Hard and Soft – Adventure Riding BC’s Sunshine Coast
B.C.’s Sunshine coast is no stranger to riders, so how to spice things up. Great food, great accommodations, a good measure of adventure, and a motorcycling celebrity know for his work on Race to Dakar and Long Way Round. No, not Charley or that other guy.
An Adventure Motorcyclist’s Guide to Riding the Dempster Highway – Part 2
In Part 1 of An Adventure Motorcyclist’s Guide to Riding the Dempster Highway we covered the basics of preparing for your ride to the Western Canadian Arctic. Now in part two, we’ll cover the critical information you need for the Dempster itself, and that starts with fuel.
An Adventure Motorcyclist’s Guide to Riding the Dempster Highway – Part 1
It’s winter, the motorcycle adventurer’s planning season. If you’re dreaming of the Yukon, grizzlies, tundra and Inuvik, NWT, we’ve the “How to guide” for you. OutDrive.ca presents our essential practical guide of hard learned tips and tricks for riding the Dempster, Canada’s only all-season highway to cross the Arctic Circle.
Packing Light – The Best Gear for Adventure Part II
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.
Packing Light – The Best Gear for Adventure!
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.
Coping with Ice
It’s the first big spring ride and you’ve been out on your middle-weight adventure bike for a few days. Now after a hard night in your 4-star tent you’ve awoken to snow and ice. Catastrophe? Well, no. Let’s say we learned a bit about riding on unexpectedly icy during our F800GS test and video shoot, [...]
Ducati North West 2007: Nine Turns
Coming into turn 9 at Portland International Raceway, the host track for MotoCorsa’s 2007 Ducati North West, Adam Faussett (#240) on the Ducati 1098 runs onto the track exit lane, then tips-in. From my perspective Adam’s trajectory arcs across a section of cement patchwork, cuts perilously close to the red and white candy-striped shoulder, eases [...]
Mr. Domenicali’s Opus 1098
Here is a name you should know, Claudio Domenicali. When it comes to selling off a few spare organs or checking the black market index to determine the value of your children this spring it’s likely going to be Mr. Domenicali to blame. That’s because as Ducati’s head of new product development Mr. Domenicali is being touted as [...]
Laguna Seca MotoGP – Behind the Paddock’s Curtain
After 40 minutes of ruthless 40C sun I’m moto-journalist jerky as I play tabloid photographer waiting to grab shots of MotoGP riding royalty. Without media accreditation I’m as close as the paddock pass begged from Calgary’s Revoluzione would take me. Danny Pedrosa has come out, as has Nicky Haden and perhaps the camera is foreshadowing [...]
Another Perspective – Photos By Justin Mastine-Frost
Above the fog’s ceiling the weather is crisp, cold and clean, a pure reward for those braving November’s inclement assaults on the west coast’s concept of winter. The Multistrada 620′s engine thrums in the bike’s lanky chassis, looking as odd in this environment as any other. From the waist up the Multistrada 620 is a [...]
West Coast Superbike School Reviewed
Track aficionados might turn their noses up at doing an Advanced Rider Training course in a convention centre parking lot… and that would be their loss. Welcome to the Westcoast Superbike School, run in the parking lot of the Abbotsford TradeX centre, which makes for a very small and tight course. One that could teach [...]
National Motorsports Leads the Hyosung Charge
We’ve been hearing the cry for a while now, “The Koreans are coming! The Koreans are coming!” This spring, National Motorsports is leading the charge in Canada, bringing the Hyosung mark to our shores. Why all the excitement over the Comet 650, the Comet 250 and the GT650S? Industry types are looking to the Korean [...]
Moto Art – Beautiful Precision
Vancouverite Thierry Tanguy’s Moto Art brings something new to the motorcycle enthusiast, shots of beautiful precision that take the mechanical design elements of both present day and historic motorcycles and elevates them into the realm of art. To our eye anyway. That being said we’ll let Thierry and his art speak for themselves. MotoArt – [...]
The NCR Millona – Quicksilver Beauty at a Standstill
It’s sublime. Even standing still it has the look of mercury in motion. At its heart a Ducati engine, the 1000 DS to be precise, the same engine that motivates the Multi-Strada, and that is where the resemblance pretty much ends. Because where the Multi-Strata is meant for “many roads”, this bike, the NCR Millona, [...]
Ducati 999 – Learning Curve
I’m getting to live a dream, and at the moment it doesn’t matter. Why? Because when I last looked I was going 270kph down the front straightaway of Portland International Raceway. And I, being a bit daft, didn’t keep an eye on the braking markers the last three times through – I got caught up [...]
DNW2004 – A Day of Pompone and House
Dance and house music pump out across the vendor area, and in that alone you know this is a different type of motorcycle gathering. Then, it starts, what was house is given a new beat, and then drown out completely by the “pompone”. The thunderous cadence of L-Twins firing up on the “starting grid”. This [...]
