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…

For a while I owned an ST1100, and every year as Big Red’s new models and updates were announced, the speculation would begin amongst the denizens of the ST1100 mailing list. Half wish list and half rumour mill (a friend of a friend’s second cousin works at Honda and…) the faithful would speculate on Honda’s…