Today I’m going to talk about some of the things the executive committee at Ducati motorcycles would prefer you didn’t know. There are more to be honest, but these are the 10 stand out facts about the company that they maybe aren’t so proud of. To be clear, I think the Bevel Drive Ducati’s are […]
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Today, I’m going to share with you a very long-term review of the Suzuki DL650 Vstrom. It isn’t a short review so I have included timestamps below to help you find the bits you want quickly. I’ve been a DL650 owner now for over 15 years so I think I have plenty of experience to
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Something new is on it’s way That was the headline that accompanied the original KTM spy shots and announcement. But will we really get something new? There have been a lot of rumours floating around about what is coming from KTM some snippets newer than others, and after doing some digging I thought I would
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If you remember the last leg of our journey was from Semelay to Saint Victor, right in the centre of the Dordogne. This was all new territory for us both. Neither of us had been this far south in France before. It had been a long days riding to get to Saint Victor and as
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Now in general motorcycles don’t scare me at all. I have ridden some monstrously powerful and insane bikes over the years, but even I have scared myself at times. Some motorcycles have a tendency to do that more than others and there are a few bikes that over the years that have earned the title
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Could this bike be the Unicorn of adventure bikes that so many people have been asking for for so long? The KOVE 450R Rally Pro is a competitive, reliable, lightweight, long range rally bike. It will be the first ever mass produced “Dakar Rally” ready motorcycle in the world. 3 Kove Rally 450’s started the
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Could this be the next motorcycle to shake up the ADV market? Kove are a company on a mission, and they seem to have done what Honda, Suzuki, Ducati, Kawasaki and others have failed at. When they made the Kove 800X Super Adventure. They built a lighter adventure bike than both the 2 middleweight market
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If you are one of those people that is so closed minded to think everything that is made in China is poor quality you will be dissapointed here. I was luckyy enough to work in China in 2000 and the story of a pair of shoes springs to mind. At the time I was paying
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This is our journey from Semelay to Saint Victor. Part 4 of our European Tour videos. From Central France towards the Bordeaux region. To be clear, because there are several Saint Victor’s, our destination today was Saint Victor in Nouvelle Aquitaine, a small village near Riberac. Google said 406km without detours, but I had decided
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As you can see from the Title, today is a bit of a rant. Anyone who knows me knows I am never short of a rant or two. However, they do seem to be getting more common in recent years. Perhaps I’m just a grumpy old man now, but I think it is more than
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