Innholdsfortegnelse for September/October 2024 i Motorcycle Mojo Magazine

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7 There were only 14 riders to race the very first Corduroy Enduro. However, only seven finished the race. Every year there is a moderate number of racers who don’t finish. 70 The number of years the Corduroy Enduro has been running. Dubbed “Canada’s Toughest Race,” the enduro explores some of Ontario’s toughest terrain. This year’s event will be held September 19 to 22 in Gooderham, ON. 2 The Corduroy Enduro was founded by two people, Ron Jackson and Don Charters. It started as a fun race, but now the race is considered the from across North America. 300+ The two-day race covers more than 300 km of difficult terrain. 650 The number of riders planning to race this year’s Corduroy Enduro, a big jump from the 14 riders that…

With no paved roads or reliable maps, riding motorcycles in the early 1900s was challenging for anyone, let alone a pair of young women. In 1916, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren embarked on a remarkable journey, crossing the United States aboard a pair of 1,000-cc Indian Powerplus motorcycles. The pioneering sisters crossed the continental U.S., covering 8,850 gruelling kilometres in 60 days. In an effort to free up men for other wartime duties, the sisters hoped to demonstrate that women could serve as military dispatch riders. They dressed in military trousers and leather riding breeches and battled poor roads, heavy rains, and extreme prejudices. It was socially unacceptable in the day for women to wear pants, and despite being arrested multiple times for wearing men’s clothing, they completed their journey,…

Recently, in the south of Spain, I rode the newest generation of the R nineT, the R12 nineT, through the Andalusian mountains. It’s always been easy for me to admire the BMW R nineT. Since its launch in 2013, I’ve found myself drawn to the classic roadster that took styling cues from the R32, the very first BMW motorcycle, released in 1923. The BMW R nineT was originally released as a celebration project for the 90th anniversary of BMW. In the past, the R nineT might be perceived as “chunky,” with abruptness in the lines leading from head to tail. BMW took cues when styling the new R12 nineT from the plethora of customized R nineTs already out there and focused on creating fluid lines from front to back in…

I think I’ve hit the trifecta. No, not the horses. Nor have I surreptitiously won the MotoGP championship, the WSBK title and Daytona 200. I’m a never-was when it comes to racing and I’d sooner eat broken glass sprinkled with Tabasco sauce than wager money on the peccadilloes of a four-legged animal. What I have done — or rather, what I am about to do — is offend a great swatch of the Canadian public. By the end of his article, I will be guilty, by my reckoning, of sexism, ageism and, giving myself the benefit of the doubt, fat shaming. Considering that this column is about motorcycles, the fact I might manage to “trigger” as much as 83.2 per cent of the Canadian population (I looked up the census)…

Chances are you haven’t seen the ads on pages 42-43, and 69 yet, so let me get you up to speed. Mojo has moved, and it was a big one. We started Motorcycle Mojo in Ontario in 2002 — 22 unbelievable and unforgettable years ago — but it was time for new adventures with a move to new digs, and new riding roads. Mojo pulled up our roots and packed up our belongings at the end of August and, like the Beverly Hillbillies, we relocated clean across the country. We now have an address in Vernon in the interior of beautiful British Columbia. We are looking forward to new roads to explore, new adventure bike trails and dirt bike tracks, and we’ll be closer to our daughter, Emily, who many…

I started teaching rider training for the Canada Safety Council 40 years ago. Part of the curriculum covered what part of the lane you should ride in. I can watch a rider in traffic and can usually tell pretty quickly if they have had rider training. Self-taught riders often ride right in the middle of the lane, because they haven’t learned about the traction issues from all the gunk that drips there from cars. They’re also unaware of debris that can fall onto the road: mufflers and other parts that fall off of trucks and open trailers that often get kicked out of the tire track and end up in the middle of the lane. Middle-ofthe-lane riders are equally unaware of how their view of what is going on down…

Building motorcycle skills has always been an important part of my life. Over the years, I’ve found myself putting in more time helping others learn rather than focusing on new skills myself. So when Glenn and I decided to head to RawHyde for a skills weekend, I was elated. The arid wind reminded me that we were at the edge of the desert, and spotting the cow named Harley reminded me that we could only be at RawHyde Adventures. I was taking the Level 3 course, working on building upon foundational skills and learning new and more advanced skills. To take the Level 3, we had to do a refresher day to ensure our skills would be up to par for the advanced course. And on top of this, we…

HOW TO PLAN A LONG-DISTANCE RIDE You have some time off work, and you need to get out and see some countryside. You might have a destination in mind, or maybe you don’t. You start by unfolding your road map and you hit a wall. How do you go about planning an extended ride? Jeff Davison knows a thing or two about long distance, multi-week rides, and he lets us in on his secrets of planning the various stages of his travels and the resources he uses. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE COW PIE Stu Harrison and his riding buddy, Vince, figured it was time to step up their annual week-long ride somewhere in North America and celebrate a milestone birthday riding in the Highlands of Scotland. Firm believers…

I just happened to ride Hurricane Ridge to kill time while waiting for the ferry from Port Angeles, WA., to Victoria, B.C., on a cold, windy, rainy day. Having a four-hour wait, the ferry person suggested a ride to Hurricane Ridge. So, I found the road, which is a winding mountain road through a heavily treed area. For a first time it was a magical ride because as I got higher, the rain turned into a white-out and then, just like that, I was out of the clouds into a sunny, warm day with no wind. I parked in the lot, and took off my rain gear to wander around in a t-shirt. I walked over to the edge amongst the high mountain meadows and vegetation and looked down into…

I want to preface this column by saying this is meant to convey a happy realization rather than a morbid understanding. Some of you may be familiar with Max Burns, writer and long-time journalist for Cycle Canada. When I heard of Max’s passing I was saddened to say the least. I had most of his books, all of which have become good weights for my bookshelf to keep it stable in the event of an earthquake. I had read portions of his books, but honestly, never really got into them. When he passed, I picked up Adventures with Neddow for the cover photo, featuring Bruce Neddow sitting in his lawn chair in front of an eclectic shed. Neddow was a person who brought great joy to Burns’ life through Dual-Sport…

There are chemicals used regularly in a bike shop that are combustible, corrosive, and potentially explosive, and numerous sources of ignition — welders, battery chargers, grinders — that can set them off. It’s prudent to keep these things apart. When I was a service tech, I had seen several times how oversight, negligence, and downright stupidity often caused these things to come together unintentionally with a resulting big bang. Some blasts were unpredictable, like the time when Marc, a fellow mechanic in a Honda shop I worked at in the early ’80s, unintentionally blew himself out of a sidecar. Marc had been tasked with prepping a new Velorex sidecar for installation on a bike. Aside from installing the wheel, windshield and mounting hardware, he also had to glue the carpet…