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I ride a lot. I travel a lot. I talk a lot — and I'm happy to take you along for the ride.
I almost never let a motorcycle do its own shifting. On the 2025 KTM 1390 Super Adventure S Evo, on a cold and tight supermoto track, I did it anyway, and it turned into the biggest adrenaline hit of the day.
After more than a thousand motorcycles, almost nothing rattles me anymore. Then I rolled out on the silent, electric Stark Varg SM, and I will be honest, I did not get close to what this thing can really do.
Sharp price, a familiar 645cc V-twin, a quickshifter that actually feels right, and genuine touring comfort with no cheap aftertaste. The SV-7GX is one of 2026's most interesting bikes.
Three laps in on the V4 Rally, something clicks. The chassis snaps right, the V4 hooks up clean, and a 529 lb tourer suddenly plays supermoto on a tight Austrian loop. Forget the spec sheet, this one rewards you.
Cold spring morning, 54 F asphalt, fresh Bridgestone T33 on a 523 lb adventure bike with an automated gearbox. The big question: is the BMW R 1300 GS ASA actually quick on a tight supermoto track, or is it just clever luggage for highway miles?
There are motorcycle trips you plan with your head. And then there are the ones that start somewhere deeper. Colorado is firmly the second kind. In July 2026 we line up two Aprilia Tuareg 660s on the Backcountry Discovery Route.
It is not a launch event. It is not a magazine shoot. It is the Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este — and BMW dropped a six-cylinder K18 concept onto the same lawn as cars worth more than houses. Here is what Lake Como looked like this year.
When BMW says 'Concorde on wheels,' they actually mean it. The K 18 Vision landed on the Villa d'Este lawn last weekend wearing a 1,800 cc inline-six like a piece of industrial sculpture — and made everyone forget Lake Como was even there.
Cheap adventure bike, brutal Croatian rocks, surprising amount of trust. This bike costs roughly half of what a serious adventure machine runs. I wanted to know what is actually inside the CFMOTO 450MT, so I raced it through the entire Krka Enduro.
Opening day at our Austrian supermoto-track benchmark. Asphalt at 52 F, four adventure rivals waiting, and the Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 Limited rolling out for the first timed lap of the year. The point is not the lap time. It is how fast you trust the bike when the conditions are not doing you any favors.
Day eight of our 1700 mile tour through the American West, gas stop in Stanley Idaho, the realization hits: 80 percent dirt, 34F mornings, 86F afternoons, washboard at 70 mph. The Suzuki under me is running like day one. Why are Japanese motorcycles this reliable?
For a Central European rider, Utah does not compute the first time you stand in it. Salt Lake City to Kanab on a Beta RR 2T X-Pro 200, in a small group on a mix of enduros. Slickrock, sand, water crossings, slot canyons. Here is what stuck.
Nostalgia is almost always wrong. I had the KLE filed away as a mischievous street bike from the nineties. The 2026 model showed up with knobbies, 8.3 inches of fork travel, and enough gravel grip to make farm-track detours at seven in the morning feel like the right call.
I've looked at hundreds of used bikes. The biggest red flags aren't on the machine — they are hiding in the owner's garage. Here is the 10-minute test that saves you thousands.
Adventure bike marketing is extraordinarily good at one thing: making sport tourers look like expedition machines. There are two specifications that cut through all of it instantly.
When you are afraid of your own motorcycle at 0 mph, the elbows lock, the joy dies, and every ride becomes a stress test you didn't sign up for. Here is the test that reveals whether your bike actually fits you.
The dealership margin on new bikes is 12–15%. If you walk in expecting to negotiate a significant discount off MSRP, you are going to lose that negotiation before it starts. The money is somewhere else.
In a blind left-hand corner, the thing you're afraid of is stationary. The thing that will kill you is invisible — and you're riding straight toward it.
The horsepower arms race produced the least interesting motorcycles money can buy. Measured by adrenaline-per-dollar on the roads where you actually ride, the mid-weight naked bike wins by a margin nobody puts on a spec sheet.
Most scramblers on sale today are naked bikes wearing trail boots and knobby tires. There is a single specification that exposes the fake from the genuine — and manufacturers would rather you didn't know it.
Somewhere between the group ride and the track day lap timer, a lot of riders lost the thread of why they started. Here is how to find it again.
The roll phase feels safe. It isn't. Here is the maintenance throttle technique that experienced Alpine riders use to stay planted, precise, and in control through the tightest switchbacks.
Riders spend hundreds on aftermarket seats chasing comfort they could have found for free. The real fix for motorcycle back pain takes no money and thirty seconds to understand.