Top tip for riding in the northern latitudes or in uncertain weather: get a yellow or amber visor/shield. It’ll be tinted enough to cut the worst of the sun during a clear day whilst boosting contrast to aid your vision at night or during storms.

You clearly need to be less subtle about these things.

Does that prominent air cleaner cause any problems?

My father, being the type, goes all Baja about it. He does a dry run of any service he reasonably expects to perform off in a ditch somewhere, then packs the tools he used to do the work. Anything unexpected can generally be bodged with whatever tools he’s brought along.

Yepperoni! I buy new bikes so I don’t have to work on them. Anything beyond a blown tyre will likely require a shop’s attention anyway.

I look at the phrase “every crash is the rider’s fault” the same way. The intended message is all well and good (there’s always a lesson to learn), but it comes across as needlessly crass and more often than not callouses the recipient against your point. This is particularly true of multi-vehicle accidents, when the…

Even those most basic details haven’t actually been confirmed; after all, the 701 Supermoto uses a different, older version of the LC4 single than the 690 Duke. If these bikes are just restyle jobs, why delay them so long as to risk their aesthetic becoming stale in the mean time? If there are notable changes under…

“Husqvarna will be ‘cold’ and ‘ice’,” anonymous KISKA representatives assured us, “by releasing Vitpilen 401 and 701 teasers, and then refusing to talk about them.”

This is the correct answer.

A somewhat popular modification for Zeros is to tweak the motor controller to add in a regen lever, so that you can set the app to freewheel and engage regen without the mechanical brakes whenever desired.

Dragon! Best team logo in all of racing, and possibly the tightest ship running in Formula E. A disintegrating track in Malaysia and the fragility of the Venturi package they’re using this season both contributed to a double DNF that wholly accounts for the points differential between them and the Renault and Audi…

Have done, can confirm. Ten bucks in beer beats twenty bucks in hand.

Does the belt drive feel different from a chain drive?

How’s the Simpson?

Kinda diggin’ those square mirrors.

I’d say the Low Rider S gives me hope for what they’ll do to rejuvenate the Sportster line, but considering they just tweaked that line with new suspension last year I wouldn’t expect much more than further cosmetic options in the near future.

The difference between a lame Harley and a deeply cool one is thirty thousand miles without a wash.

It had an unusual arrangement for the motor, mounted longitudinally underneath the battery pack with a ninety-degree bevel gear arrangement routing that power to the back wheel. Doing so allowed for a number of unique characteristics for the category: the motor itself could be much longer than would otherwise be…

Been keeping my eye on Saint and others for a while now. Motorcycles, to me, ultimately serve to facilitate and enrich the rest of my life, which means leaning heavily on gear that incorporates function and protection into daily use. Six hundred bucks for jeans looks much more reasonable when it can replace a pair of…

Bikes don’t kill riders, riders kill riders.

Or something.

I think the Yamaha looks better, which (given my abilities) is the only relevant difference between the two.