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Coming around corner four, I took a glance behind me to see Oliver Jervis from Canadian Biker and Le Guide de Moto's Bertrand Gahel closing in fast behind me. Before I have time to think of a suitable blocking maneuver, they're either side of me.

I wake up at 7 a.m. I'm in a motel room with a freshly showered Mr. Seck doing the wakey-wakey chant. Then comes the realization that I'm about to embark on a 12-hour endurance ride around the back-end of northern Ontario in search of obscure clues in obscure places for some kind of obscure pleasure. Welcome to the Blackfly Rally – 12 or 24 hours of non-stop riding to test man and machine with no plausible reason other than to ride … a lot.

Okay, so we’ve just handed back our Majesty long-termer after almost a year of use, so its time to give some thoughts as to how it fared.

We've had a lot of use from KTM's 640 Adventure bike this year. First ‘arris took it through the grueling Paris-Dacre ride, then I took it to the Rally-Connex Northumberland ride, followed by a one-day foray into some nasty trails in Quebec's Laurentians.

CMG and racing have proven to be a somewhat unstable mix in the past. However, for some reason we feel the inexplicable urge to carry on. Things seemed to be looking up in 2005 when our racing efforts started off well enough with our Pascal Anctil coming up with a very unCMG-like podium finish in the first round of the 600cc National Amateur series.

CMG and racing have proven to be a somewhat unstable mix in the past. However, for some reason we feel the inexplicable urge to carry on. Things seemed to be looking up in 2005 when our racing efforts started off well enough with our Pascal Anctil coming up with a very unCMG-like podium finish in the first round of the 600cc National Amateur series.

It’s about 9pm and I’m sitting in a bar in Buckingham, Quebec with a pint of the best tasting ice-cold beer that I’ve had in a long time.

When I picked up the Kawasaki Vulcan 2000 test bike, my first thought was that this is one big ‘mother’ of a bike.

After spending the first day of our Las Vegas launch on the track (with the morning being coached by Freddie Spencer and team), I was feeling ready for a good road blast.

His Royal Editorship claims to not like track sessions (even though he gets around pretty well) so he asked if I’d mind writing up the track bits on the 1000 while he handled the street riding.