Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2016 i Motorcycle Mojo Magazine

As fall diminishes into long, cold nights and less daylight, the stage has been set for what’s to come. If you haven’t already put your bike away for the winter, I think it’s safe to say you haven’t been riding it as much on a daily basis. Maybe you should check out our review of the Oxford heated grips on page 66. They are easy to install and heat up quickly to help you scrape out a few more weeks of riding throughout the year. But even if you can’t ride for a few months, you can rest assured we will continue to bring you great motorcycle reading material to keep you in the loop. This November issue is a fine example, as we bring you quite a diverse compilation…

11 The number of individuals being inducted into the Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2016. They are: • Leo Bouchard, contributor class • Miguel Duhamel, competitor class • Buddy Ford Sr., competitor class • Serge Huard, contributor class • Peter Hurst, competitor class • Gary McKinnon, competitor class • Carlo Paladino, contributor class • Pascal Picotte, competitor class • Carl Vaillancourt, competitor class • Jack Canfield, contributor class • Bruce Hickey, competitor class 5,250 The retail price in Canadian dollars of the new BMW G310R, putting it right on par with its Japanese competitors. 650 The cc displacement of a paralleltwin motorcycle that’s to come out of a collaborative effort between Kawasaki and Taiwanese manufacturer Kymco. Looks a lot like an ER-6n. 8 The number of valves in Harley-Davidson’s…

 The Shepherd’s Pub in Elora, Ont., is in the stone basement of a 175-year-old building right on the river’s edge, and if you’ve ever been to a pub in the old country, it’ll all feel very familiar. There isn’t a bad choice on the menu, though they do British pub food brilliantly. They also have a wide range of micro-brews on draft. On a hot day there’s nothing like a break in the cool, dark, stone basement looking out over the Grand River on Elora’s riverfront. Got a favourite restaurant or pub? Send us an email to editor@motorcyclemojo.com and tell us why. Visit motorcyclemojo.com for previous WTF submissions.…

We all know there’s a right way and a wrong way to learn how to ride. It’s better to learn to ride before you buy everything because how do you really know what you like? Source out a training organization and take a course. Maybe motorcycling is not for you. Do your research. Once you have made the decision that motorcycling is for you, go out and get the proper gear and continue to invest in yourself. As a motorcycle instructor, I’ve been blessed with the privilege of helping people achieve their riding dreams. It’s our responsibility as instructors to ensure that we educate students on their next steps once they leave our controlled-lot environment and venture into the real world. We talk about the fact that even though they…

The summer of 2015 was truly a phenomenal one, as the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games came to Toronto. Maybe, like many people, I didn’t really pay too much attention when the Games were awarded to Toronto in 2009. And maybe, like many people, I also was not aware that the Pan American Games are the world’s third-largest international multi-sport event held every four years, surpassed in size only by the Olympic Summer Games and the Asian Games. It was also pretty impressive to find out that close to 7,000 athletes from across Latin America, South America, the Caribbean and North America were coming together to compete in 36 Pan Am and 15 Parapan Am sports. Interesting, but what does this have to do with motorcycling? Motorcycle Support Along…

Finding protection in 610-metre-high cliffs, the Ancestral Puebloan people shaped sandstone into blocks and mortared them with dirt and water into sturdy walls up to four storeys high. Living rooms averaged two by three metres, and were plastered on the inside and decorated with painted designs. Crops, which were grown on top of the mesa, were carried via footholds gouged in the sheer rock to storage in the cool stone rooms below. A corn-only diet led to mental illness among the people and unstable leaders who became bloody tyrants. Fortunately, the Anasazi (as they were also known) added meat, and later beans, to their diet. Believing humankind came to this world from below, the people built round underground rooms called kivas for religious, social and utilitarian purposes (such as warmth…

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: There are several telltale signs that it might be time to replace your bike’s clutch. On my KLR650, one of the visual indications that it was ready for a new clutch was that the adjuster on the engine side of the clutch cable was near its limit. As the clutch wears on a cableoperated clutch, the pressure plate moves deeper in relation to the clutch cover, which causes the actuating lever to move inward. We compensate for this by adjusting the cable at the hand lever, but if that adjuster reaches its limit, there’s a further adjustment where the cable attaches to the engine. On some bikes, like Harleys, the adjuster can be in the cable itself. If you’re at the end of the cable adjuster at the…

TAJIKISTAN Known as the “Roof of the World,” the Pamir Mountain range is among the tallest and least explored on Earth. Join Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent and a small group of riders as they spend two weeks in Tajikistan’s high country amid stunning scenery and unexpected hospitality. SOUTH AMERICA As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and though it’s perhaps the mother of all clichés, it rings true once again as world travellers Bea and Helmut Koch bring us a stunning pictorial of their adventures in South America. PORTUGAL Famed Canadian off-road competitor Lawrence Hacking tags along on a Portuguese Paradise Tour, hosted by 10-time Dakar participant Simon Pavey. This group of riders tackles the Algarve region’s finest dirt and paved roads in a five-day marathon of…

