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It’s in the bag - or is it? Or maybe it’s in the pants. And that’s the point really. The motorcycle airbag has been around for a few years now, but these new discrete airbags make safety more practical and less dorky.

Emissions and cost-cutting ensure that 270-degree parallel twins are all the rage today - but are they really all they're hyped up to be?

If there’s one thing that sucks harder than wet paper straws, it’s putting on wet riding gear from the previous day’s ride. It’s hard to say whether he was inspired or tortured into finding a solution for this, but 45’s DIY gear dryer is quite an interesting build.

If you ride, your brain knows how motorcycles work intuitively, but we bet you'll struggle to explain it accurately. We're trading opinions for science in a pursuit to understand how motorcycles really steer.

The $2000 Canyon Stoic is quite a contentious idea. Sure, it might bypass the added cost of buying a bike from the shop, but does that mean all the headaches are also direct to consumer?

We get it - you rode your friend's bike, and now you’ve caught the moto bug. A large part of the ensuing negotiations with your fam will be about gear and being safe. So, here’s what you need to know about the best beginner motorcycle gear in 2024.

Why are newer pickup trucks killing so many pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists? We set aside politics and emotional attachment to look at the data underpinning the issue.

45's ol' DR might pass the fitness test, but it seems like 45 might not. Facing planned obsolescence, he gets to work - choosing glow up over blow up.

Is it possible to reliably repair broken carbon fibre parts? Conventional wisdom would disagree, but being proudly unconventional, we test repaired carbon fibre parts to destruction. Yes, it was fun.

Tired of looking like a Comicon character on your motorcycle? Well, fret not. Because our gear selection here is perfect for everyday casual riding - safe, comfortable, affordable, and importantly, not dorky.

The same bike since '96, they sure do make'm like they used to. The DR650 might look like a tired ol’ pony but with enough wrenching, tastier parts, and a little help from the DR community, ol’ faithful can strangely start to look like the unicorn we’ve all been waiting for.

These pads are useless; get an airbag

45’s personal battle against planned obsolescence continues when his back throws up a 404 on his seasonal migration up north. Thankfully, Lianne’s got his back (literally) with some stretches for the long haul.

‘Adventure is out there!’. It certainly is, but like the movie that popularized the phrase (and made grown men cry in the first five minutes), don’t sit around too long waiting for the perfect time or gear. Here are our favorite ADV picks for 2024 so that you can spend more time riding and less time on a screen.

This might come as a surprise to many, but you can go off-road on your own two feet leaving your motorcycle behind. It’s called hiking, and with that in mind, we break down a list of gear that’ll be good for both - hiking and biking.

After going through a midlife crisis, BMW’s flagship adventure tourer is back with a facelift, a six-pack, less flab (-26 lbs!), more power and more techno mumbo-jumbo than ever. But is it enough?

Winglets on street motorcycles are a bit worse than useless.

Motorcycles give us access to some amazing places, and some of these places are great spots to shoot fish. #45 tries to utilize some aspects of motorcycling for less conventional adventuring, tasking it with rather unusual duties : diving, spearfishing, and then fish taco-ing.

A suitcase with wheels? Well, Honda has been there and done that in the 80s with the Motocompo, but it never caught on. Now, having Bean there and done that with its spiritual successor - the Motocompacto - we find out if the concept will fare any differently this time around.

Hi-Lo gearboxes are pretty common in the 4x4 world, but they never really took off in the motorcycle world. We split open a vintage Suzuki with a dual ratio gearbox to understand why.

It took more than nice slogans and superficial corporatism for Honda in particular and Japan on the whole to become the absolute ???? of motorcycle manufacturing.

Rekluse’s latest EXP 4.0 auto clutch promises a lot, so our in-house recluse decides to find out if it's worth the squeeze (or lack thereof)

The Canadian motorcycle is back and brilliant! But...

45's at it again. This time, he's thumbing his nose at the man by sneaking in a motorcycle where few motorcycles have gone before...

45 chances upon a bunch of unreleased films after hacking the FortNine server. He puts together a backcountry dual-sport movie night to showcase the cringiest one...