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The whole weekend is a motorrad event. The demos book out very early, there were lineups and sad grey bearded faces at 9:30. Last year they had Mattie Griffin stunt riding...

Grom comes from the California slang for young surfer kid, grommet, or grom. Bikes aren't sold like cars, they can take years to sell off some production runs, and when sales stagnate due to local used availability, they just stop selling for a few years. Weak market for 125s. If there was a...

Most countries do not allow right turn on red, even many states and provinces. Speed limits and red-turning are about societies that have more pedestrians in cities. With the population density in major European cities, most people don't drive to get around, they walk or use transit and the long...

The reality of globalization is that few companies make all the accessory parts in house or locally any more. There are lots of parts of Triumps that are interchangeable with Japanese bikes, and shared across the lines. It doesn't make sense any other way and problems occur when they make too...

It was edge of seat stuff, 101% efforts. At one point, I thought Marquez and Lorenzo would take each other out and Rossi would grab the win. Moto3 was a complete crap shoot.. it was insane to have to watch mechanics swap wheels while the riders tumbled down the order. Rossi needs to figure...

Too exciting for the GTA. Interest in motorcycle racing wanes more and more every year. Yet hundreds of bars show golf live.

Merging is night and day between Europe and Canada. In Europe, people understand that merging early, and allowing cars to merge moves traffic faster. Failure to yield is enforced in Europe. Here, people use merge lanes as passing lanes, and encounter people who block them from merging, because...

Looks like lane splitting is on the ropes in Cali. http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-lane-splitting-bill-withdrawn-20150709-story.html The problem is the speed delta. 15 mph would have been the law, but most bikes exceed this.

A lot of Asian factories sell manufactured QC rejects on eBay. I would not trust any date stamp on that stuff.

Thruxton motors are tanks. I don't think they will be air cooled for much longer when Euro4 takes effect.

Last year, Honda and Suzuki were there with BMW. This year, Honda does not list event, only Suzuki. https://www.suzuki.ca/en/demo-rides

They don't actually have much. They list a lot of stuff on their website they can't sell. When you place an order, they contact the distributor to check for availability, and a few days later you get an email. They don't actually stock most items. I tried to make 6 difference purchases off the...

A lot of their lines are on sale, the new lines are coming in September. This is the time of year they start selling out on typical sizes. I don't get why people buy from them, when you do all the math, especially if you factor in a return, they are expensive. Right now the CDN distributors...

I would not trust that thing. It's a cheap, heavy Chinese bike with power, yet using standard Supercycle-grade cable brakes. This is the garbage they sell at Walmart and Crapadian Tire.

A safety inspection is about parameters of safety on the bike: brakes, rubber, lights, head and swingarms, etc. You could have a pretty abused bike still pass safety, especially since there are hacks who will safety anything for a quick $60-80.

The one response in this thread that makes sense. OP: upload close pictures of the pegs, brake discs and grips, we can tell you if it really has 6000Km. The UVIP is telling you the bike has been safety certified 5 times, with 5 ownership transfers. 250s are impulse buys and turnover quickly...

Stock exhausts on a motorcycle? I heard of such unicorns. We had this issue in rural Ancaster, and I talked to the radar cops. They follow the noise, and they are only there hiding in the bushes typically because of local noise complaints, not because of safety concerns. Safety is why they are...

If you want real power increases for racing, it takes the whole package to take advantage of the flow. We're talking street bikes here, and even with a weightless mythical pipe at best you can figure a 3-4% weight drop in the total package. For the cost of full systems, plus ECU flashing or...

And its getting stupider, like BMW distinguishing models by the number of "RR"s. Harley figured it all out, just name bikes after condoms.

Yes, not like the geniuses who tool around those roads with their Akras well into the night. This isn't about kids, it's about people subjected to noise insults by self-entitled a-holes.