
The BMW S1000XR: Adventure, Sport and More! Part 1: First Impressions by H.B.C. for webBikeWorld.com Background As an early adopter of most things, including technology and new motorcycles, investing in both has and remains a huge sometimes consuming part of my life. But over the last ten years...
From the August 2005 issue of Cycle World. It's been said that use of tools is what separates us from the primates. But after our recent bout with old smoking motorcycles in the fully equipped Cycle World shop, I'm not so sure. There were plenty of primate noises, mad grimaces and much hurled...
Just as there are a million ways to skin a cat, there are a million ways to go sport-touring, too. Some folks prefer the full-on Gold Wing style of touring, while others sway the other direction, slapping on a backpack filled only with the bare essentials as they dart off aboard their sportbike....
Back in the "good" old days of magneto ignition and leather-belt final drives, roadside repairs on a motorcycle were the rule, not the exception. Today, so long as you're not a crasher, you can probably ride a new bike across a continent without doing anything more than topping off the tank...
Two ways to get outta town.Torrance, California, January 2, 2001 — During the first five years of MO's nefarious existence, Honda's Gold Wing reigned supreme as king of the all-out touring hill. Indeed, during that time we felt the 'Wing was the epitome of what a long-distance tourer should be....
For this holiday edition of our weekly Church feature, we turn to 2006, and a motorcycle many surely wanted Santa to bring them: the Ducati Monster S4Rs. By this point, Ducati had figured out that plucking the engine from their full-fledged superbikes and stuffing them into the Monster chassis...
The shoe that had not yet dropped, however, was Honda's new 2018 Gold Wing. Now it has. American Honda loaned us a brandspanking red Gold Wing DCT (Dual Clutch Transmission), And so we ride! Instead of seven brosephuses, though, it's just me and my boy Ryan on a long weekend spin up to...