Issues

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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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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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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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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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...
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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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May Angels Bring You Home
How a tragic crash made a doctor think twice about motorcycles, but ultimately reaffirmed his decision to keep riding. Soccer Saturday. We were all packed into the minivan driving north on the...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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Why I Ride
When life throws you a curve (ball), get out there and ride it. I recently came across an old photograph of my grandmother when she was about 14 or 15 years old. In the picture, she was sitting on a...
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