March 2024 Archives - Motorcycle Mojo

Riding Route 100

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:09:57 +0000

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

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:09:10 +0000

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

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:08:09 +0000

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

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:06:50 +0000

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

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:05:50 +0000

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

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:05:18 +0000

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

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:04:21 +0000

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

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:03:18 +0000

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

Mojo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:02:38 +0000

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

gooder — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:02:04 +0000

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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