Michael Been of the 1980s alt-rock band The Call -- and father of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Been -- died Thursday. He was 60.
Dr. Jordan Grafman has never examined nor met Ben Roethlisberger, and yet listening to him talk about the people he studies, it's as if he's describing the troubled Steelers quarterback.
Harleys in Sinai
updated: Thu Apr 08 2010 12:35:00
Egypt's first international H.O.G rally brought together bikers from all over the Middle East and a handful of Europeans.
It was my first time on a Harley Davidson and I'll admit I was more than a little nervous.
Half of the captain's remains will be buried with his mother and the other half cast into the ocean
Today is an anniversary for motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson that it would just as soon not remember.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Italian motorcyclist Luca Manca was critically injured Thursday in the sixth stage of the Dakar Rally and placed in an induced coma after falling from his bike.
Keith Felch is admittedly a big guy, but more than a few super-fit cyclists in Southern California have been left wondering how that dude just went flying by.
Two men walk out of a London jewelry store having pulled off the biggest jewel heist in British history. From ITN.
London police have arrested a man in connection with a brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, they announced Wednesday.
Two men are being sought for questioning in the brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, in which some $65 million in merchandise was stolen, authorities said Tuesday.
A government school in southern India has tested pupils' karate skills by running over their outstretched arms with a motorcycle.
Two and half million people are displaced, but as CNN's Nic Robertson reports, many are largly invisible.
Piled high with food, Minhaj Bahdar rides a rented motorbike back to his family's temporary sanctuary away from the fighting between Pakistan's army and the Taliban.
It had never been done before, but as Monte Perlin gunned the engine of his Harley motorbike and prepared to land it in an open boxcar of a moving train, he was strangely calm.
It was the annual revving of the engines Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial as thousands of motorcyclists converged on Washington to honor those who have served the country.
To feel the vibrancy of Ho Chi Minh City, all you have to do is step out onto a bustling city street.
The Alaska Governor meets with Paul Teutul Sr. about a bike he's building to honor the state
Much has been made of the electric car driving to the rescue of ailing automobile manufacturers and saving the planet at the same time. But what if that eco-savior came on two wheels instead of four?
Japan's top two automakers in a worldwide battle for the eco-minded consumer. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
Weak consumer spending and frozen credit markets are making a rough ride for Harley-Davidson.
Suraj Suroj uses his motorcycle for all of his family's transportation needs. In his case, that means transporting himself, his wife and his two sons to and from work and school. Typically, all four of them squeeze onto the motorbike together on the crowded streets of Delhi, India.
After a series of setbacks, Tata Motors announces that its much-anticipated Nano is ready. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
A motorcycle gang carried out a bold smash-and-grab raid on a jewelry store in the center of London -- right in front of a CNN camera.
A CNN crew filming a story in London records robbers fleeing the scene of a jewel heist. CNN's Sasha Herriman reports.
Defending champion Andre Greipel quit the Tour Down Under on Thursday after crashing during a dramatic third stage won by Rabobank rider Graeme Brown.
The Colorado Desert is seven million acres of scorched earth in the southeast corner of California, along the borders of Mexico and Arizona. Evan Tanner arrived there around noon on Sept. 3 after riding his motorcycle 200 miles east from his home in Oceanside. Ducking under the gnarled branches of ironwood trees, he turned off the road and into the mountains, up one of the many washes carved by flash floods. He found the spot he'd pinpointed days earlier using Google Earth and parked his bike on a starkly beautiful plateau above the wash. He set up a cot and folding canvas chair facing a sea of pebbly mounds dotted with creosote bushes, and then he put up his shelter, a beige nylon tarp held up by metal poles -- critical protection from the sun on a day the temperature reached 117°.
Missing French motorcyclist Pascal Terry has been found dead -- organizers of the Dakar Rally said on Wednesday.
Motorcycle accidents have killed more Marines in the past 12 months than enemy fire in Iraq, a rate that's so alarming, it has prompted top brass to call a meeting to address the issue, officials say.
