It’s as if all the frustration and repression in the fatherland were suddenly given an outlet through this engine, and that should be terrifying. Except this is a Beemer, so it’s not. This, the BMW K1200R, is civilized madness, a new designer drug to which you are instantly addicted. The collection of letters and numbers read…
Category: Motorcycle Tests
Which motorcycles and products we’ve tested, and exactly what we think of them.
2006 Hyosung GT250 Comet – Inconspicuous Consumpt
The recipe for a beginner’s bike is pretty simple really. It needs enough of an engine to get you up to highway speeds, handling that’s good enough to get you through the corners without trauma, and brakes that handle what traffic throws at you – like a bus – all sandwiched in by a capable…
2005 Buell Ulysses – All Roads Lead To Roam
The rocks are rounded, smoothed and damp with the morning’s cool fall dew. The road has seen water, and lots of it, in its tenure as both tributary and means of conveyance. In the face of the stunning surroundings I keep in mind the words of wisdom offered by my offroad companion, “stand up, keep…
Evader EV1000 – Move over WMD, meet WMT
Realization hits me with a sopping wet thud of a bug (you know the juicy kind) splattering, driven by hurricane force into my visor; this may be the most socially relevant two-wheeler I’ve had the honor of twisting the throttle of. The Evader EV1000, or ERA, silently whisks me up to a respectable city traffic…
The Maddest Compo – Ducati Multistrada 620 vs Suzuki GSX-R 1000
The engine is thrumming, the throttle is pegged, and I’m in the best areo-tuck 6’2” 200lbs of editorial content can manage. The windscreen begins to vibe a bit. I bump the rev limiter in the neighborhood of eleven—five. Upshift, the throttle is light and oil-smooth, I barely blip and keep it pegged. In the distance…
Forbidden Fruit – KTM Super Duke 990
It seems that when it comes to motorcycles, the Euros always get the special stuff. Lots of exotica that we never see. Makes sense I guess since they seem to be more interested in styles and models of motorcycles other than soundalike cruisers. You know, sound effects masquerading as a motorcycle! (oops…did I say that?…
Harley Davidson VRSCR Street Rod – Sport Cruiser Resurrected
This is not how it should be, no, not at all. This is a Harley Davidson and frankly I’m shocked.There is no hint of an engine carved from cast iron and suspension made of tree trunks, this is not the “resist-all-change” response to development that HD has become known for. This is good, really good. Not…
2005 Suzuki DR-Z400SM – The Whole Dirt Thing Remixed
It’s 6AM and I’m foot down through pre-rush hour traffic in Victoria, B.C., which is to say that I’m alone save for the occasional police cruiser and public transit. It’s the kind of day that I normally dread at the “day job”, a code drop for a major product, and as I do my best…
2005 K1200S – A Solution That Just Obliterated the Problem
Looking down at the gauges I realize I’m hardly even moving the tach. The sci-fi whine that would not be out of place on the bridge of some of the galaxy’s better appointed battle cruisers accompanies my 5,000RPM amble. The twisties are fast approaching, and the devil takes me… And then the K1200S takes the…
2005 Suzuki SV-650N – Naked Adulation
“Be a little careful on it, it’s fresh out of the crate.” Indeed looking at the odometer the SV650N was showing a mere 0.3km on the “dial”. That mileage made the SV650 as it was delivered to us, a newborn naked bike. Now, despite us carrying the reputation of being Moto-Journalists, we’re giving the engine…
2004 KTM 950 Adventure – Exploration in a Class of One
Late 2003, the KTM 950 Adventure arrived here in North America with much fanfare. Almost a year later, the big KTM is still very much that intriguing new kid in town as ever. KTM is predominantly a builder of off-road motorcycles, that’s given the company a higher profile among the hardcore dirt types than most,…
2004 KTM 950 Adventure – Counterpoint
Every junior quantum physicist knows the creature: Schrodinger’s cat – a feline in a sealed box with a vial of poison. The cat may be alive or it may be dead, killed by a quantum event that may have released the poison from the vial. The poor thing exists only as a waveform – as…
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