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motorcycle

[moh-ter-sahy-kuhl] / ˈmoʊ tərˌsaɪ kəl /


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It was an epic remembrance, with feelings complicated by the fact that Mastodon was estranged from Hinds at the time of his death at 51 from a motorcycle crash in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Flavio Bolsonaro was taking part in a motorcycle rally about 400km away in Sao Paulo state.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Ryan Collins had covered a motorcycle with a tarp and parked in the driveway of a house that belonged to a woman with whom he was spending the night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

His father gave him his first guitar, a white 1964 Fender Stratocaster, trading in a $100 motorcycle to pay for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

“It’s just weird, isn’t it? Balancing a motorcycle on your teeth? Doesn’t make sense.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Like Wehr, Kramer appeared to have a passion for cars and motorcycles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

The new tariffs will hit only some of these U.S. exports, affecting goods including steel, aluminum, dairy products, motorcycles and agricultural machinery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

During communist days, chronic shortages and years-long waiting lists for cars like the puttering Trabant meant that mopeds and motorcycles became an indispensable way to get around.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

But officials are most concerned about young riders on the electric bicycles and motorcycles outfitted with the most powerful motors that can sometimes outrun police vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

I zip down Pitt Street and then Cotton Street, full of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and American-made trucks.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

The soldier motorcycled in to see the artist.

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

Last month, I mourned the passing of my motorcycling days as I prepped my 1973 Honda CB350F for sale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

Tom Setterlund is a retired safety engineer who spends his time backcountry motorcycling, mostly on fire roads in the San Bernardino National Forest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 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


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