Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2025 i Motorcycle Mojo Magazine

This June issue’s content is quite widespread — I don’t think we could have a more diverse issue. It covers the gamut of what Motorcycle Mojo is about: motorcycling, not just motor-cycles. We cover ground from two reviews of motorcycles that couldn’t be more different from one another, to a couple travel stories that range from a long-term ride to getting away for a quick two-day weekend trip. There is a story on discovering the wilds of British Columbia on BMW R1300GS adventure bikes and an article on finding not one, not two, but three classic sportbikes still in their crates. And finally, an article about what we all know, how motor-cycling can help with physical and mental health. In the Low Rider ST article, written by Costa Mouzouris, he…

Over these past two years, I’ve spent a lot of time on the trials bike. When I first took up the sport, I didn’t expect it to consume my life; I merely expected it to allow me to better my riding skills on larger bikes. Almost immediately, I found my skills improving on ADV and dirtbikes: I was looking ahead and at potential lines on the road or trail that I wouldn’t have noticed before, thinking more about where my front tire would be placed and had a better understanding of how to use my suspension. Trials riding trains you to hone in on every aspect of movement and input you put into the bike. Because of its light weight and torquey demeanour, everything is amplified through the bike; too…

Exploring off-road is at the top of many adventure riders’ lists. Many of us purchase adventure bikes with the knowledge that they can go almost anywhere. Unfortunately, our skills often don’t match the potential of ADV bikes. Many lack training, community or confidence in their ability to take their bikes into the wild unknown. Last September, I was welcomed to the BMW ADV-X, an event I had been looking forward to all year. The event offered instruction, guided rides, accommodation, meals, and even transport of your bike across Canada. Over 50 riders congregated at Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops, B.C., to explore some of the best gravel and trails in the interior of the province. “THE CREATIVITY OF THE ROUTE-PLANNING OFFERED IMMENSE DIVERSITY IN TERRAIN AND SCENERY” There were riders…

“THE TURNING POINT WAS SEEING THE TOWERING LINE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, STANDING AT ATTENTION ALMOST AS IF TO BECKON US IN” Two days — that’s usually all we get. I’d wager most people reading this work full-time and only get two days off a week to do with as they please. This might seem limiting but, if you’re creative, sometimes it can work in your favour. As was the case with this quick weekend trip. On the morning of day one, my partner, Spencer, and I left early from Calgary and headed west toward Banff on Highway 1. Spencer was riding his 2023 Harley-Davidson Road Glide and I was on my 2018 Moto Guzzi V7 Rough; both bikes were strategically packed to include camping gear and everyday necessities. In…

Head to MotorcycleMojo.com and submit your answers through our Trivia page. You have until June 20th. 1 What was the first motorcycle brand to use hydraulic telescopic forks on a production motorcycle? A: BMW B: Yamaha C: Ducati D: Kawasaki 2 Two riders were head-to-head trading wins throughout the iconic 1989 CSBK race season. Who won the 1989 CSBK championship? A: Miguel Duhamel B: Michel Mercier C: Gary Goodfellow D: Steve Crevier 3: What did Suzuki first produce when the business first started? A: Airplanes B: Weaving Looms C: Firearms D: Bicycles 4: In what year did New Zealander Bruce Anstey record the fastest Supersport TT time of 1:15.13.98? A: 2000 B: 1998 C: 2003 D: 2006 5: Harley-Davidson experienced huge growth in production to 3,200 in 1910, this was…

There I was, somewhere along a dusty and chaotic road in Nepal, riding the final stretch of a two-week motorcycle tour in 2018. The journey had taken me through awe-inspiring landscapes of Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, and Muktinath. I was tired, filthy, and riding a Chinese-made 250 cc Crossfire dirt bike that was, like most dirt bikes, way too tall for me. Every stop was a balancing act, with one foot barely reaching the ground and the other hooked over the seat like I was practicing a yoga half-moon or tree pose. Making things even harder were uneven roads cluttered with cows, chickens, children, tuk-tuks, and colourful buses blasting musical horns. My eyes were tired from constantly scanning for places I could get a foot down when stopped, and my clutch…

When David Booth says airbag vest technology is the greatest advancement in rider safety, I’m paying attention. I’ve been active on the racetrack since 1999; half of that time has been actual road racing and, after a friend broke some ribs crashing my race bike, I started looking more seriously at this airbag technology. Airbag vests come in a multitude of styles now, and the ones that have appealed to me are the ones that do not rely on a tether to detonate the vest but rather an electronic algorithm that triggers circuitry on the vest to detect a crash. These are self-contained units without wires and rely on a cell phone app to put the vest in Ready Mode, and a charged battery, which is built into the vest.…

I took my first spring ride much later than usual this year. I’m normally itching to get a bike out as soon as the snow melts and the roads are free of sand and salt. But on the last day of March this year, we experienced a lot of rain and freezing temperatures in my part of Canada. The resulting ice storm and wind dropped thousands of trees, which wiped out power lines, destroyed cars, and caused huge property damage. Luckily, we were only without electricity for a few days, and used a small generator to run the fridge and microwave. The real damage happened to my off-road school. Thousands of trees fell across our forested trails, and it was a daunting and heartbreaking task to clean it up. My…

To be fair, my ignorance of the blues was at least partially systemic. Despite emancipation and federally legislated integration for African Americans, lingering de facto segregation meant that many whites didn’t know — and didn’t want to know — about the lives of Black people, let alone their music. Sure, white musicians eventually bridged the gap by adapting the blues to create jazz, country, pop, and rock. But I was born in the sixties, after much of the groundwork was done, I’d never even heard of early Black artists like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Henry Stuckey. Each had laid a foundation for the music of my youth — and I didn’t know a single one. All that was about to change, however, as Mississippi took me back to school.…

Carl and I met in the mid 1980s due to our common interest in motorcycles, and we’ve remained friends ever since. He road raced in the ’80s and ’90s, and although auto racing diverted his interest away from motorcycles for a couple of decades, he’s always had motorcycles. Ten years ago, a deeper interest in motorcycles reignited, and during a discussion among friends, he inquired about maybe buying a new bike — something special that would perhaps have some future significance. He had a budget of about $25K, and he’d narrowed down his search to two bikes: An Aprilia RSV4 RR or a Ducati 1299 Panigale. His collective support group (his riding friends) weighed in on the pros and cons of each bike, and discussed which one could possibly evolve…

You don’t find many true motorcycle artisans anymore. Oh, Alan Millyard can seemingly craft a V12 superbike out of some junkyard 50-cc minibike engines and there are countless East Indian YouTube “mechanics” reminding us that repairing a broken crankshaft really takes nothing more than chewing gum and a few judicious bangs from some ancient artifact of a mallet. But, other than that, finding someone who bends, welds or otherwise creates something out of nothing — or, more appropriate for the problem I had, re-bends, re-welds and re-creates something apparently interminably broken — is rare in these new digital times. I found this out the hard way. I have a Honda CB1100R frame. Actually, I have two. Now, never mind that Honda CB1100R frames are as rare as hen’s teeth (I…