Marine motorcycle deaths over the last 12 months have topped the number killed in Iraq. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Dozens of burly, tattoo-covered members of the Mongol motorcycle gang were arrested Tuesday by federal agents in six states following a three-year investigation in which undercover agents infiltrated the group
The two princes are setting out on cycles with 80 others on behalf of a charity
The scooter is becoming the new must-have set of wheels in a lot of American cities.
A radio station teams up with a gas station to briefly sell gasoline at 99 cents a gallon. WTNH's Kent Pierce reports.
Keith Urban was en route to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Sydney on Monday when he got into a motorcycle accident while being followed by a photographer, he said in a statement.
George Clooney is doing well in the wake of the motorcycle accident in which he was injured on Friday.
Harley-Davidson said Friday it expects its full-year earnings to come in below year-ago results as consumers reduce spending.
Diego "Chico" Corrales, who won titles in two weight classes and was involved in one of the most memorable fights in recent times, has died in a motorcycle accident.
In a parched, secluded desert, a brutal killing is caught on videotape. A member of the feared and violent Mongol motorcycle gang is shot in the head at close range. His body is dumped in a shallow grave.
French motorbike rider Eric Aubijoux became the second fatality of this year's Dakar Rally on Saturday during the 14th stage between Tambacounda and Dakar.
The death of South African motorcycle rider Elmer Symons overshadowed the fourth day of the Dakar Rally in Morocco on Tuesday.
The notion of a typical "mom and pop" business is getting a makeover, the government reported Thursday.
Drivers who leave their turn signals on for miles? That's nothing ... it's those juggling their cell phones that irritate their brethren the most, according to a recent insurance company survey.
The Seemingly Unsolvable Problem: Kenji Takeuchi used to drive his car every morning to Mugen Denko, the electrical services company he founded in Nagoya, Japan.
The Seemingly Unsolvable Problem: Kenji Takeuchi used to drive his car every morning to Mugen Denko, the electrical services company he founded in Nagoya, Japan. One day in 1994, he witnessed a mot...
When states eliminate laws requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets, the likely result is a 50 to 100 percent increase in motorcycle fatalities, according to a report released Monday.
The Harley Davidson plant in Kansas City, Missouri is a bike lover's paradise, where iconic motorcycles such as the Dyna Glide and V-Rod are born.
Motorcycle sales jumped to their highest level in 25 years in 2004, according to a published report.
CNNMoney: Hog Heaven?updated: Wed Jan 19 2005 12:09:00
Vroom vroom!
In a scene from "Pulp Fiction," a gang leader orders Bruce Willis' character, Butch, to get out of Los Angeles right away and stay out forever. Butch steals some wheels to pick up his girlfriend, who asks where he got "the motorcycle." He's in a huge hurry. But he takes the time to correct her. "It's a chopper, baby, hop on."
A British design graduate has come up with a way to make the road a safer place for motorbike riders, using technology originally developed for jet fighter pilots.
Bill Janklow, a blunt-spoken political titan from South Dakota, will serve 100 days in a county jail for the death of a motorcyclist who slammed into his speeding car last August.
Money Magazine: Harley's top easy riderupdated: Fri Sep 12 2003 14:38:00
If the world seems to have surrendered to its inner Easy Rider lately, take note: Harley-Davidson is turning 100, and everyone's invited to the party.
If the world seems to have surrendered to its inner Easy Rider lately, take note: Harley-Davidson is turning 100, and everyone's invited to the party. Shareholders are already celebrating. As of Ju...
If the world seems to have surrendered to its inner Easy Rider lately, take note: Harley-Davidson is turning 100, and everyone's invited to the party.
KEN OSTERMANN Manager of electronic commerce, Harley-Davidson
Wearing black leather and riding huge Harleys, a motorcycle gang thunders through northern Georgia as if en route to a rumble. But the only rumble for this gang--the Atlanta Harley Owners Group (HO...
