The Latest Breaking News from CanAm

I remember how much fun it was playing in the mud as a kid. Hell, I still do it as an adult with my own kids. Last week, we were streaking through some mud holes with my daughter's ATV and loving it. 

There's something you should know about me, if you don't already. Although I've been riding motorcycles for close to 20 years, my riding has probably been about 99% street.

There's been a two-way fight amongst the world's go-fast, send-it UTVs for the past half decade, and that's been one fought between Can-Am and Polaris. The two manufacturers have enjoyed their tit-for-tat gamesmanship, one-upping each other each year with more suspension travel, more beefy tires, more tech, and more speed…

There's no shortage of news on KTM at present. The Austrian motorcycle brand has increasingly become the topic of everyone's conversation as, well, they done screwed up. And screwed up badly. 

I've been on this drumbeat for ages now, but modern pickups are just too expensive. Too expensive to purchase, too expensive to maintain, and too expensive to fix when you break something. I see it all the time in my little hamlet. Folks with HD and half-tons that look immaculate.…

For many years Formula 1 tried and failed to connect with the US audience, but all that has changed in the last decade. Burgeoning interest is now served by three grands prix on US soil and an American team on the grid – with another one about to join. Cadillac is…

Let's just check the stock market, which I haven't checked in hours, and oh my god, why is everything deep in the red? What happened? Did a nuke just get set off in London? Did that dumb boat get stuck in the Suez Canal again? Did aliens come down from…

The great Lotus designer Colin Chapman once remarked, "Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere. Simplify, then add lightness." 

King of the Hammers is, for lack of a better word, batshit. For those who've never heard of it, it's an off-road race in California's Johnson Valley, and marries rock crawling with flat-out open desert racing. There's nothing else on the planet like King of the Hammers. 

One of the first years we had our Can-Am Maverick X3, I took my wife and three kids into the woods in the middle of winter. We'd already run a few snowy trails that season and were heading to a spot we could take the kids sledding deep in the…

We know Can-Am has at least two more platforms to place its ingenious liquid-cooled electric motorcycle powertrain into. The shape these platforms will take remains to be seen. But we've just found a patent that could show us what the next motorcycle from the Canadian manufacturer will look like.The problem is,…