Z is for Zagato MV Agusta F4Z  This is the MV Agusta F4Z, or Zagato, named for the famed Italian coachbuilder – now there’s a word we don’t get to use often enough in our world of mass production. This one-off styling collaboration is, at heart, an MV Agusta F4, itself a design that has long been the standard for beauty in the world of motorcycling. While this is primarily a cosmetic undertaking, the result speaks for itself; however, what it’s saying will depend on the tastes of the beholder.…

First I snickered, then I chuckled, then I actually laughed out loud as I twisted the throttle on Honda’s nimble little Grom as I giggled my way around Greg Moore Raceway in Chilliwack, B.C. Remember when you and your friends rented scooters for the first time? They come with a mandatory stupid grin plastered on your face, and that is what riding the Grom is like – all the time. Good old-fashioned, hilarious fun. Stemming from surf culture, the term “grom” (from “grommet”) is most commonly used to describe young, talented surfers, skateboarders, snowboarders and recently, little mountain bikers. Honda’s use of the name for the little 125 cc rig is clever, as is the name of a relatively new racing series called the Grom Prix. It’s an ingenious name…

The bagger, which is a stripped and slammed version of a full dresser, is a purely American phenomenon, and there are two ways to look at it: It’s either the devolution of the dresser, sacrificing touring practicality for a streamlined silhouette, or it’s the evolution of the cruiser, adding saddlebags and a fairing to a low-slung, foot-forward machine. The three main American bike makers – Harley-Davidson, Indian and Victory – all produce different variations of these streamlined touring cruisers, and in fact, the segment is important enough that Honda stripped the Gold Wing to produce the F6B. Even BMW has teamed up with American custom bike guru Roland Sands to build an experimental bagger based on the K1600GT, called the Concept 101. The traditional bagger, however, is American made, so…

For those of us who ride in Canada or the northern States, it’s no surprise that cool spring and fall temperatures can put a damper on the number of days we can comfortably ride our bikes. But we do have options to keep the cold at bay by using heated hand grips, clothing and seats. A friend of mine once said that every motorcycle sold in Canada should come standard with heated grips, and I certainly wouldn’t disagree with him. While a good number of motorcycles do have OEM heated grips, many don’t. If yours is one of the many, don’t let that inconvenience stop you from enjoying rides on cooler days – you can easily retrofit heated grips on virtually any motorcycle. With more than 30 years of heated…

The Environmental Protection Agency has fined Harley-Davidson US$12 million for failing to comply with emissions standards by selling its Screamin’ Eagle Street Performance Tuner. The unit enables owners to reprogram their bikes air/fuel/ignition mapping to accom- modate performance modifications. In addition to the fine, the company will have to buy back some 340,000 units of the little wonder box, deny warranty on any bikes that have the unit installed and pay an additional $3 million toward projects aimed at mitigating air pollution through a project to, um, replace conventional woodstoves with cleaner-burning stoves? If that weren’t enough, the EPA is claiming there have been some 12,000 units sold by Harley that don’t have an EPA certificate. The total cost to the manufacturer is still unclear, but there’s no doubt it’s…

editor@motorcyclemojo.com NOT TIME TO QUIT YET I’ve been reading Mojo since it started and it’s still the best mag out there. Has a real family feel to it. A few years ago I was going to give up riding so I let my subscription slide. Then I saw your mag again at the newsstand, read it and decided it just wasn’t time to stop riding yet so thanks for that. MARTIN CROCE VIA EMAIL THAT STORY SOUNDS FAMILIAR Just wanted to wish Stu well in retirement. I’ve known Stu casually for many years; he’s practically a neighbour. One of my earliest memories of Motorcycle Mojo was an article Stu wrote about selling his Ducati 860 to a friend who had never ridden before. He kept his bike in the house…

When I was 16, I made the mistake of riding my Honda CB350 to my girlfriend’s house. Her father came out and put his arm around my shoulder and said, “You seem like a nice guy, but if you ever take my daughter on the back of that thing, I will kill you!” It was years before I took a passenger on my bike. I realized that I had their safety and survival in my hands. I quickly learned that the extra weight of a passenger really affected the cornering, acceleration and especially the braking. I also learned that a novice passenger might not realize or appreciate why I was leaning the bike over in corners. If you try to impress your new passenger on how good a rider you…

FAST FACTS A ROMAN SWORD Released in 2009, the Gladius is an unassuming naked street bike that uses Suzuki’s venerable 650 cc V-twin, which is also used in the SV650 and the 650 V-Strom. JUPITER’S TRAVELS Ted Simon’s book details his four-year journey of 126,000 km across 45 countries on his 500 cc Triumph Tiger 100. Jupiter’s Travels is the de facto motorcycle travel journal that has inspired thousands to travel, including Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman of Long Way Round fame. GET OFF THE COUCH According to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, a comfort zone is “a range of action, behaviour, etc. with which a person feels comfortable, often complacently so.” Well, that sounds boring! Many people feel constrained by the type of riding they can do with their motorcycle,…