Cycle Canada

3 weeks ago | cyclecanadaweb.com | Dave Beaudoin

The GSX-S1000GT is now Suzuki’s sole modern sports road bike. It is designed to travel far and fast with all your stuff, solo or two-up. I had the chance to spend two days on the blue machine last summer, in order to evaluate its sports travelling skills. The 2010 decade has been ruthless for Gran Turismo motorcycles.

Sep 13, 2024 | cyclecanadaweb.com | Bertrand Gahel

Panigale Stripped. *Archives – March / April 2022 digital issue. Undressing an Italian icon can result in a nervous mess of hoses and wires. But it can also be the beginnings of another icon. Depends how it’s done. With the Streetfighter V2, Ducati demonstrates its unzipping talents. La Palma del Condado, Spain. A Panigale V2 with a high handlebar minus a couple horsepower and a fairing equals a Streetfighter V2. That’s how Ducati describes its new $18,995 955 cc naked.

Sep 13, 2024 | cyclecanadaweb.com | Bertrand Gahel

*Archives – March / April 2022 digital issue. While North American motorcyclists don’t exactly loose sleep over the concept of urban mobility, over in Europe, congested cities swarmed by scooters illustrate how important the issue of A to B can actually become. BMW’s all-new CE 04 offers a rare pollution-free solution. Barcelona, Spain. A week doesn’t go by without another headline about some car company phasing out its internal combustion engine development or some new electric car being launched.

May 1, 2024 | cyclecanadaweb.com | Michel Garneau

*This article was published in Vol. 52 No. 1 of Cycle Canada digital magazine. The unveiling of Kawasaki’s H2 and H2R models a few short years ago effectively renewed the marriage between pressurised engines and production bikes. Some will recall that this is not the industry’s first foray into the world of non-atmospheric engines, the last dalliance being in the early 1980s with the “turbo” bikes produced by the big 4 Japanese manufacturers. So why a return to non-atmospheric mills now?

Apr 1, 2024 | cyclecanadaweb.com | Michel Garneau

*This article was published in Vol. 51 No. 8 of Cycle Canada digital magazine. In our last column, we gave an overview of the essential functions of suspensions. In this issue, we’ll be taking a closer look at this critical and essential system on modern motorcycles, including a closer look at the need for and function of damping. Why damping? For the purposes of this discussion, the word damping refers to the control or slowing of the action of a suspension.