and motorcycles for future stories on WRN. Armed with a still camera as well as a video camera, here are a few highlights of what I saw, including a teaser of stories to come on WRN.
Daytona Bike Week 2008: Whats there for women
The Harley-Davidson CVO program creates limited edition, exclusive motorcycles produced by teams of technicians in a special assembly area at the Harley-Davidson plants in York, Pa., and Kansas City. Each year several of the regular models are chosen to go through the CVO treatment. These custom bikes feature a Twin Cam 110, the largest displacement production engine offered by Harley. Image shown in the Screamin Eagle Softail Springer.
Custom Vehicle Operations (CVO)
To celebrate the increase in women riding their own motorcycles, Harley-Davidson organized a womens parade taking place during Daytona Bike Week 2008. The parade was the culmination of the “Get Down to Daytona” contest where six winners submitted videos talking about their riding mentors. WRNs Genevieve Schmitt was there covering the event.
Largest Harley Womens Parade Ever
Hundreds of Harley-Davidson women riders joined together in Daytona Beach, Fla., for one of the largest Harley-Davidson womens rides in history. Originally, the Harley-Davidson Womens Day Ride benefiting Muscular Dystrophy Association was to be limited to 105 women, but after an incredible response from women riders asking to join the ride, Harley-Davidson decided to increase the size to accommodate the large demand.
Hundreds of Women Ride in Daytona Harley Parade