The Hope HB916 is Pure Enduro Flattery | Review

Earlier this year, Hope Technology announced the all-new Hope HB916 Enduro Bike. It is unashamedly a thorough-bred race machine, as demonstrated by Joe Barnes on the World Enduro circuit. A “semi” high-pivot four-bar suspension platform delivers 160mm of rear wheel travel, with a majority rearward axle path on a slacked-out […]

Modernized: OWM’s custom Harley Softail Standard

During his first decade of building custom bikes as One Way Machine, Julian von Oheimb worked exclusively on older Harley-Davidsons. Then, about a year ago, a customer asked him to apply his signature touch to a modern Milwaukee Eight-powered Softail. Julian obliged—and even though the platform demanded a fresh approach, […]

A wrongfully terminated Chinese-American scientist was just awarded nearly $2 million in damages

It’s been almost a decade since the Chinese-American hydrologist Sherry Chen’s life was turned upside down by an unfounded accusation of spying, and this week, she finally received something like justice.  Today, Chen’s lawyers announced that the scientist won a historic $1.8 million settlement from the US Commerce Department for […]