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In short, big difference between a "ride report" of a sponsored ride, and a ride report of a couple of buds paying for everything out of pocket. The difference is the money, and when the Marketing Dept. spends money, it comes with expectations.

Does any of this apply to the two generations of 650cc singles BMW made after the original funduro? I rode for two weeks straight of 40+ celcius weather with no issues, and my voltage always in range (I have a little voltage display add on to make sure my android auto unit + charging my phone...

Pics? Sure. Location: Moto Guzzi factory museum - Mandello del Lario, Italy. Time: Seconds before I made a stupid joke, our first ride across Italy, 2023. Location: Same Time: Seconds after I made a stupid joke. You can do almost anything with a woman, except bore her, so grab her hand...

Want to hear two more? My first experience with VOS was when they tried to sell me a V-Rod exhaust pipe years ago, when I asked if it fit my Night Rod variant they said yes. You know that feeling you get when you're talking to someone about motorcycles, and realize they don't actually know a...

Carlo at Moto Motori is a wizard. Can't go wrong bringing a bike to him.

Just here in Toronto alone: Studio Cycle: Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Husqvarna Powersports TO: Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Triumph Snow City Cycle: Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki

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As long as people are aware. Thing is, and I say this with a Triumph Speed 400 in my garage, people get that the Speed 400 is a budget bike built to a price point with budget components, and no one's saying they're on par with the average Japanese street bike. Whereas many RE fanboys and their...

Not one of FortNine's best videos ever, but as the owner of two BMW G650GS (the on road version of the generation after this one), this video tickled my heart: I think anyone with a KLR/DR/CRF 650 will appreciate it as y'all just get the 650 thumper vibe (literally). This is basically the...

Same! Mine are like ten years old, they came with two sets, so once I switched to custom made ear plugs, I gave these to the missus to use. She uses them on our rides across Italy and also finds them really comfortable. I don't even have to remind her to pack them, they're just part of her...

If planned obsolescence was really part of the BMW engineering philosophy, whoever designed the funuro 650cc/F650GS single/G650GS single that they made for a quarter century was surely fired, and then re-hired just so they could fire him again to get out of paying him severance. Fortnine just...

I believe them. And other lies I tell myself.

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Or a sign that they owe money to the manufacturers and can't offer warranty work anymore because the manufacturer won't refund the dealer until the dealer is all paid up. I'm not suggesting that is the case, but I know when a GTA dealer was closing a few years ago I couldn't get them to order...

This. Along with what @Scuba Steve wrote. Talk to your insurance company to see what they have to say. If your garage is detached like mine you're ok for by-law. But okay for by-law doesn't mean your insurance won't be looking for a cop out not to pay out of there's a fire so talk to them...

After working in marketing in the motorcycle industry I have seen too much of how Inside Motorcycles operates to trust anything they write about any bike. I don't know if it's the same people in charge now, but back in 2011-2014, Ad spend = positive reviews for sale over there.

Too late!

100%. Location and use is so, so important. I love both of my G650GS, but I hate being a BMW owner. If I wasn't doing all my long distance riding specifically in Europe, I would've gone Japanese too. BUT This summer on my third ride across Italy, I lost all power on the highway (later found...

A trip that size and that remote is all the more reason to get something where international dealer supply chain is strong and plentiful, like Honda. Not sketchy and haphazard like Royal Enfield. I saw your reply to me a couple posts above. I asked why, of all the wonderful motorcycles, from...