The Kawasaki’s Vulcan 900 Custom offers aggressive style and progressive fun while ringing in the early days of customizing. With all the trappings of an expensive handmade ride, the Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Custom rolls in at a fraction of the cost while cruising the pavement with reliability and rideablity.

Powered by a fuel injected, 903cc engine, it feels like smaller-bike agility with big-bike design. Offering a healthy dose of torque at low rpm, the Vulcan powers on with a smooth reliable rubber mounted engine and gear-driven balance shaft that allows the use of a single –pin crankshaft without unwarranted vibration. The four-valve cylinder head provides maximum valve area for optimum flow, creating more power and low-end torque. Long intake tracts narrow near the combustion chamber to increase intake flow speed for more efficient filling, increased torque and better low-end response.

Liquid and air-cooling maintains consistent engine temperatures. Finned cylinders and heads combined with an automatic fan helps keep things cool even at low speeds.

With a fuel capacity of 5.3 gallons the fuel tank features a twin valley design and continues to the rear fender with the bottom of the rear fender featuring a relatively straight cut, intended to balance the lines of the motorcycle. A small minimalist fender and lack of front fork covers contribute to the slender appearance of the front end along with a straight-style handlebar

Designed with twin tubes curving back from the upper triple clamp.

The fork offset and frame geometry is dialed in to handle well with a wheelbase of 64.8”, seat height of 27” and curb weight 610.8 lbs.

The triangular swingarm has a hardtail appearance, but utilizes a single shock hidden beneath the seat. The front 21-inch cast wheel has spokes arranged in pairs, which are tapered and flanged in two directions. A 180mm rear tire provides added stability and styling, while braking is handled with a 300mm front and 270mm rear disc, both gripped by twin-piston calipers providing some darn good stopping power for bikes in its class

Big slash cut mufflers contain emission reducing honeycomb catalyzers, the positive neutral finder makes finding neutral easy and the fuel-injected v-twin is smooth with minimum vibrations.

From $8699.00 - $8999.00 MSRP the Vulcan 900 Custom weighs in at a fraction of the other cruisers, yet provides miles of smiles in big bike design.

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Brenda Fox

The Harley-Davidson Seventy-Two motorcycle is a metal flake Sportster with a '70s chopper attitude meeting modern power and premium H-D styling.  A lowrider-inspired radical custom, Frank Savage, Harley-Davidson Manager of Industrial Design explains, "In creating the Seventy-Two, we were inspired by the vibe of the early chopper era., Those bikes were colorful and chromed, but also narrow and stripped down to the essentials. You look at period examples and they are almost as simple as a bicycle. It's a custom style that's very particular to America and that California scene."

Metal flake, an iconic design element of the '70s, appeared in everything from dune buggy gel coat to vinyl diner upholstery, and on custom motorcycles. Harley-Davidson brings the sparkle back on the Seventy-Two with Hard Candy Big Red Flake paint. This new finish is created by applying a black base coat, followed by a polyurethane system that carries hexagon-shaped flakes that are more than seven times the diameter of metal flake used in typical production paint. Each flake is coated with a thin aluminum film and then tinted red. Four applications of clear coat, combined with hand sanding, create a smooth finish over the flakes.

"The final touch to the Hard Candy Big Red Flake paint is a logo on the tank top and pinstripe scallop details on both fenders," says Savage. "Each was originally created by hand, and we recreated that art in a decal for production, so they still have the appearance of hand-applied graphics in that they are not exactly perfect. The graphics are then covered with a final clear coat application."

A solo seat and side-mounted license plate bracket leave much of the chopped rear fender – and more of that paint – exposed on the Seventy-Two. The powertrain is finished in Gray powdercoat with chrome covers and a new round air cleaner with a dished cover. A classic Sportster 2.1-gallon "peanut" fuel tank adds a final period touch to the motorcycle.

Key features of the 2012 Harley-Davidson Seventy-Two include:
Air-cooled Evolution 1200cc V-Twin engine with Electronic Sequential Port Fuel Injection (ESPFI), rated at 73 ft. lbs. peak torque at 3500 rpm.
Powertrain is finished in Gray powdercoat with Chrome covers.
Paint color choices include Hard Candy Big Red Flake with period pinstripe details on fenders and fuel tank, Black Denim, and Big Blue Pearl.
Classic 2.1-gallon peanut fuel tank.
Dunlop white side wall 21-inch (MH90-21) front and 16-inch (150/80B16) rear tires.
Chrome Laced wheels.
Ten-inch mini-ape handlebar mounted on a two-inch high riser.
Chrome, eight-inch round air cleaner cover with center screw mount.
Chopped rear fender exposes rear tire.
Side-mounted license plate bracket.
Chrome, staggered, shorty dual exhaust with slash-cut mufflers.
Solo seat with black textured vinyl cover.
Handlebar-mounted speedometer with chrome cup.
Chrome rear fender struts.
Chrome coil-over pre-load adjustable rear shocks.
Forward foot controls.

For more information: www.harley-davidson.com

The Sacred low is Icon’s offering of minimalist motorcycling footwear and I have to say they hit the nail on the head. Like a clean custom bike with no added “do –dads” they reduced this style to the bare essentials of functional details.

It’s lean and sleek with a flat bottom unit to provide a stable platform when on your bike. An alloy heel plate is integrated for protection and also sets the boot apart as a motorcycle specific boot, not a fashion boot. It features a 6 top grain leather upper, low profile Icon outsole, custom molded metal heel plate, Axialmetric steel shank, molded rubber shifter nubs, YKK autolock zippers.

In going over the features I pondered the word “Axialmetric” … what the hell is that?

I went to the source and was informed the shank is located in the bottom of the boot for support when the boot is on a motorcycle peg (so it doesn't fold in half like a sneaker). Axialmetric is Icon’s name for the shape and style of the otherwise normally called 'steal shank' which sounded like some kind of prison weapon, so we’ll stick with Axialmetric and the appreciation of having the support incorporated in the boot.

I love being able to go right the source and pester them with my annoying questions that leads to good bits of information that I wouldn’t have known..

The pro’s at Icon brought up a very good point and told me “One of the things we want to make sure of with our footwear is it stays on if there is an accident. Watch street motorcycle crashes on YouTube and you'll notice anyone not wearing motorcycle specific footwear immediately loses their shoes. Tight fit, retention straps or buckles are all part of the equation that equals protection and looking good. Trying to live your life with banged up feet is REALLY difficult. It's amazing how many people will wear gloves and a helmet but neglect their feet!” Good point!

I find they fit pretty much true to size. They’re stiff, protection stiff! The kind of boots that work in overtime and fit like a glove. A bit narrow at the front of the boot due to the design/construction. I’m regular width and find the ball of the foot area snug to tight and the vibe that they would break in and fit perfect. The svelte styling allows for good contact and ability to connect when shifting and braking, love that!

Available in black or brown.  $120.00 Suggested Retail.

Keep your 10 toes! Invest in your protection! 

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Brenda Fox 

  Only motorcyclists understand how getting out on the open road can be the best medicine.         Call the "Doctor"  I need a Ducati for my health! 

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 B Fox

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