Adventure Motorcycles Are Good, Actually
My colleaguge Amber DaSilva announced to the world yesterday that she is done with her BMW F800GS and adventure bikes in general. In her case, she’s probably right to go …
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I Think I’m Done With Adventure Motorcycling
I put my beloved BMW F800GS up for sale last week. I bought it nearly a year and a half ago for the same reason anyone buys an adventure bike: …
Yamaha Champions Riding School Fundamentally Changed How I Ride Motorcycles
When someone mentions “motorcycle school,” your first thought is probably of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s Basic RiderCourse — the weekend-long training that gets you a shiny new M endorsement on …
My BMW F800GS Needs A Vanity Plate, What Should I Get?
Photo: Amber DaSilva / Jalopnik Here’s a confession: I hate most vanity plates. They’re usually dumb, trite, or going for an all-too-obvious joke, like Corvette plates touting the superiority of …
Crypto’s 2023 Water Use Could Cool 249 Billion Volkswagen Beetles
Cryptocurrency is a weird, bad bubble that’s largely already popped, but some folks just refuse to give up and cash out. Instead, they’re hawking cryptocurrency perfumes to appeal to women, …
What’s The Worst Thing About Your Car?
Photo: Mazda As much as we all love our vehicles, none of them are ever absolutely perfect. They’ve got faults, foibles, things that could just be that little bit better …
I Cannot Overstate The Importance Of A Good Motorcycle Helmet
Two weeks ago, I embarked on my first offroad ride with my BMW F800GS: 100 miles of mixed dirt, gravel, pavement, and mud, stretching from Massachusetts’s southern border to the …
Wrenching On My Decade-Old F800GS For A Weekend Trail Trip
The internet’s favorite broken old Beemer is back — now, less broken than ever. When we last saw my BMW F800GS, it had finally been restored to its bright-blue glory, …
What’s Your Perfect $100,000 Garage?
Congratulations, you’ve won the lottery. Not the Powerball, we’re talking a smaller one — maybe a partial match, or a particularly good scratch off. You have enough to pay off …
Decade-Old BMW F800GS Project: Weekend Wrenching Updates
My once-sketchy 2013 BMW F800GS is getting more rideable by the day. The new tubes, tires, and bearings did most of that work, ensuring the bike would actually lean over …