Summer is motorcycling’s best season what with copious rallies, events, races and seemingly endless warm, sunny days to enjoy the sport. However, I’ll let you in on a secret: fall is even better. Living in and around Pittsburgh for most of my life, I’ve come to appreciate the change of seasons and the difference that…

  History has  a strange way of disproving the latest trends. Take print magazine, for example. In this smartphone-obsessed nation, magazines are rapidly becoming relics of  a less hectic past and are vanishing faster than brains free of Internet influence. Ah, but the same used to be believed about vinyl records which have, some 30…

  In my humble opinion, Ducati’s original Multistrada was one of the homleyest motorcycles ever produced. It’s certainly the least lovely machine ever to roll on the road wearing the vaunted Bologna firm’s livery, having broken all tradition of Italian motorcycles before it. Sure, the all-purpose ‘Strada more than achieved its goal- that is, to…

Just when you thought motorcycles couldn’t get much faster, technologically complex and downright lust-inducing, Triumph breaks into the streetbike party with one hell of a guest. I’m speaking of their latest incarnation of their stripped-down three-cylinder Speed Triple, a motorcycle that pretty much invented the factory cafe racer game back in 1994. Many performance upgrades…