Sitting in an over priced $190.00 Ramada Suite in West Hollywood I can only conclude things are not going particularly well with this excursion to test the 1098S.  It’s not the bike, that’s brilliant, but getting there certainly hasn’t been half the fun… and I’m waiting for a change of tide. Nipping up the Angeles…

Time flies when you’re having fun, and the KTM 990 Super Duke is a lot of fun. Our three weeks of testing, which has been punctuated by other bikes like the Benelli TNT 1130 Café Racer and BMW F800S, is almost up. Some bikes we return without a second thought, but the KTM is not…

Neil! Love the video intro on the R1!!! Has a nice “Top Gear” feel to the production. You must be a bit nervous that you’ve now set a new bar for content…us readers will now be hungry for video segments to accompany all features!! Ha ha…seriously nicely done! Best, – Steve, http://www.sundaymorningrides.com It’s the “set…

I spent today being the most irritating rider in the world, as I stepped up and down through the ’07 R1’s throttle in 500RPM increments testing roll on and hard acceleration from various points. It was quite engrossing and I can only imagine what traffic was thinking as I plodded along, then suddenly took off…

It’s my first day back. I’ve returned to OneWheelDrive.Net full time, and it’s got me giggling. Last time I tried this it was a push, this time if feels right, and more importantly it feels busy. I’ve more media proposals than I can possibly write stacked up, we’re in the final stages of arranging a…

Riding a frosty West Saanich Road to work this morning my thoughts slide, like our long-term loaner Multistrada’s rear tire, toward the concept of karma.  You see, last week Monday I worked late, only to find that the parkade had locked up tight at 8pm with my car securely inside.  I ended up begging a…

I was given the opportunity to race a Multistrada 1000 in the upcoming Ducati Cup here in Canada, and I’ve surprised myself by passing on this opportunity. Undoubtedly, it would be fun. It would make a great series of articles, but as much as I dream I’m not a racer.

Bologna, Italy – “This is factory is for some like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.”  Truer words could not be spoken by Livio Lodi, in regard to our Ducati Factory tour, as our herd follows in Livio’s expository wake.  Today though, the factory is more than a fun land of high-end components, slick paint jobs and…

The motorcycle manufacturer’s representative is very candid about the press launches, “Really, not a lot of riding gets done.  There’s a day of track time, and then the next day three or so hours of street riding if you’re lucky.  Often that’s lead.”  Neil Graham, in “Confessions from a Press Launch” [April 2006 Cycle Canada],…

Divorce has been on my mind of late, but it seems I’m not alone.  Frederick and Hamel (1998), for whom the topic seems so all consuming, it has become work as well as past time, cautiously estimate that “almost one in every three Canadian couples (31%) who married in 1991 will eventually split up if…

Snakes on a Plane is at best a stale collection of B-movie cliches cobbled together into the semblance of a movie and propelled skywards by meme-happy bloggers and a hyperactive marketing machine, but as a barometer of the American psyche it could not be more telling. Steven King, a man not unfamiliar with shock-slock, posits…

After a morning of franticly trying to source a hotel room, floor space or tree to sleep under for MotoGP, I can’t help but wonder if the greed of local hoteliers is going to kill the Laguna Seca MotoGP slowly.  At the low end I’m looking at about a grand Canadian for a dodgy two-star…