Issue 1 - 2018

Cycle World

Cycle World magazine gives you information and reviews about motorcycles and the various types of riding.

Cycle World4 min readAutomotive
Art For Our Sake
By KEVIN CAMERON An important difference between motorcycles and cars is that while cars enclose their mechanism, motorcycles reveal theirs, presenting a wealth of eye-attracting visual elements. Parts and assemblies that come into being for purely f
Cycle World4 min readConstruction
Titanium
By KEVIN CAMERON Photography by DREW RUIZ Metals are a river that flows through our history. Bronze Age horsemen from Asia’s steppe brought the mysterious stuff to the near-eastern “Cradles of Civilization.” Gold and silver drove Spanish New World ex
Cycle World4 min readAutomotive
Naked And Unafraid
By JACK BARUTH Photography by BRIAN BLADES The mark of a truly brilliant idea is that it appears both inevitable and slightly unremarkable in retrospect, which is the reason any benchracer or armchair expert can easily tell you why the first-generati
Cycle World6 min readAutomotive
The King Is Dead, Long Live The King
By ZACK COURTS Photography By MILAGRO When Ducati management stood up and proclaimed that the new Panigale V-4 was the “closest bike in the segment to a MotoGP machine,” there were probably a few sets of eyes rolling around the room. This is common r
Cycle World4 min read
Spark Of Life
By STEVE ANDERSON Photography by JEFF ALLEN “Be it known that I, Nikola Tesla, a citizen of the United States…have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrical Igniters for Gas-Engines….” So begins the 1898 patent granted to Tesla for a
Cycle World2 min read
New World
By MARK HOYER During the early 1960s, Joe Parkhurst reacted to the state of motorcycle publishing and the market. Cycle World published its first issue in January 1962. Within a decade, Joe, who’d hocked everything and made the first issue on his kit
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The PENINSULA Of The ABSURD
By ZACH BOWMAN Photography by JEFF ALLEN We had to be here. Had to load up the van and shuck south across the border because this is the 50th anniversary of the Baja 1000. No matter how many times you’ve looped “Dust to Glory” or “On Any Sunday” in t
Cycle World6 min read
BEAST Of Bologna
By KEVIN CAMERON Photography by DOUGLAS MACRAE Despite the obvious reason for this story’s title, I chose it for the Panigale V-4’s parallel with Fiat’s 28-liter S.76 racing car of 1910—the 300 hp “Beast of Turin.” Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta said a f
Cycle World4 min read
A Line In The Sand
By MARK LINDEMANN Photography by CYCLE WORLD ARCHIVES; EKINS COLLECTION Every religion has its icons, its holy grails. Often the legends are so powerful that just a word or two conjures the magic. Sometimes it’s a place: You go there to prove yoursel
Cycle World6 min read
Porcupine
By KEVIN CAMERON Photography by DOUGLAS MACRAE Here in all its dark, fluid grace is the AJS Porcupine, a parallel-twin that was England’s postwar bid to rise above the limited power of traditional British racing singles with more cylinders and higher
Cycle World5 min readAutomotive
Get Lost
Story and photography by BARRY HATHAWAY Back in 1849, the forgotten soul who gave Death Valley its name escaped that godforsaken desert with fewer men in his party than he started with. In the years since, infernal heat and scarce water have killed q
Cycle World2 min read
PROTECT & SERVE
By MARK HOYER Photography by DREW RUIZ D3O really does call the base material used in its armor “orange goo,” but that’s mostly because those of us who are not scientists or engineers glaze over when we hear “dilatants are a non-Newtonian fluid.” But
Cycle World4 min read
Bill Werner
By KEVIN CAMERON Photography by SAVERIO TRUGLIA With giant riding talents Gary Scott, Jay Springsteen, and Scott Parker (remember people calling him “the Parker kid?”), Harley-Davidson factory mechanic Bill Werner orchestrated 13 AMA Grand National d
Cycle World3 min read
Claudio Domenicali
By KEVIN CAMERON Photography by DUCATI During his 26 years at Ducati, Claudio Domenicali—who received his mechanical-engineering degree from the University of Bologna— has risen from project leader on the Supermono in 1991 to lead the company today a
Cycle World2 min read
The Ducati Apollo V- 4 Saga
By BRUNO DEPRATO Photography by DUCATI ARCHIVE Long before the Panigale V-4 came, the Ducati Apollo V-4 already was. The legendary Ducati engineer Fabio Taglioni devised this advanced project, in 1963, as only he could—primarily the engine, which was

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