It’s on the descent from Apex Ski Resort that I find my pace with the Moto Guzzi Griso 1100; the corners are taken elegantly in an exuberant dance through the hairpins as seductive and powerful as any tarantella. Until now the Griso has been an enigma to me, a strange blend of cruiser, sportbike, and…
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Which motorcycles and products we’ve tested, and exactly what we think of them.
R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part II
“It’s going to be the, ‘I rode one of these in the war’ story”, I joke as we watch two elderly gentlemen appraise the three bikes. BMWs it seems are some of the most approachable bikes, in part I think due to the sense of history they imbue. The door opens and the white haired…
Ducati Desmosedici RR Preview
There is power here; I felt it first riding along the serpentine asphalt that serves as the entryway to Laguna Seca. Now, stepping out onto the pit lane the energy intensifies, the new-age types might have Sedona but there is no doubt that a confluence of motorsport Ley-lines meet here. I feel a tingle in…
R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part I
We ascend into Manning Park to the aeronautic thrum of the three horizontally opposed twin engines as the BMW R1200RT, R1200ST and R1200GS Adventure sweep though in single file. April’s rugged meteorological terrain has been washed over with summer’s sheen, with the sun beating the snow back into the trees along British Columbia’s Highway 3. …
2006 Ducati Multistrada 1000: Riding with Righteous Indignation
Dear Ducati, What would possess you to create a bike like the Multistrada 1000? This is not a motorcycle so much a dopamine pump directly to the fun-centre of the brain; a two-wheeled narcotic of Hunter S. Thompson proportions with a preponderance of addictive qualities to match the most potent of designer chemicals. I am…
2006 Suzuki M109R – A Thunderous Marauder of Voracious Appetite
At 4500 RPM I whack the throttle of Suzuki’s new power cruiser offering, the M109R, and the result is a melodious baritone trumpet. It’s the type of sound a dinosaur might make in its death throws before it got on with something useful like becoming petroleum. Give the M109R’s voracious appetite for fuel that makes…
Road Review: 2006 Suzuki GSX-R 750
It’s the sound of plastic scraping hollowly across blacktop that scares the hell out of me. Have I lost the bike? No, it’s my knee-puck giving notice that the 2006 Suzuki GSX-R 750 is on duty and making me look better than I am. Out of the corner of my eye I see photographer Kevin…
BMW R1200GS Adventure: A is for Adventure, That’s Good Enough for Me.
Gingering BMW’s new R1200GS Adventure onto the gravel I realize the weight that sitting atop of 33 litres of petrochemicals carries with it, such concerns are suddenly blown apart by the explosion of touring and adventure possibilities all those litres contain. BMW claims that at 90km/h that the new R1200GS Adventure’s massive tank will carry…
R1200S vs. R1100S – New vs. Old
Softly, softly… that’s the way those other magazines used to describe the power delivery of the old BMW R1100S. It wasn’t so much that the power/torque figures were bad, it’s just that the bike was a little lardy, and, come to think of it, maybe just a smidge underpowered for this modern age. So, is…
2006 BMW R1200S – Not Your Fatherland’s Beemer
Second gear coming out of the corner and I hit the throttle; the motor torques past 7000RPM and needle and front wheel go skyward. That comes as a shock. The front end comes down and we’re off with a rotty twin-meets-diesel growl like no other license-pummeling, tire immolating sportbike. To coin a phrase, this is…
2006 BMW K1200GT – Lord Vader, Your Bike is Ready
Past the 7000RPM mark the 2006 K1200GT’s engine spins up with a guttural ferocity and a growling primeval engine note serving notice to whatever the posted limit is that it’s about to be thoroughly trounced. That sound and the acceleration it represents gives the newest bike in the BMW K series some serious X-factor. Normally…
Snow Day: The R1150GS
Blame the weather; an early March dump of snow in Vancouver is near unheard of and put our regular bike testing plans on hold. Sipping coffee and walking along the beach it was easy to eye the glistening downhill slopes of Cypress Bowl and buy into a lie that so many Vancouverites have perpetuated through…
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