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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Press Launches - November 21, 2011
First Ride: 2012 BMW S1000RR
Two years ago BMW built the world’s most powerful street-legal superbike. Now, in version 2.0, they have grudgingly acknowledged that with fallible humans at the controls, subtlety… Full story »
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Press Launches - October 14, 2011
First Ride: 2012 Ducati Streetfighter 848
The original 1,098 cc Streetfighter is a ferocious beast. For the Streetfighter 848, Ducati tries a different approach.An hour into our ride on the Streetfighter 848 we… Full story »
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Press Launches - July 4, 2011
First Ride: 2012 Suzuki V-Strom 650 ABS
Far from being the crude east European nation that our misguided angel (that's how Thornton describes himself these days) anticipated, Croatia is a delight. Ditto Suzuki's new… Full story »
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Press Launches - June 7, 2011
First Ride: 2012 Honda Gold Wing
It is one of motorcycling’s greatest nameplates. But it’s time we had a discussion on the future of the Gold Wing.In the press material provided by Honda for… Full story »
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Press Launches - May 12, 2011
First Ride: 2011 BMW K1600 GT/GTL
Sometimes only a half-dozen will do — BMW sinks the languid LT and resurfaces with a pair of sixes.I’ll cut straight to the punch line: this is… Full story »
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Press Launches - April 29, 2011
First Ride: 2011 Triumph Thunderbird Storm
Cliches abound at the launch of triumph’s thunderbird storm. Leave it to Steve Thornton to confuse the lads with a reference from the French Revolution, which surely had nothing to … Full story »
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Press Launches - February 11, 2011
Canadian Exclusive: We Ride the Ducati Diavel
Standing around with other journalists after the day’s ride in the mountains near Malaga, Spain, I comment on what I believe is the new Ducati Diavel’s most successful styling element:… Full story »
