Hurtling through a serpentine of canyons on British Columbia’s Crow’s Nest Highway, I’m shocked. The BMW F800S I’d discounted as having an accountant’s soft, sensible and conservative soul, and I are in the groove – smoothly entering the corners, snapping the throttle open at the apex, feeling the rear suspension squat a bit and the…
Category: Motorcycle Tests
Which motorcycles and products we’ve tested, and exactly what we think of them.
2007 Ducati 1098S: 1098kms with the 1098S
It’s a scene from a script. The Ducati 1098S ascends the Angeles Crest, while below a fierce wildfire consumes hectares of brush in L.A.’s Griffith Park. Cut to news footage of residents evacuating the southern boundary. A close-up of twin undertail Termignoni exhaust, the only soundtrack their bellicose bass harmonization. A series of pans as…
BMW G650X Challenge: Dare You To
I wonder what’s up that road? It’s rutted, rocked and the soil looks loamy with aggregate mixed in. I’d never attempt this grade on an adventure bike, but standing tall… very tall on the pegs of BMW’s new purpose-built enduro the G650X Challenge the previously unreasonable seems within my grasp. A twist of the throttle…
2007 KTM 990 Super Duke Road Review – The Austrian Super Villain
Born under a sinister star the 2007 KTM 990 Super Duke has the angular good looks of an Austrian super-villain, who, rather than set his sights on world domination has engaged in a vendetta on your driver’s license and the cannons of traffic law. No common street fighting thug, the Super Duke is out to…
2007 CBR600RR – “Road Ready” Magic Returns
“Ah,” I think to myself, “Honda what have you done?” Our loaner 2007 CBR600RR from Carter Motorsports is blue and quicksilver, launching out of the turn in 2nd gear on a wave of rediscovered midrange torque, the tach sweeping from 7,000-11,000RPM. New lighter titanium under seat exhaust issues the lusty howl of a euphoric in-line…
Used Review: 2003 Aprilia Caponord EVT1000 – Persuasive and Pugnacious
The 2003 Aprilia Caponord is hooning along at 70kph, the front Metzler Tourance hunting though a greasy emulsification of talcum dust to which nature has added water, and logging trucks have stirred. Picking up the Caponord from Carter Motorsports I’d made all the usual utterances, “It looks to have an 80% road bias, so we’ll…
2007 Yamaha R1 Road Impression: TNT Wrapped in a Teddy Bear
It’s late February. It’s Vancouver. It snowed briefly this morning. By late afternoon the temperature “warms” to 5C (41F) allowing for the return of our 2007 Yamaha R1 tester to Pacific Yamaha. For eight days the weather’s been oscillating from warmish sunny days to pure cold wet misery. On those latter days riding has been about…
Ride Impression: Triumph’s Tiger 1050 – Pussy Galore-ious
There is an Indian proverb, “Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.” That’s because the tiger is a super or apex predator sitting at the top-end of the food, chain secure, unchallenged and feared. Triumph’s outgoing Tiger 955i, however, was nothing of the sort. The new Tiger 1050 has no such issues though…
2006 Honda Silver Wing: Meet the Jetsons
George Jetson had it right; even in the opening sequence of the show his whirring air car portrayed the kind of congestion-carving nimbleness that any commuter who’s sat in a constipation of single-occupant, Yaletown-apartment-sized SUVs craves. While a flying car may be out of the question, a sleek solution with slick sci-fi styling and Euro-flair…
Scoot-Touring the Honda Silverwing and Suzuki Burgman
Riding into Princeton the smell of fresh cut hay from roadside ranches wafts through my helmet’s vents. It is hot for June, after a sodden spring the sun is pushing the temperature to 34°C and the hay into midlife. It’s a combination of events that makes this early harvest and the accompanying aroma of fresh…
BMW HP2: Teutonic ‘Tard
It’s 5:30AM in the morning and the BMW HP2 rocks to life. Throwing a leg over I’m instantly confronted with the unexpected – I’m 6″2′ and man this thing is tall, I can barely flat foot it. That’s not the only unexpected, this HP2 is shod in street rubber, a $2500.00 kit transforms the HP2…
Ducati Sport Classic – Sport1000 Speed Racer
My shoulders are molten slag, my wrists are twin torments worthy of the inquisition, the Rocky Mountain air has taken on a hypothermic edge, and rain torrents through my perforated leathers so hard it stings my forearms and my face. I’ve abandoned my long since fogged over visor; it’s become a detriment this night. Between…
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