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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Joan Mir is the 2020 MotoGP world champion, Suzuki’s first since 2000, when Kenny Roberts Junior followed Senior’s footsteps to become MotoGP’s only father/son world champions. And, just so you...

Size Matters

I am, frankly, the luckiest guy on earth. This being Motorcycle Mojo’s touring issue, it is chock-a-block of far-flung destinations visited and remote corners of the Earth adventured. With the...

Relearning Forgotten Skills

I am 63 years of age. Being something of a gym rat, I still box four days a week. Sufficiently caffeinated, I can still run up a ski hill – albeit the bunny run and at something of a slower pace...

Radar of the Future

There was once a time when motorcycles were more advanced than automobiles. Double overhead cams were more common on bikes long before cars. Ditto four-valve heads. Hell, even though bikes turned out...

Finding Warm Comfort

I appear to be aging in reverse. No, I am not undergoing some kind of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button reverse aging process, although I did take up the world’s most demanding – or at least...

Not my Dad. My Mom

It was my mom who got me into motorcycling. Yeah, that surprised me too. I had been pleading for a minibike for some two years — an eternity to a 13-year-old with ADD — with all the resolve, like...

It Takes a Village

It may take a village to raise a child, but if the past 18 months of scrounging for parts is any indication, it takes an entire planet to rebuild a 1982 Honda CB1100R. Now, I know what you’re...

What We Want?

Every year, the motorcycling world gathers at the Esposizione Internazionale Ciclo Motociclo e Accessori – better know to us bikers as EICMA. The EICMA is the most important motorcycle show in the...

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

Here’s a tip for all you DIYers looking to beef up your suspension with a new Fancy Dan multi-adjustable rear shock: all the damping adjustments in the world won’t matter a whit if your spring...