motorcycle
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With her motorcycle, leather jacket and buzz cut, Judith looks, Katy observes, “more like a jacked, angry Sinéad O’Connor than a detective.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The wreck in the Danube was reportedly discovered on 2 August, when a passersby reported part of the motorcycle protruding from the rocks on the riverbank in downtown Budapest.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Operating profit for its motorcycle business increased thanks to higher sales in India and Brazil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
According to the CHP, a solo-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle was reported just before 11:20 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
I’ve noticed that the same group of motorcycle riders comes to have coffee in the parking lot a few times a week, and they’ve started waving and saying good morning to me.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
"It felt like the end of the world -- cars and motorcycles driving the wrong way, everyone searching for their loved ones," said volunteer rescue worker Nelson Moreno.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Half of the 22 million motorcycles produced in China last year were exported, and nearly all brands are looking overseas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Across India's cities, those who cannot afford cars or motorcycles are left to risk their lives on roads that barely accommodate pedestrians.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The company said it expects to sell more motorcycles this year than it previously expected to, after reporting strong North American sales in the second quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Unlike the steady stream of the highway, here rickshaws, motorcycles, trucks, and cars shared the narrow roads alongside bicycles and throngs of people.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
She has traveled and lived around the world, crisscrossed South America and Indonesia on her own, motorcycled through Europe and Turkey.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2019
He studied art at a Christian college and motorcycled through Europe in his early 20s to, he said, “sleep in fields and eat yogurt.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2017
In 1908 he motorcycled from John O'Groats to Land's End.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2016
He has since motorcycled all over the country, praising and photographing his favorite examples.
From Time Magazine Archive
June 8… Norm and I went sailing; motorcycled to Loud Thunder.
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Lauren Ann Isaacson
While many Chinese cities have restricted motorcycling, Chongqing has embraced it and become a biker's paradise.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
That blocked the pipeline bringing new people into motorcycling, said Christy LaCurelle, president and chief executive of the Motorcycle Industry Council.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
I loved it as a whole aesthetic, but I wanted to remove it from this motorcycling boy world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
So I’m proclaiming this my summer of motorcycling on rice and beans.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
The boys had been talking of motorcycling, and had been discussing Bert's record-breaking run across the continent.
From Bert Wilson on the Gridiron by J. W. Duffield
