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MPP Jaczek The online petition many CMGers have signed recently may have little effect against Ontario's proposed Bill 117 (which would prohibit kids under 14...

Streets are safer now. Lawns, too. Ontario’s new street racing law has finally proved its worth, as an OPP officer has been charged for driving...

Time for an update of the differences between US and Canadian process? We think so.

In 2007 Honda Canada gambled big that Canadian riders were ready for a small, unintimidating, but sporty motorcycle. The decision was taken after a lot of research into who was taking the riding schools (lots of people, many of them female), and who was going on through to get their final riding licence (disappointingly, not that many).

‘Arris had put together a team for last year’s inaugural P-D and had run the course on a KTM 640 Adventure. Even though this bike could be considered one of the best tools for the job, he came away from the event feeling like he’d been tossed into a rather large and dirty tumble dryer for sixteen hours. The idea of taking a near-500 lb vintage BMW on this ride was, in his books, a recipe for disaster.

Okay, so we've done the intro and dirt thing in part 1, for this part it would seem like a good idea to cover some of the more general aspects of the GS as well as all that lovely wrap-up stuff. So let's start by breaking down the bike into its component parts and summarizing how each bit held up over the year.