September/October 2025 Archives

What’s The Worse That Could Happen?

Three bikes, two couples, one wild ride on the Sunshine Coast. Explore the Sunshine Coast! It was time for our annual couples’ motorcycle adventure trip, and my turn to plan something slightly...

Gaining Skills, Moving On

Hard things made easy – like learning off-road riding in Mexico’s Sierra Gorda. I didn’t always do hard things. As someone with anxiety, my excessive worry about what my performance says about...

OH!-hio

New Discoveries in the Buckeye State. It had been years since I’d spent any time in Ohio, so returning home from a trip through the South seemed like the...

Ultrasonic Cleaner

An efficient tool to clean plugged carburetor internals, as well as other small parts A friend of mine recently got a great deal on two motorcycles as the result of an estate sale: a 2003 Harley...

New Age of Motorcycle Breakdowns

I suppose not everything can work perfectly all the time; things tend to break — even new things. Glenn and I were returning from the Horizons Unlimited CanWest meet in Nakusp, B.C. We had...

The EV’s Future

Did Donald Trump just kill the electric motorcycle That’s not a rhetorical question. Or even, believe it or not, an inflammatory one. It’s a serious question for which — loyal readers prepare...

Getting Dirty on Three Wheels

The three-wheeled ADV solution Everybody likes the idea of adventure travel on motorcycles, even non-riding normies (as I write this, Itchy Boots’ book is on the bestseller list and Ewan McGregor...

Touring Excellence

Meet the most advanced touring motorcycle on the planet. Every generation of Bayerische Motoren Werke’s RT — and there have been at least six major revisions — brings with it trepidation....

A Class of One

In the power cruiser segment, the XDiavel stands alone. There was once a time when a single bike fit into many categories. The UJM (universal Japanese...