May 2019 - Motorcycle Mojo

Western Canada’s Largest Motorcycle Festival happening June 2nd

Two Wheel Sunday one-day motorcycle street festival is happening June 2nd in Calgary. The sixth annual Two Wheel Sunday (2WS) takes place on a four-block stretch of Fifth Street N.E. from 10 a.m. to...

Triumph Motorcycles Announces Electric Motorcycle Project

Triumph Motorcycles announced the collaboration with UK industry experts and academic leaders to develop specialist motorcycle technology. Triumph Motorcycles is collaborating with Williams Advanced...

Two-Wheel Celebration

From partyers to racers, it takes all kinds of people to make Bike Week the festival that it is. The people who annually make the trek to Daytona Beach to cruise the streets call it Bike Week, while...

Texas Variety

Exploring the Lone Star State Big hats. Big boots. Big oil. Big guns. Perhaps more than any other state, Texas has its clichéd accretions. I had been here before, but not to explore. This time, as I...

The Classic Mistake

How the author became his own risk manager and started riding again. This is a story about my motorcycling journey: how I started, why I left and how I was able to come back to ride with greater joy...

Angling for Some Backcountry Adventure

What better way to spend 13 days off work than to tackle B.C.’s backcountry with your adventure bike and a fishing rod I leave central Vancouver Island mid-August on my 2013 KTM 990 Adventure Baja,...

Milwaukee’s Radical Power Cruiser

It may not fall into the touring or even daily rider category, but it definitely fits nicely into the segment of head-turner. When the first Harley-Davidson Softail hit showrooms in 1984, I was...

Class-Leading Performance

The big news here isn’t as much about the bikes as it is about the upgraded engine Aah … sunny, balmy Palm Springs, California. We’re here for a couple of days to ride the 2019 BMW R1250GS and...

First look at the 2019 Triumph Rocket 3 TFC

The much-anticipated, all-new Triumph Factory Custom Rocket 3 boasts a massive new 2,500cc Triumph Triple engine with 168 HP. Triumph’s legendary Rocket 3 launched in 2004, and was renowned...

Synchronizing Carburetors

Although carburetors have been replaced by more efficient fuel injection on modern motorcycles, there are still plenty of older, carburetted bikes out there. Carburetors require some periodic...