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Harley-Davidson has discontinued Buell and is divesting itself of MV Agusta, the Italian sport bike company it purchased last year. In doing so did Harley-Davidson just throw away its future? Cowichan Valley rider Don Hatton, has entered the 2009 Morocco Rally set to start October 19, 2009, as he charts his return to Dakar after sever injury. Stewart, B.C. - We are overlooking the Salmon Glacier, on a road that curls up the ridges overtop of the great flowing track of ice driven forward by its own weight. In the sun it dazzles the eye, gliding imperceptibly around a corner, with race stripes of medial moraine rock debris giving it black curves like a remnant alien roadway from the last ice age. The GSI Pinnacle Dualist camping cookset was a bit of an impulse buy the day prior to Jake Moritz's departure on a 16 days on the road, 5051 miles trip across the US and Canada. Here's how it faired. Five years after the introduction of the original Rocket Three, a bike that could loose two of its cylinders and still have proper displacement, comes the Rocket III Roadster - with 6 more horsepower, 14% more torque, ABS, revised ergonomic, suspension and the same massive 2,294cc three-cylinder engine. Triumph Press Release and gallery follows... The print motorcycle magazine industry is not a healthy thing. British magazines like Bike and TWO (now VisorDown taking the name of the magazines website) have developed content bulimia, shedding pages on a free-fall purge, ... 16 days on the road, 5051 miles and a 1994 Honda VFR 750 – OWD contributor Jake Moritz crossed the continent putting the latest camping gear to a motorcycle specific test. This week, putting the squeeze on your gear with Sea to Summit eVent Compression Dry sacks. While the Adventure world waits on Ducati’s upcoming big-trailie, another Bologna firm, Moto Morini, has got on with updating their offering, the Granpasso, for 2010, concentrating on ergonomic changes and off-road handling improvements to the ... Suzuki’s back into enduro in a big way for 2010 with the new RMX450Z, a bike that claim is “descended from the Championship winning RM-Z450”. And from the spec sheets, it’s looking like there’s ... Ducati has launched Multistrada.Ducati.com, ending the speculation as to the name of the companies upcoming Multistrada replacement - the Mulitstrada 1200. Not "Strada Aperta" or Cayenne as some have speculated. Pause video and do some image enhancement as we've done and you've a tantalizing glimpses of the Multistrada 1200. Generally there is a gentleman's an embargo between a manufacturer and a media outlet, but Motorcycle.com has published a number of 2010 Multistrada 1200 (not the Strada Aperta) specifications in a preview. Here's the rundown of the one's we think have credibility... British Columbian motorcycle rally racer, Don Hatton has finished in fourth place in the Enduro class in the 2009 NPO Shamrock Rally de Maroc / Rally of Morocco.
The Rally of Morocco was run over six ... 16 days on the road, 5051 miles and a 1994 Honda VFR 750 – OWD contributor Jake Moritz crossed the continent putting the latest camping gear to a motorcycle specific test. This week, the MSR Hubba Hubba 2-person tent gives us shelter. By commenting on Motorcycle.com’s “leak” of the Multistrada 1200 this week, formerly known to the public as the Strada Aperta or Cayenne, we’ve been assailed by a storm of Internet traffic. So much so we’ve had to install a caching system to keep http://OneWheelDrive.Net up, running and vaguely responsive. This has me thinking about notoriety, the Internet and integrity. We’re off course, and we don’t need a map or GPS to tell us so. We’re headed south-west rather than north-west thanks to a wrong turn off of the Blackwater Forest Service Road and onto ... In part three of OWD Advertising Executive Jennifer Priest’s new rider series the Pacific Riding School takes her to the streets, where Jen finds herself well prepared for the obligatory close call with a Vancouver driver. On a good day the road from Dease Lake to Telegraph Creek, BC is an ethereal dirt cavort through scenery composed of precipitous canyons sheered into lava by erosive rivers. Add one night of rain and it goes from being one the world’s greatest driveways to one of the most terrifying. In part four of OWD Advertising Executive Jennifer Priest’s new rider series, she lands her license, but learns an important lesson about intuition and riding. By the term “highway”, don’t confuse the Dempster with the paved varicosities that strangle our modern world. A product of its environment this is a filament of the south sent out like an infection, and the land does its best to fight it off. So you want to motorcycle the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, NWT? If you we're smart you'd wait for a couple of nice dry days, but we never claimed to be smart. We head out onto the fabled road in the rain to experience its worst as we ride beyond the Arctic Circle... A Globe and Mail article on the health benefits of Dirt Riding leads to a thread of comments underlying the prejudices of self-propelled trail users against responsible motorcyclists. We think the solution may start with being better ambassadors while on our workouts.
Leaving It was all of a bit sudden, but when the opportunity to ride Australia as very extended adventure calls you don’t turn it down, you don’t flinch, question or hesitate either. You just hop ...
Get your stars and stripes on with Ducati as the Italian firm celebrates the 4th of July with its own all American boy, the Nicky Haden Edition 848, which will be unveiled at the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Following KTM's withdrawal from the ASO's "Dakar" Rally due a ruling limiting motorcycles to 450ccs, the Austrian manufacturer will be supporting customers participating in Africa Eco Race 2010.
BMW Motorrad Canada has announced the arrival of the BMW S 1000 RR Supersports in Canadian showrooms in early 2010 at a competitive MSRP of $16,800.00 CAD.
Back-country enthusiast, lifetime rider, mountaineer, hiker, and outdoor retailer, Jayson Faulkner, offers advice to save wayward adventure motorcyclists from being buried under an avalanche… of their own gear! Here’s how to travel light without forgoing comfort be it for a weekend or for months on the road.
A bit of a video departure for us as we bring you the sights and sounds of ADVRider.com's 2009 BC Big Tralie Ride 4. So, grab a coffee, turn the screen away from the cubical entrance and revel in BC's best adventure riding scenery.
LEAMINGTON, On. (July 20, 2009) –Deeley Harley-Davidson/ Clare's Harley-Davidson of Niagara sponsored Donald Taylor dominates the first long track event on the Canadian Motorcycle Association 2009 flat track schedule at Leamington Fairgrounds.
BMW Motorrad announces the R 1200 R “Touring Special”, expanding the 109 bhp naked “Boxer” flat twin’s comfort and travel/touring qualities and a slight facelift.
Back-country enthusiast, lifetime rider, mountaineer, hiker, and outdoor retailer, Jayson Faulkner, offers advice to save wayward adventure motorcyclists from being buried under an avalanche… of their own gear! Here’s how to travel light without forgoing comfort be it for a weekend or for months on the road. This week the evil that is cooking.
Being a new rider doesn’t mean you have to learn the hard way as OWD Advertising Executive Jennifer Priest heads to Pacific Riding School to fulfil her dream of a bike and license in Part One of four.
How quickly do we forget what it’s like to be a new rider? The accumulation of experience can eventually drown out the novelty of riding and wonder of what a motorcycle can do and ...
In part two of OWD Advertising Executive Jennifer Priest’s new rider series the Pacific Riding School puts her on course to a bike and license with a lot of practice in a lot.
With a personal riding history is littered with a disturbing pattern of rough departures, the OWD team heads north for the Arctic Circle, after a very slow start.
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