Tests and Features

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  Vintage - January 30, 2012

  Building the Perfect Two-Stroke Smoker

  “Pretty much everything was a challenge," Yan Fossat said right off the bat. Fossat, who emigrated from Nice almost 20 years ago, had restored a Suzuki GT380 as a winter … Full story »

  Filed in: Suzuki

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  Press Launches - January 23, 2012

  First Ride: 2012 Can-Am Spyder RS/RT

  The Hollywood United Methodist Church, on Franklin Avenue in West Hollywood, is a beautiful gleaming white concrete structure in the English Gothic style. It has 50,000 pieces of stained… Full story »

  Filed in: Can-Am | Spyder RS | Spyder RT

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  Press Launches - January 17, 2012

  First Ride: 2012 Yamaha YZF-R1

  Given the engineering might of the Big Four Japanese manufacturers, it was surprising that when traction control first filtered down from the racetrack to the street it was brought to … Full story »

  Filed in: Yamaha | Sport | Naked | Supersport | Sport touring | Sport

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  Features - January 9, 2012

  Punk'd

  As a teenager skateboarding to punk music, Marco Luk couldn’t have known how closely his future bike-building career would reflect the chorus of Minor Threat’s eponymous song:… Full story »

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  Press Launches - January 2, 2012

  First Ride: 2012 Kawasaki ZX-14R

  “Welcome to the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway,” read the large sign as I rode past the weigh scales following my first run down the quarter mile drag strip. Full story »

  Filed in: Kawasaki | Supersport | Supersport | Sport touring

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  Press Launches - December 27, 2011

  First Ride: 2012 Victory Cross Country Tour

   The speakers at a Victory Motorcycles press briefing had not minced words when they described the new Cross Country Tour to a pack of assembled journalists: “This is the most… Full story »

  Filed in: Victory | Touring | Touring

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  Features - December 23, 2011

  All Night Long on Kymco's Quannon 150

  June 25, just barely – in fact, it’s 5 a.m. Drizzling. A hundred scooters are lined up behind the Holiday Inn in Barrie, Ontario. Neighbours are sleeping, so we’re told … Full story »

  Filed in: Kymco | Quannon 150 | Supersport

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  Travel destination - December 19, 2011

  Eastbound and Down: Toronto to Halifax on a Honda CBR250R

  When I was 23, I rode a two-stroke Gilera 125 from London, England, to Pisa, Italy. I consider that journey (1,200 kilometres across three countries and over one of the … Full story »

  Filed in: Honda | Sport | Naked | Supersport | Sport touring | Adventure touring | Sport

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  Features - December 12, 2011

  Stripped, Slammed and Sinuous

  A freakishly fast sport bike it's not. Nor is it a long and lazy chopper with chromed sissy bar and forward controls. Neither would be Bob Klassen’s style.But the bobber, … Full story »

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