March 2024

Riding Route 100
An exploration of friendship and nature along Vermont’s Scenic Byway. On a map, Route 100 becomes Route 105 just six kilometres south of Lake Memphremagog in northern Vermont. But it’s the same...
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Klim Gear for Sweltering Heat or Stormy Wet
It pays to have the right gear when dealing with the elements. INDUCTION PRO JACKET AND INDUCTION PANTS Living and driving as we do in constantly climate-controlled environments does nothing to...
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Paradise Re-Found
This writer had a burning desire to once again ride off-road, and actually changed bikes to make it happen. Here’s the thing about time: It only moves forward, never back. But such is life. With...
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Yamaha FS1
High school desire comes to fruition for 2024 that has been simmering for more than four decades is the cause of my latest two-wheeled purchase. When I turned 14, I bought my first motorized...
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Getting Our Kicks
Exploring Route 66 across the American heartland. The heat was killer. Even as the sun sank behind a treed horizon, the thick air clung like a wet quilt. Wilting and spent, the three riders circled...
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A Reflection of Self
Do you ever catch a glimpse of your motorcycle and see yourself embodied by the machine I do, and I’m happy that we still have an emotional connection to the bikes that we ride — we thrive when...
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Electric Vehicle Ban
A racetrack in rural Wales, the Anglesey Trac Môn Circuit, just became the first in the United Kingdom to ban electric vehicles. More important, at least to this column, is that Anglesey’s ban...
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BMW’S ADV-X
Guided tour of the wilds of British Columbia takes BMW GS riders to new heights. Thirty-one riders tackled nearly 1,900 kilometres of winding roads, logging roads, creeks, drops and cow paths during...
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Practical Corner Carver
A superbike for the adventure set. So, you’ve outgrown your CBR600RR. Perhaps it was a GSX-R600. Maybe Team Green’s 636. Hell, it could even have been a R6, though Yamaha hasn’t built a...
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Austrian Rocket
The “monster” of adventure bikes needs space to stretch its legs. The biggest anomaly about KTM — at least, the biggest anomaly other than “Why orange” — is how they have built a...
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Bavarian Grand Tourer
There’s just something about a six-pack symphony of pistons on the open road. Motorcycling is all about minimalism. Or at least we like to pretend it is. Of course, if that were really true, we’d...
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