Not the liquid-cooled one you see in the Starbucks parking lot with the LED headlight. The one before it. The air/oil-cooled 1,170cc boxer that BMW built from 2005 through 2012, and through 2013 in Adventure trim. And right now it is the cheapest big BMW worth owning.

Who is Lili Dobert? A psychotherapist from upstate New York who got her motorcycle license at fifty-three and ten years later rode into history on the first female-led Legacy Lap at the Isle of Man. Four bikes in the garage, a pit crew of engineers who don’t ride, and a habit of saying yes before she knows how it ends.

Motorcycle media just lost one of its own. Cycle World, the oldest motorcycle magazine in America, running since 1962, is winding down. The magazine stopped publishing in 2020, but the entire Cycle World arm of Octane has closed down as as of July 7th. Whatever you thought of it, that’s more than sixty years of road tests, race coverage, and stories that got a lot of us into this in the first place. That deserves a nod, not a victory lap. So here’s the nod. Thank you to every

Who is Jeff Nash? Jeff Nash is Klim's Mid-Atlantic sales rep, an AMA Vintage Days national trials champion (that's the trophy in the basement), and a guy who has spent his lifetime in the powersports business. If you've seen his Wheelie Wednesday videos, you already know he rides like a man who never got the memo that you're supposed to slow down. He came to us through his work with Amanda prepping for the Legacy Lap, but he stayed because he turned out to be a gold mine of s

Yamaha built one little engine -> the 689cc CP2 parallel twin, and then bolted it into damn near everything… the MT the R7 the Ténéré the XSR Cheap, everywhere, bulletproof, endlessly tunable. The MT-07 is just the purest, cheapest way to get your hands on it. The Numbers... 689cc parallel twin, liquid-cooled. 270-degree crank. ~73hp. ~50 ft-lb torque. ~400lb wet. 31.7-inch seat height. Sold as the FZ-07 from 2015–2017 before Yamaha came to its senses and called it the MT-07

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