Please find a list of more archived stories from our 43 years of publishing motorcycle content from around the world. The stories range from motorcycle reviews to travel features to showcasing custom motorcycles from Canada and the international scene. The list will be continually updated as we continue to archive stories that were only ever seen when the original print issue was published.
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We hope you enjoy this ride into both the recent and not so recent past.
Mojave Desert Incident : Ferrill To the Rescue
When two stranded off-roaders are faced with life or death in the Mojave Desert, only one man can save them. And his super-powers are truly unique. Obviously, leaving my girlfriend…
A Scrambler for Alternative Tastes : Ducati Cafe Racer (2017)
Ducati’s original Scrambler was surprisingly fun. A couple years after its launch, and the family is still growing. For 2017 there’s a Café Racer version. We traveled to Bologna to…
The Bikes That Paid The Bills : Touring Motorcycles
Saluting the veteran touring rider who carried the industry through its last big boom riding big touring motorcycles across the country. The touring genre is as ubiquitous to motorcycling as…
Custom: Little Big Bike – Honda Shadow Phantom
The bike never gained much traction in the market, but a Victoria-based builder specializing in Japanese customs demonstrates that a tweak here and there makes all the difference in a…
Three Days in Invercargill : A Motorcycle Collection and More
It’s not easy to get there, but for serious gearheads and automotive historians, the effort is richly rewarded by this motorcycle collection. There are many good reasons to travel to…
Touratech Adventure Rally – 972 New Friends
Backcountry camping, mountain rides, seminars, vendors, demonstrations and the camaraderie of like-minded riders are all part of the Touratech Adventure Rally West. Winter stubbornly relented in British Columbia sometime around…
Looking for 400MPH – Land Speed Record
There’s excitement about this summer’s world land speed record attempt by a California team with a Hayabusa-powered streamliner. But there are also troubling questions about the state of the world’s…
Custom : Beautiful Medieval Bagger
When he was challenged to up his game, a multi-award winning custom builder set his sights on the radical bagger genre. Jay was just a boy growing up in India…
Meet MotoChild – A Traditional Harley-Davidson Spirit
Two people with a shared passion for Harley-Davidson tradition meet in Vancouver, merge their talents, and form a new company, MotoChild, in the woods of Vancouver Island. Last summer while…
Moto Rumi – The Two Shooter Scooter
When you’re a freelance writer, rule one is—the editor is always right. And if he’s wrong, he (or she) is still the editor, with the power to run or “spike”…
Shovelheads are the New Pans
Our Tech Advisor Rich Burgess took a break from nuts and bolts and brought us to BC’s Kootenay region where Shovel Fest had the locals getting down and grungy. …
Farewell To You Old Friend – Selling The KLR650
There’s much more to a bike deal than the straight handover of cash, as Trevor discovers while he ponders the sale of his faithful KLR650. October of 2011, I was…
Frank Finds Utopia – New Brunswick Motorcycle Tour
It’s amazing what a guy will trip across while meandering the back roads of New Brunswick with both time and a V-Strom on his hands. Maybe it was reading George…
Suzuki V-Strom: Beauty Tips From the Legendary Beast (2020)
With its styling hints from a late 1980s monster, Suzuki has christened its big 2020 V-Strom 1050 the “Master of Adventure.” Too zealous? Maybe. Okay let’s get real. The 2020 Suzuki V-Strom isn’t…
Harley-Davidson XR750 : Lean and Give Me 50
The iconic XR750 celebrates 50 years and an astounding run of success that extends well beyond the bike’s domination on the flat track. If ever you ask, which is THE…
The Zen Gearhead and Nicholson Brothers
Over the years we have frequently published stories and come to know the many characters from the legendary Saskatoon motorcycle shop, Nicholson Brothers. Here, one old hand from those not-forgotten…
Once Around The Block : Honda and Flat Track Twins
For a brief period in the 1980s, Honda brought its corporate muscle to flat track twins. For the many years Harley-Davidson XR750s dominated the bare earth battleground that is flat…
A Rare Jewel : Bimota Tesi H2
With centre hub steering and Kawasaki engine technology, the Bimota Tesi H2 arrives as a premium superbike you’ll likely never see. There might come a time when your run of the…
Show Stopper!
The MMIC says shows will return in 2022 The inevitable was put off as long as possible but if wishes were fishes we would all be going to motorcycle shows…
Harley-Davidson : The Plan Before the Official Plan
(Long before Harley-Davidson put an official name to it, we were already talking about the changes to come for the iconic brand as this story from 2018 shows. It seems…
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