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Update: The review is live on RevZilla. Well, I’ve just gotten back home from Almeria, Spain for the press launch of the new Moto Guzzi Stelvio, and it’s time for me to collect my thoughts for a written review. What would you like to know about it?

The BMW Motorcycle Owners of America is deeply tied to a charity group called the Motorcycle Relief Project which supports military and first responders who are battling PTSD, and this year they’re raffling off a BMW R80ST!

Over the last year or so, you’ve probably seen that I’m a huge fan of the track day events that Aprilia puts on under the name of Aprilia Racers Days. Well, the Italian firm also puts on events for those of you that like to get dirty. They call it the Tuareg Experience, and this February you can join them …

It’s time for another round of my favorite posts to share: Bought on Bike-urious! This time we’ve got an Ducati MHR 900 that was bought by Bike-urious reader John K!

I did a separate post about my experience at Circuit of the Americas with Aprilia Racers Days but that was focused on the event, not my bike of choice. I highly recommend you check out the above post (and I also highly recommend that you join me at CotA next year), but here’s what I have to share about the …

My first bike was a 2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250, and while it was a pleasant enough way to get started in the world of motorcycling, it was also a sign of how depressing the 250cc sportbike market was in the US for years. Nowadays you can get all kinds of 250-400cc entry level sportbikes here, but throughout the 90s and …

Back when I was a much younger and better man, I used to ride Baja at least twice a year. Life has gotten in the way and the last time I was down there was six years ago with my buddy Spurgeon Dunbar from RevZilla – we rode a couple of BMW R1200GSes from Los Angeles down to Cabo on …

The Suzuki GSX-S1000GT+ has been on the market for almost a year now, but I haven’t had a reason to borrow one for a test until now. Vy and I are off to San Diego for the weekend and we’re heading down on Suzuki’s newest sport-tourer. You’ve likely already seen some reviews on this bike, but if there’s anything you’ve …

In a couple of weeks I’m finally going to the Barber Vintage Festival for the first time! One of the highlights of the weekend is Barber’s sold annual fundraiser – they call it Motorcycles by Moonlight and it’s on Friday, October 6th. No pressure, but that’s my birthday…so I hope you’ll be there!

On Wednesday the 20th, SPEED IS EXPENSIVE (a documentary about Philip Vincent and his legendary creations) will be premiering at the Laemmle Monica Film Center. I’ll be there – will you?

Now that the Kramer was in my life, it was finally time to use it! My first outing with it was a 2-day track event at Chuckwalla, a track that I’ve always found to be little-bike friendly. I had another trackday scheduled at Circuit of the Americas a month later so I had to make sure I broke in the …

Now that we’ve discussed the quirks, let’s get back to the good stuff!

I absolutely love my Tesi 3D, but I’m not going to pretend that the ownership experience has been perfect. Often times when I hear stories from people that spent a lot of money on a bike, it feels to me like they are trying to make the bike sound better than it is so that it doesn’t look like they …

My shakedown run was a success in that it found some weak spots that had to be fixed. The plan was to fix those problem spots and then do a little more testing/figure out how far I wanted to modify the bike, but the plan has changed and now it’s going up for sale. But don’t worry…I’ve already replaced it!

This one’s probably more for you East Coasters (where I’m currently posted up) – after 40 years of service, Roger Lyle of Motorcycle Xcitement is retiring and selling his road racing school/track day organization/pretty cool way to write off motorcycle expenses.