July 29, 2010
News
The motorcycle adventure checklist
Photo: Grant RayGrant and I are planning a little adventure for August and are compiling a checklist of things we need to bring along. Take a look and let us know if we've forgotten anything. The trip involves approximately 3,000 riding miles, with 900 of those being on gravel or dirt roads. We'll mostly be camping along the way. All this has to fit on two bikes, only one of which has hard pannier...
29 July 2010
News
North-Korea: open for motorcycle business
Need to get motorcycles made on the cheap? Usually, you'd just call China, India or Brazil. Now, there's a fourth option. There's not a lot of information about the North-Korean motorcycles now available for export, but according to the spec sheet at least half of them are 125cc single-cylinder 5-strokes - a technology previously unavailable in corrupt, decadent imperialist nations (or the rest of...
29 July 2010