
May 2025
We ride the 2025 Ducati Multistrada V2 S, in addition to travel and educational features. Buy the issue...
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Bike Reviews
Setting A New Benchmark
A completely redesigned Multistrada V2 for the mid-displacement crossover market is the lightest in its category. Ever since its release in 2003, the Ducati...
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Bike Reviews
Contemporary Cool
A confidence-inspiring bike for new riders but entertaining enough for the experienced rider. In 2022, to better align the Street Twin with its bigger, sportier brother, the Speed Twin 1200, Triumph...
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May 2025
From Darkness to Light
A 9,700 km coast-to-coast journey with The Rolling Barrage to dispel the stigma of PTSD. Scott Casey, the founder of The Rolling Barrage, served in the...
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May 2025
Summer Romance
Riding the breadth of Canada’s westernmost province. I had a summer affair! With a Honda SCL500 Scrambler. My excuse I needed to get to the Horizons Unlimited Travellers Meeting in Nakusp and my...
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May 2025
Freedom Road
Riding through history in the Deep South. The open road. For many, it is the very definition of freedom. Obligations are left behind as we imagine the adventure and spontaneity waiting around the...
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May 2025
The Moment Collectors ASIA
Twenty adventurous travellers, 20 stories of adventure. The Moment Collectors Asia is the second compilation book put together by Sam Manicom with stories...
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Brappy Thoughts
Zen and the Art of Bailing
Although no rider ever wants to find themselves getting intimate with the dirt, knowing how to fall is one of the most unspoken and inevitably important skills you can learn if you plan on riding...
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May 2025
The Inertial Measurement Unit
This modern wizardry helps to keep your bike upright, and you off the pavement. Rider assist systems like ABS and traction control have become almost universal in motorcycles. ABS itself has been...
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Features
Getting Your Bike Out of Storage
Performing that initial spring check-over is important, and also not complicated. By the time you read this, you may already have your bike out and may have pounded a few hundred kilometres on it, as...
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What’s Next?
If you’ve read The Last Word at all lately, you’re probably aware that electric motorcycles have been an unmitigated failure so far. Unlike the auto industry, where the EVs have established...

The Moment Collectors ASIA
Twenty adventurous travellers, 20 stories of adventure. The Moment Collectors Asia is the second compilation book put together by Sam Manicom with stories...

Setting A New Benchmark
A completely redesigned Multistrada V2 for the mid-displacement crossover market is the lightest in its category. Ever since its release in 2003, the Ducati...
Read More-
Bike Reviews
Contemporary Cool
A confidence-inspiring bike for new riders but entertaining enough for the experienced rider. In 2022, to better align the Street Twin with its bigger, sportier brother, the Speed Twin 1200, Triumph...
Read More -
Bike Reviews
Striking A Balance
Spanning the gap between classic styling, and modern performance and handling. In 2019, I went to Mallorca to ride the then newly introduced Speed Twin. It was added to the Bonneville lineup to...
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Bike Reviews
The Evolution of Motorcycle Design
Fifty years later, Can-Am re-enters the motorcycle market. There’s been much anticipation for the new Can-Am Pulse and Origin electric motorcycles, but in an industry where gas-powered machines are...
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From Darkness to Light
A 9,700 km coast-to-coast journey with The Rolling Barrage to dispel the stigma of PTSD. Scott Casey, the founder of The Rolling Barrage, served in the...
Read More-
Travel
Summer Romance
Riding the breadth of Canada’s westernmost province. I had a summer affair! With a Honda SCL500 Scrambler. My excuse I needed to get to the Horizons Unlimited Travellers Meeting in Nakusp and my...
Read More -
Travel
Freedom Road
Riding through history in the Deep South. The open road. For many, it is the very definition of freedom. Obligations are left behind as we imagine the adventure and spontaneity waiting around the...
Read More -
Travel
Nothing But Corners
Exploring the Southern Appalachians. Aw $@#! The bike’s first scratch. Thinking that glamping might be fun, my buddy Gary and I were following a narrow road that wound through steep forests deep...
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The Moment Collectors ASIA
Twenty adventurous travellers, 20 stories of adventure. The Moment Collectors Asia is the second compilation book put together by Sam Manicom with stories...
Read More-
Product Reviews
MotoChic Lauren Sport
A helpful bag for when you need to carry a few things on your ride. It’s not often that I find myself reaching for a backpack before a ride that doesn’t include a water bladder and tools inside...
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Product Reviews
CKX Atlas Helmet
An affordable helmet with photochromic visor. I find myself doing more and more adventure riding, and finding the right helmet is tough. I relied on dirtbike helmets with goggles for years but...
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Product Reviews
Ducati 748 — On Road And Track
After Alan Cathcart’s bestselling pair of volumes recounting his experiences as the only journalist in the world to have track tested almost all of the factory Ducati Desmo V-twin Superbikes which...
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