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RIDE-CT's stable of rides...

(Posted February 1, 2010)

RIDE-CT's current rides include a 2003 Harley-Davidson VRSC (V-Rod), a 1985 BMW K100RS and a 1969 Triumph T100R Daytona.

Bud Wilkinson took up riding at the age of 51 in the fall of 2004. His first bike was a 1999 Triumph Legend (below), which was replaced a year or so later by a 2004 Triumph Sprint ST (above).

When Wilkinson found that his aging knees couldn't tolerate the Sprint's riding position, the bike was quickly traded for the V-Rod.

A 1985 Yamaha XS850 (below) later got added to the collection. It stayed for but a short while when the Triumph T100R and the BMW were acquired and the garage got too full of motorcycles.

Wilkinson now rides between 5,000 and 10,000 miles per year and, like many riders, always has his eyes open for another acquisition. 

About Bud Wilkinson

(Posted February 1, 2010)

Award-winning print and broadcast journalist Bud Wilkinson writes the weekly RIDE-CT motorcycle column in The Republican-American newspaper in Waterbury, Conn.

He is also afternoon personality at Hartord's WJMJ (FM 88.9) and hosts the nationaly syndicated syndicated radio show Broadway's Biggest Hits, which is heard on Phoenix's KOY, Denver's KEZW, Seattle’s KIXI, New Haven’s WQUN and Cape Cod’s Ocean 104.7.

The weekly RIDE-CT column premiered in July 2005 in The Republican-American. It celebrates motorcycling and promotes safe riding. An avid motorcyclist, Wilkinson is also a regular contributor to RoadBike and Motorcycle Classics magazines. 

A Connecticut native, Wilkinson spent more than two decades in high profile media positions in Phoenix. He launched Broadway's Biggest Hits as a local show on KOY radio in late December 1997. It became an instant ratings success, prompting syndication nine months later.

Bud Wilkinson interviews Donny Osmond

for Broadway's Biggest Hits

Prior to creating Broadway's Biggest Hits, Wilkinson spent eight years as Entertainment Editor at Fox-owned KSAZ-TV (Channel 10) and Entertainment Reporter for news/talk KTAR radio, preceded by 10 years as TV/Radio Columnist for The Arizona Republic.

A graduate of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont and Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, Wilkinson brings an award-winning background in journalism to Broadway's Biggest Hits and to RIDE-CT.

Wilkinson was honored with a Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award in 1992 for a series of reports on adult literacy for Channel 10 and received a regional Emmy Award for commentary on Channel 10 that same year.

During his career he has also written frequently for Arizona Highways, Phoenix, (Arizona) Diamondbacks, Arizona Golf Journal and Theatre CT magazines.

Wilkinson lives in Harwinton, Connecticut and may be reached by phone at 860-485-3118.