Published on November 24th, 2015 | by Boris
It was great and glorious relief not to have “work” a stand at the motorcycle show this year. My feet were grateful, as was my digestive system. There’s only so many gozleme and gourmet hot dogs... Read More →
Published on November 16th, 2015 | by Boris
My timing, as always, was excellent. It was late spring. The riding climate was optimal. Harley-Davidson had just poured its beaut 110-cubic-inch motor into two models from its Softail range, and wanted, quite rightly, to show... Read More →
Published on November 10th, 2015 | by Boris
Good question, huh? And one that everyone in the motorcycle magazine business asks of everyone else in the motorcycle magazine business in hushed tones; as if they were whispering state secrets to each other. Just recently,... Read More →
Published on November 7th, 2015 | by Boris
I’m not right in the head about the 48. I went to the launch when Harley first introduced the model, and spent the day belting around in teeming rain on what I thought then was one... Read More →
Published on November 2nd, 2015 | by Boris
We have become truly shameful. I can’t quite place my finger on when, exactly, we became so utterly disgusting, but it was not all that long ago. Being fat, safe and relatively well-off comes with a... Read More →
Published on October 31st, 2015 | by Boris
Spare a thought for your mechanic, or tech, as he is called in these modern and progressive times. It is a noble profession. An honest profession. A totally indispensable profession. So spare a thought for the... Read More →
Published on October 30th, 2015 | by Eva Cripps
In October 2013, former Premier Campbell Newman and his side-kick, Attorney General Jarrod Bleije, declared a War on Bikies. Their aim, backed up by a mass of draconian laws, was to get rid of bikies, and... Read More →
Published on October 28th, 2015 | by Boris
If you thought the 2015 MotoGP season couldn’t get any better after Sepang, you’d be wrong. In the wake of the stoush between Rossi and Marquez the motorcycle world seems to have exploded and shows no... Read More →
Published on October 27th, 2015 | by Boris
That roar. That impossible, bestial, thrumming roar. A rumbling, melodic threnody of power. Raw, primal and all-consuming. It is the sound of mechanical ecstasy being venomously detonated just below your balls, and when it’s booming, you... Read More →
Published on October 7th, 2015 | by Boris
Just quietly, while the Italians and the Germans were busily constructing motorcycle marvels of electronic sophistication and sorcery, Suzuki took a deep breath…and dragon-kicked them in the throat. When I first heard about the new GSX-S,... Read More →
