Published on December 11th, 2018 | by Boris
I managed to acquire the Held Camaris jacket for the New Zealand launch of the Yamaha Niken. Cool, I thought. I shall look so very fine. The hot backpacker babes in their insane painted-on yoga pants... Read More →
Published on December 10th, 2018 | by Boris
IMAGES BY DAVE COOKE Sunday’s the day, huh? You hope it will be sunny, you call your mates, or you put up a post on Facebook because you have no mates, and off you go…up that... Read More →
Published on December 4th, 2018 | by Boris
TALES OF THE NIKEN – EPISODE 1 In which our hero acquires a three-wheeled thing which has made him a little mental, and attempts to reconcile his inner anguish at operating this non-motorcycle like a... Read More →
Published on December 4th, 2018 | by Boris
Fuck Mark Marquez. Seriously. Fuck all 59kg of him and fuck all his tombstone-sized teeth while you’re there. He’s been in MotoGP what? Ten Minutes? And he’s already amassed five titles (seven, if you’re counting the... Read More →
Published on November 24th, 2018 | by Boris
One more X in its name and we’d be at such a level of helmet-porn, I’d have to take my pants off to write this. As it is, the the X-803 is right up there as... Read More →
Published on November 22nd, 2018 | by Eva Cripps
As the long warm days of summer draw closer, a certain demographic of motorcyclists are gearing up for another round of “Who can I blame this time?” when they inevitably crash. This pre-emptive misplaced culpability has... Read More →
Published on November 21st, 2018 | by Boris
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSH EVANS This cannot be right. It’s not a motorcycle. It’s dual front-wheel set-up offends my highly-developed motorcycle purity gland. How dare Yamaha even produce such a thing, then presume upon my purity by... Read More →
Published on November 6th, 2018 | by Boris
IMAGES BY NICK “IF YOU CRASH THIS IN THE WET THE PICS WILL BE REALLY SPECIAL” EDARDS / HALF LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC Right after the good people at BMW demanded I return the K1600B (B is for... Read More →
Published on November 3rd, 2018 | by Boris
IMAGES BY NICK ‘NO, I DO NOT HAVE A LENS THAT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE ROSSI’ EDARDS / HALF LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC No-one builds sexier motorcycles than MV Agusta. What Massimo Tamburini created all those years ago... Read More →
Published on October 12th, 2018 | by Boris
I have lots of very good high-end motorcycle gear. It’s one of the benefits of working in the industry for so long. But while I have all the very finest off-the-shelf stuff, I have never had... Read More →
