Wheelers Blog & News

K-Tech Suspension has unveiled its first ever range of fork internals and rear shocks designed for the classic custom market, as well as Harley-Davidsons. With more than 20 years of experience working at the highest levels in the performance suspension marketplace, the firm’s team is making it easier for classic custom and Harley-Davidson owners to source high-quality, high-performance suspension parts. K-Tech Bullit shocksThe K-Tech Bullit is a new forged aluminum shock absorber...

I didn’t know anything about the H2 until the dealer meeting in 2012 when the Kawasaki  president came up to me and said he’d like me to come to Japan and give him my opinion on a project. I was flattered. I didn’t hear from him until November of 2013. So, on Thanksgiving Day 2013, while everyone was eating their dinner here in the States, my mechanic Coby Adams and I got to see two clay models of the Kawasaki H2. I had heard rumors of a supercharged engine before I got to Japan. But I...

Watching last January’s Superprestigio, I was struck by something I saw the motocross-based bikes doing only when they were upright on the so-called straightaway. They appeared to be bouncing, often rocking, on just the springiness of their 17-inch Michelin rain tires. I wondered at the time whether this was just a detail or if riders noticed it. The bouncing took place at about three or four cycles per second. If real, one thing this bouncing suggests is that the bikes are “hard topped”...

Isle of Man TT Press Release: British Superbike Championship front-runners GBmoto Racing will be undertaking a Kawasaki backed campaign on the ‘road’ circuits in 2015, with Isle of Man TT winner Gary Johnson. The team is building Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R race bikes in Superbike and Superstock specification to attack the Isle of Man TT Races as well as the North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix events. Following their debut season as an officially supported Kawasaki team in the MCE British...

Everybody’s favorite little pit bike, the Grom 125, is being recalled by Honda. Apparently, the 2014 Grom (and the 2014 Forza Scooter) has a fuel pump issue in which a resin bracket inside the pump swells and interferes with the impeller, causing the pump to stop working properly. Recalls began November 28. Here are the details from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Report Receipt Date: OCT 27, 2014NHTSA Campaign Number: 14V672000Component(s): Fuel system,...

Mr. Pawan Munjal, Vice Chairman, CEO and Managing Director of Hero MotoCorp is seen below with Mr. Woods on one of their motorcycles at the title sponsor’s four-day golf tournament for an elite 18-player field, ending this Sunday in Florida. The relationship between Hero and Woods is global, and not just limited to the US. What is more important for us in the US of A are the big ad dollars Hero recently spent last weekend during the Hero World Challenge golf tournament put on to support the...

Movie documentarians Bryan Carroll and James Walker have been selected as co-recepients for the American Motorcycle Association’s 2014 Motorcyclists of the Year award. Carroll and Walker directed and produced “Why We Ride,” a documentary that promotes modern motorcycling across every discipline. Producer/director Carroll and producer Walker created a film that is one of motorcycling’s great testimonials – a feature-length documentary about why we “dream, discover and explore” on two wheels....

Beta USA Press Release: Beta USA is ecstatic over the signing of Ty Cullins to their 2015 Offroad program. At 15 years old, Cullins already has years of experience in Trials under his belt which translates perfectly into EnduroCross. Cullins won the 125 Expert class in the NATC trials in 2014 and also won 3 times in the EnduroCross Open Amateur class. Cullins will join Morgan Tanke, Kyle Redmond, and Max Gerston in 2015 at the EnduroCross rounds and will also compete in the NATC trials in...

After racing our bone-stock 2014 Suzuki GSX-R600 project bike with Moto West Grand Prix last month, we became tempted by basic modifications that could give us an edge on the competition. What quick and cheap modifications could give our bike better drives out of the corners and reduce the gaps placed on us by the fully-built, highly-tuned race machines we were going up against on the race track? The added performance shouldn’t harm our daily commute on the street either… Suzuki...

krapovič is in the business of making high performance exhaust systems for motorcycles; they are not in the business of making motorcycles, usually. So what do you do? Put them on a rack on the wall like so many other vendors? Akrapovič decided to go a little further and while this is not the first time they have built a custom motorcycle to do it, their new bike is definitely going to cause some discussions. Let's get one thing out of the way up front. We get it this is impossible to...