Back in 1983, when John Bloor visited a shuttered factory in Coventry, England, the housing developer was looking for his next building site. What he found instead was an idea for a new business. A...
Not every bubble, it seems, has burst. The market capitalization of motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson, for instance, is expanding faster than the waistline of a beer-bellied biker. Its shares have s...
Dennis Bovin, vice chairman of investment banking at Bear Stearns, remembers when "biker" was another word for outlaw. The proud owner of two Harleys--a 1200 Sportster and a 1,365cc FXR3 factory cu...
Gleaming two-tone in black set against Antares Red or KYSO Blue (for "knock your socks off"), big Victory V92C motorcycles are coming off a new assembly line in the prairie town of Spirit Lake, Iow...
Sunbathing on the beach may look sublime in travel ads, but enough of today's multitasking executives want to do more on their weekends away than get a tan, which helps explain the growing populari...
When Richard Teerlink climbed onto the CEO's saddle at Harley-Davidson in 1989, he inherited one of the most storied brands in the history of business. But while Harley still created feelings of fr...
Ask Nike CEO Phil Knight what he likes to do best, and he doesn't hesitate a beat--he likes to break things. Back in the 1960s, he turned the sleepy footwear industry upside down by betting that jo...
Do the open road, the roar of an air-cooled engine and the wind in your face stir memories of a braver time? If so, you're not alone. Thousands of males in mid-life denial have found that today's m...
When Sylvester Stallone visited the plant in Rimini, Italy, where each Bimota motorcycle is built and welded by hand, he reportedly asked the company to give him one for free. (MY NAME IS ROCKY AND...
I had an interesting chat the other day with Robert Hagstrom, who runs a mutual fund that invests "the Warren Buffett way." That's the title of Hagstrom's book on the subject. Lately he's found six...
MOST GREAT BLUE-CHIP GROWTH STOCKS OF THE past 20 years share a common trait: rapid international expansion contributed mightily to their success. Think for a moment about three of the world's best...
IN THE DAYS of misty towers, distressed maidens, and stalwart knights, a young man, walking down a road, came upon a laborer fiercely pounding away at a stone with hammer and chisel. The lad asked ...
LEADERS OF THE PACK. The next Hell's Angel you see could be your sister. Women are now kick-starting 8% of the 400,000 motorcycles that were sold last year, up from 1% in 1960. And even more are re...
Fortune: HOG-WILD IN BREWTOWNupdated: Mon Jul 12 1993 00:01:00
No, they didn't pull up the drawbridge or hide in their root cellars. In fact, the good citizens of Milwaukee welcomed the horde of 75,000 invading bikers. And why not? These motorcyclists -- inclu...
Fortune: COMPANIES TO WATCHupdated: Mon May 31 1993 00:01:00
CUSTOM CHROME Has Nace Panzica changed much since he brought Custom Chrome public 18 months ago? The CEO points to the tie and business suit he is wearing and bursts out laughing. He and most of Cu...
FIRST you hear the pulsating thunder of three dozen unmuffled Harley-Davidsons snaking around the bend. Then you see them. An outlaw motorcycle gang, maybe Pagan's or even Hells Angels, overlords o...
YOU WON'T FIND IT on the balance sheet, and it's not listed in a 10-K or a proxy. If you ask the wizards on Wall Street exactly how it figures into a company's net worth, be prepared for some might...
At the start of the 1980s few people gave Harley-Davidson much chance to survive. The last U.S. motorcycle maker was being battered by the Japanese. Its share of the super-heavyweight motorcycle ma...
ACROSS THE Rust Belt you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping and beer cans shpritzing open: The FORTUNE 500 had its best year ever in 1987. After half a decade of sitting on the sidelines...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THISupdated: Mon Sep 02 1985 00:01:00
''Export restraints are like opium addiction.'' -EIJI TOYODA, 71, chairman of Toyota Motor Corp. ''It's getting a little mushy underfoot.'' -EDWARD MEYER, 60, chairman of Grey Advertising, on the s...
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