Reviewing is constrained by time and word count, which leads to gaps in evaluations no matter how thorough you try to be. Luckily, we’ve a couple standout commenters join the conversation following our Multistrada 1200 S review. The review is as comprehensive as we could make it, indeed we needed to break it into two…

Spending the better part of my 40th Birthday mired on Rogers help lines, a new glitch has arisen that may be a security risk or just plain sloppy development in the iPad 3G cellular activation process.

Wrapping up testing of the Multistrada 1200S in Kelowna means a long wet ride back to Vancouver on the Varadero as a passenger, and that has me thinking about the plight of the pillion.

I’ve just run across town to return the Ducati Streetfighter 1098. In traffic it is a surging, charging, bucking beast, the engine just doesn’t live till 4,000RPM and anything below sees it straining at the leash. I’ve exchanged the SF for the Hypermotard 796, which is a 50% reduction in power and is truly a…

So here we go, pulling back the curtain a little with a Testing Blog. You’ll have noticed that I stepped away from testing sport bikes for a while to pursue adventure riding, but if you’re going to come back there can be no bigger jump into the deep end, sink or swim, than a Ducati…

A letter from CAUSE.ca concerning a motorcycle tour of Sierra Leone, reveals how bikes can better the world by using dual-sport to deliver aid and education.

Near bald, the Hypermotard 1100S’s Pirelli Diablo III is spinning in the damp dirt, while fellow rider Mark pushes it from behind. Despite the enduro looks the Hypermotard was never meant for this, but some thrown dirt, pushing and shoving, the Ducati enters the Kettle Valley Railway (KVR) creating a definitive ride of 2009.

Press Releases are an editorial dilemma, especially when they transcend information, and become blatant advertising backed by a promoters sense of entitlement.

By commenting on Motorcycle.com’s “leak” of the Multistrada 1200 this week, formerly known to the public as the Strada Aperta or Cayenne, we’ve been assailed by a storm of Internet traffic. So much so we’ve had to install a caching system to keep http://OneWheelDrive.Net up, running and vaguely responsive. This has me thinking about notoriety, the Internet and integrity.

The print motorcycle magazine industry is not a healthy thing.  British magazines like Bike and TWO (now VisorDown taking the name of the magazines website) have developed content bulimia, shedding pages on a free-fall purge, and several American magazines are on the verge of anorexic extinction.  There is hope though in a confluence of consumer…

Harley-Davidson has discontinued Buell and is divesting itself of MV Agusta, the Italian sport bike company it purchased last year. In doing so did Harley-Davidson just throw away its future?

How quickly do we forget what it’s like to be a new rider? The accumulation of experience can eventually drown out the novelty of riding and wonder of what a motorcycle can do and represent. We kick ourselves for not throwing a knee down in the corner, we twiddle suspension settings looking to eke out…