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Oceanside beach photoblogging 16 Sep 2012 | 11:02 am
Chris and I went down to Oceanside today, and I took along the FZ200 to take a few pictures. This time though, rather than fill up the front page, all the pictures are below the fold. All the pics are...
2013 Victory Cross Country Tour 15 Sep 2012 | 07:10 am
Motorcycle USA has taken the 2013 Victory Cross Country Tour for a ride. They seem to like it. Especially the storage. There’s a lot of it, as Victory claims it has a total of 41.1 gallons of storage ...
First Rides of the Triumph Trophy 10 Sep 2012 | 09:00 am
The initial first rides of the new Triumph Trophy, which is the replacement for the Sprint ST, are starting to come in. Both Cycle World and Ultimate Motorcycling have published their first ride revie...
A little Photoblogging 10 Sep 2012 | 04:53 am
Chris and I went downtown to take some pictures. This time, instead of lugging around an SLR, I took my new Panasonic Lumix FZ200. It’s a 12.1 megapixel bridge camera, with a 28mm-600mm superzoom lens...
2013 Triumph Trophy pricing announced…in Canada 7 Sep 2012 | 09:43 am
CMG is reporting that the pricing for the 2013 Triumph Trophy has been announced for the Canadian market at CDN$19,999. That’s worse news than I thought, considering the Canadian dollar is about on pa...
2013 Triumph Explorer XC 6 Sep 2012 | 10:37 am
As the new model year gets closer, we’re being treated to the first look at some interesting new bikes for the 2013 model year. One of these is the off-road biased version of the Triumph Explorer, dub...
Brief Lumix FZ200 Review/Comparison 2 Sep 2012 | 02:23 am
As a photographer, my first choice for any professional assignment is a digital SLR. But, as a guy who just walks around and likes taking pictures, I want something slammer and more convenient. And I ...
New BMW GS unveiled on October 2 1 Sep 2012 | 12:14 am
BMW has announced that the newest RXXXXGS will be unveiled at the INTERMOT show on 2 October. The reason for all the X’s in the bike’s name is…we don’t know what the engine will be. 1200? 1250? 1300? ...
Coming to America? 29 Aug 2012 | 09:37 am
If You were around in the 1970s, this bike might look familiar to you. It’s the return of the classic Universal Japanese Motorcycle (UJM), in the shape of the Honda CB1100, a bike previously only avai...
Assault of the Ninjas! 29 Aug 2012 | 09:11 am
According to EPA certification documents, Kawasaki is preparing to drop a whole new set of Ninja models into the US market, as well as the big 1000cc version of the Versys. Nothing has been announced...
