May 2009 Archives - Page 2 of 3

CMI Imports Peugeot and SYM

CMI (Canada Motor Import) has inked a deal with French company Peugeot and SYM scooter manufacturer from Taiwan to import their respective scooters into Canada. Peugeot is a prestigious brand with a...

Goodbye Eldorado

Elmer stepped back to let me into his house. The first thing I saw was myself in his full-length mirror. The glass, like the rest of the house, was brand-new clean. No streaks, no lingering smell of...

May Is Motorcycle Awareness Month – Let’s Be Careful Out There!

As spring begins to break across the country, the days are getting warmer and the rains are washing off our roads. Both are important acts of Mother Nature for those eager to safely pursue their...

The Milepost – Don’t Leave For the Great White North Without It!

The Alaska Highway, like many of the highways in the northwest, are marked every mile by mileposts, Mile 0 being the beginning of the highway. Billboards display where a business is by a number, and...

13 Port Dover – A Photo Journal

They say that every picture tells a story and there really is no reason to doubt that statement, especially after looking at a photo journal book based solely on Canada’s largest biker event,...

Smooth is Fast: Benefits of Being Relaxed While Riding

We ride because we enjoy the freedom of the open road. We ride because we love the feeling of being a part of the environment, with the wind in our ears and the endlessness of the sky. And we ride...

Revenge of the Fifty Foot Biker Movie

The way that the entertainment industry has treated motorcycles and motorcycle culture has often, I think, been at odds with its true nature. This is of course true in most forms of...

Rider Crosses Canada in Winter to Raise Diabetes Awareness

His friends and family thought he was crazy, but he was determined to pursue this awareness ride. On January 1 of this year, Mike Cole, outfitted with heated clothing, mounted his stock 1995...

February Fix

I woke up at 06:00 this morning when this long forgotten tiny shimmer of light crept across my face. Call it an internal time clock or just a fluke, but one eye creaked open and peered out at the...

From the Wild Side – To the Nice Side

Honda has a reputation for being fairly conservative in the styling department. They have a history of not ‘rocking the boat’ so to speak in the way of design and stay focused on the...

Say What?

Hi Glenn, Great talking to you at the Vancouver Motorcycle Show. The motorcycle of the show for me was the “Warbird”. Great ingenuity, superb execution and beautiful classic lines. I have just...

The Way of the Future? Zero Motorcycle

It’s no surprise to anyone that the volatility of gas prices, especially in the summer of 2008, had people scrambling for a more economical way to travel. Speed limits were more likely to be...