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It's November and Suzuki just released its Q2 2024 financial report. If you're interested in the health of the motorcycle industry overall, the news here is strong and good, both regarding financial health and sales numbers. 

Helmets have advanced leaps and bounds throughout the years. These days we’re seeing lids incorporate all sorts of fancy tech and cutting-edge, super lightweight materials, all in a bid to improve comfort, safety, and overall performance.

Let me be clear, King of the Baggers is a cool-ass racing series. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 700-pound baggers done up to become race-spec bikes would've made for such nail-biting racing. It's just cool.

We’ve seen a whole bunch of engine swaps in the past, and a lot of them involve some kind of motorcycle engine being plucked out of a bike and stuffed into some other sort of vehicle. From R1-swapped golf carts to Hayabusa-swapped micro-cars, the internet is truly a wonderful place.

What do Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Honda, and Toyota have in common? Well, clearly, they’re all Japanese, and they’re among the biggest brands in their respective industries. They’re also paragons of reliability, with the Japanese Big Four’s bikes all known for being capable of surpassing six-digit odometers. And as for Toyota,…

The back half of 2024 has been a rough time for two of the newest bikes in Kawasaki's lineup: the 2024 Ninja 7 Hybrid ABS and the 2024 Z7 Hybrid ABS. In September, there was a stop sale, stop ride recall notice for an ECU issue with both bikes. And…

The divide between metric and imperial bikes is more than just different tool sets and measurement standards, as you're probably well aware. Still, this video from Paul Sr. and his crew at Orange County Choppers, as they get stuck into working on their build-off bike, makes the differences painfully clear.

As consumers, a lot of us try to get the most out of our money. It doesn’t matter if you’re shopping for bread at the grocery store or buying a car. The same is especially true when it comes to motorcycles, as well as all things associated with them.

I've lane-splitted or lane-filtered for years, decades, now. It's literally the only way to live when you have a motorcycle in Los Angeles. I'd hazard it's the only way to live in Los Angeles, period, as I detest sitting in traffic for hours upon hours just to go five miles. 

I don't know how you grew up, but one thing I remember very well about my grandfather is that he was one of those guys who liked doing things himself. Besides being the person who taught me to read and even made tapes of me reading at age three and…

[UPDATE November 21, 2024: It seems that the KTM dealership has edited the price tag of the 990 RC R following the initial posting of this story. It now carries a sticker price starting at £16,000, or about $20,250 USD. Not bad, but still a massive chunk of change for a…