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For motorcycle enthusiasts in the US last week, it was a bittersweet time. On the one hand, a short holiday week, which is always nice. On the other, the passing of two certifiable North American motorcycle racing legends. Malcolm Smith left this world on November 26, at the age of…

In an era where we have countless public lands enemies, whether its mining operations, mass logging, housing developers, federal and state governments, among many others, I didn't have cults on my Bingo card. Yet, here we are. 

BMW Motorrad has just pulled the covers off of its 2025 F 900 road bikes, and I’m sorry, I just can’t wrap my head around the Sport colorway on the F 900 R. It’s loud, eye-catching, and maybe even gaudy. It immediately reminds me of Captain America’s colors, and quite…

There's always money in the banana stand, or so I hear.Well, maybe that's true if you're a member of the Bluth family, but that's not the case for KTM. If you're a member of KTM, just substitute "MotoGP program" for "banana stand" and you'll more or less have what's happening here.…

Italian off-road motorcycle specialist Beta has a knack for making versatile, well-rounded machines. Personally, I was quite impressed with the approachability and versatility of the XTrainer. From grassroots 125 enduro bikes, all the way to race-winning big-bore MX machines, the Florence-based marque has off-road performance coursing through its veins.

As much as I believe the racing in MotoGP has been absolutely awesome to behold in recent years, the fact that Ducati is just always winning, either from the works team or its satellites, gets a bit boring. Yay, another Ducati on the podium!

We humans are an inherently wasteful species, and nowhere is this more evident than today. Everything from single-use plastics to disposable electronics are a living testament to this. The sad reality is that a lot of us simply don’t care about how our actions affect the planet, not just for…

If you've spent any time in the past year hanging out in the motorcycle corner of the internet, you've probably seen a Matt Spears video or two by now. If he's not enduro riding his old Gold Wing, he's taking a Hayabusa to Moab just because he can.

Like Fight Club, there are rules to thievery. First, you don't ever talk about your thievery. That one is shared with Fight Club. But there's also a second rule, something Fight Club doesn't have: Always have the faster vehicle. At least if you're going to use it to A) get away…

Finland remains on my bucket list of places to go, albiet for some particularly "me" reasons. See, as much as Finland is gorgeous, full of hospitable people, caribou I'd love to hunt, and the Northern Lights, if you want to learn any sort of motorsport, really learn it, you go to…

You don't need to see dashcam videos from halfway around the world to know that sometimes, people drive extremely poorly.There are a number of reasons for this. Maybe they're just bad at it, or they're not paying attention, or they're having a bad day. And on a personal level, the…