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Victory's NM-4: Remembering the Vision 800
A little more than 10 years ago, Victory Motorcycles revealed a concept bike that featured an 800cc liquid-cooled parallel twin engine, automatic transmission, and storage in the space where a tank...
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Living the Dream
I'm sitting in a hotel in Yorkshire as I write this — about 300 miles north of my home in Cardiff. Known as "God's own country" by locals, this region of England is rich in hills, curving roads, quaint...
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Long-term gear review: Corcoran Jump Boots
I wrote a post about Corcoran Jump Boots a few years ago, after about a year of use, but I thought it would be good to offer another review, now that I'm considering retiring my pair in favor of some...
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Ride Review: Harley-Davidson Street Glide Special
According to Harley-Davidson CEO Matt Levatich, roughly 80 percent of the bikes his company sells in the United States are touring models. Harley-Davidson sold 168,240 units in the U.S. market in 2015,...
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This will probably end in tears
Last week, Jason Fogelson published an article on RideApart about the infamous Iron Butt Association, the worldwide motorcycle "club" where membership is earned by riding a stupidly long distance in a...
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Gear review: TomTom Rider
The first thing to get out of the way in reviewing the TomTom Rider is to determine exactly which device we're talking about, since it goes by different names. The Rider 40, Rider 400 and Rider 410 are...
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My beef with Harley
It's an unfortunate truth of the internet that no matter what you say, somebody, somewhere will get upset about it. The persistence of that truth seems to increase roughly 1,000 percent when you say...
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Exploring the Scout Sixty's Irish Heritage
When several weeks of gentle pleading recently resulted in Indian Motorcycle handing me the keys to a Scout Sixty, I knew exactly where I wanted to go: Ireland.That's probably not what you were...
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Ride review: Indian Scout Sixty
When I was 21 years old, I decided I no longer cared about political science and dropped-out of classes at my dreary college in Northern Minnesota on the promise of working in a tourist trap at Lake...
View ArticleIn the Brecons
I know it's been a stupid long time since I last posted on this blog. That's because I seem to get busier every day. Some day I'll post here again. In the meantime, here's a video I shot yesterday in...
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Low-speed thrills
I think I'm getting old. Earlier this summer I bought a one-piece rain suit to go over my riding gear. Yes, I live in the United Kingdom, so it will get heavy use, but there's no getting around the...
View ArticleRiding the 2017 Harley-Davidson Road Glide
I shot this video back in late August/early September when I was on the Harley-Davidson press ride in Washington state, then forgot all about it until today. It was shot with a Sena 10C (the same...
View ArticleMr Grumpy Pants
The ancient Celts used to refer to the space between October and April in Britain as "The Long Dark." It's a miserable time of year, and it's just starting.
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2016 Honda CBR650F - Ride Review
Touring Sport: Scotland on a Honda CBR650FSummer in Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is more a state of mind than meteorological phenomenon. It can be 50F and raining...
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Doing an Iron Butt ride was utterly pointless
Back in June I took part in my first-ever Iron Butt ride.Ostensibly, I took part in the ride to help raise money for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal, a charity initiative that helps the UK’s...
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The race that won't stop killing
Five* racers were killed in 2016’s Isle of Man TT races. That’s a few more than average, but nothing anyone's getting uptight about; ferry bookings to attend next year’s event have already sold...
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Help Me Understand, America
Last summer I spent a month driving across the United States, exploring 10 states –– Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas –– in the iconic...
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2017 Harley-Davidson Road Glide – Ride Review
Sitting on the new Harley-Davidson Road Glide atop Hurricane Ridge last September, in the northern part of Washington’s Olympic National Park, the ridge was living up to its name.I was amid a small but...
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Review: 2017 Harley-Davidson Street Glide
Man, what a difference a year makes.You may remember I spent a day with the 2016 Harley-Davidson Street Glide Special in early spring, and the tl;dr version of that review is that I was not a huge fan...
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Review: 2017 Harley-Davidson CVO Limited
Back in autumn Harley-Davidson chose Washington state as the backdrop for the unveiling of its overhauled touring line-up (Read my reviews of the Road Glide and the Street Glide), but the company had...
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