
First Impressions: The Kawasaki Ninja 1000 by Brandon Jackson for webBikeWorld.com Background A few weeks ago, in April (2016), I had the unfortunate circumstance of experiencing a lowside crash on my 2006 Triumph Sprint 1050. It was one of those instances where you just don't anticipate the...
The adventure doesn't really begin, they say, until something goes wrong. When we combine adventure bikes with guys that have seen too many BMW commercials, this inevitably entails picking adventure bikes back up from the dusty trail (or in my case, having them extracted by helicopter)....
"The Angel ST was a good joke," says Francesco Pietrangeli, Marketing Director for Pirelli's motorcycle division. This wasn't a derogatory knock on the tire, more a lighthearted quip about the Angel ST's tread pattern design morphing from an angel to a devil after roughly 600 miles. "Because the...