January 2008 - Motorcycle Mojo

It Followed Me Home…Honest

I love all bikes, but I have a special fondness for old ones that need a good home. I can’t think of a time in my life when I wasn’t looking for my next bike. Since having a ride on Gordon...

RNR Custom Cycle

ONTARIO, CANADA “We make it happen”… they’re not lying! When RNR Custom Cycle Ltd. of Guelph, Ontario started out over 12 years ago, the business was based on a simple philosophy: trust...

Connery’s Custom Paint

ONTARIO, CANADA The Webster’s dictionary defines destiny as, “a predetermined course of events.” Brothers, John and Dave Connery, may have had a predetermined destiny from the moment Dave...

Bad Ass Customs

ALBERTA, CANADA There are few bike builders better known than Indian Larry; the two-wheeled wonders he created are legendary. Though Indian Larry’s untimely death in 2004 was a tragic loss to the...

Extending the Season

This season was kind of weird for me. I couldn’t get my fill of two-wheeled time. I rode, then I wanted to ride some more. Maybe I was in need of therapy, or conversely maybe riding was my therapy,...

Stopping Fast

I’ve seen it happen on more than one occasion, motorcyclists making all sorts of detrimental errors while attempting to make an emergency stop. I’ve watched riders lock-up the rear tire so...

Triumph Tiger …On the Prowl

There was a time that all motorcycles played the same game, regardless of what they were asked to do. When you went to your local dealership to buy a bike you didn’t have to decide what type of...

Skinned Knuckles and Late Nights

Canadian Custom Showcase is Motorcycle Mojo’s first Collector’s Edition. Inside these pages you’ll find some of Canada’s brightest stars of the custom motorcycle industry. I have given...

XV1900 Yamaha

History has a habit of constantly repeating itself by bringing back what-once-was, but quite often in a slightly different and modern form, and always better than the previous era. Many things can be...

Say What?

Glenn and Gwen, Enclosed is my renewal of Motorcycle Mojo for two years. You will recall one of your first issues, you ran a picture of my wife and two children on my police bike taken in 1964 and...

Canadian Hall of Fame Awards

Soirée: “An evening party or reception.” Theme: Motorcycles and the really famous people that ride them. P.S. Don’t wear leathers. The 2007 Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame Inductee...

Seven Turns

Recently we received an article, which is printed in this issue from a girl by the name of Cheryl Lewis. I’m calling her a ‘girl’ instead of woman as this is the recollection I have of her....