Random Thoughts: Saying Goodbye to 2024
Sitting here in front of the computer, with the calendar inching its way closer to a brand-new year, it seems like a good time to take one last look back on 2024 before we turn our attention to 2025....
View ArticleColin Fraser: KTM The Major Off-Season Question
At the recent GP Bikes seasonal open house, I was helping TSN’s Dave Hatch at his Motorcycle Experience display. Prior to letting the customers in from a cold Saturday morning, we wondered how long it...
View ArticleThe Bronti Files: One Step at a Time
With the calendar turned to 2025, its hard to believe that 2024 is finally over. For myself, this last year will be remembered for its highs and lows, but also for the people who supported me on the...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Willie Vass – Alberta’s Secret Weapon
For most people involved in the motorcycle racing business, the winter months are an off-season; catching up at the shop or office before the next race season kicks off in the winter-delayed spring....
View ArticleColin Fraser: Steve Dick Enters Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame – Part 1
Steve Dick is a very young looking 70 and has always presented as youthful. At the event considered to be the first-ever National Superbike competition in Canada for what is now called Bridgestone...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Steve Dick Enters Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame – Part 2
Now retired, Steve Dick recently spoke to Inside Motorcycles from Mexico. The former Suzuki Canada factory racer was happy to remember some of the fascinating details of the national competition career...
View ArticleThe Bronti Files: Welcome to the Nationals
So where were we? Oh yes, that’s right I’m just going into my first race round of 2024 with the EMRA back at Rad Torque raceway. The first time I’ve ridden at that track since the first accident a year...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Scott Miller’s Fast Company all-in for CSBK 2025
During my interview with Scott Miller, I jokingly suggest that he has something in common with fictional action hero John Wick, as played by Canadian movie star Keanu Reeves. Wick no longer wishes to...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Looking Back on Daytona
This year’s Daytona 200 Bike Week event, the 83rd running of the Florida classic, marks the fourth season for the revamped format started by MotoAmerica in 2022. At that time, the organizers of the AMA...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Daytona Dramas – Tires, Baggers and Trevor Daley
Following the opening 2025 MotoAmerica Mission King Of The Baggers round Friday March 7, an unusual group attended the podium festivities. That factory Harley-Davidson racer Kyle Wyman would win was no...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Strong U.K. Contingent Features at Daytona 200
Once you have worked through the utter dominance of Ducati’s Josh Herrin at the Daytona 200, one of the interesting developments of the 84th Bike week event was the strong effort of the impressive...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Dylan Bauer’s Last Minute Daytona Challenge
We caught up with Dylan Bauer a week after the Daytona 200, on a gym day where he was also rehabbing the blistered feet, he suffered during the lengthy MotoAmerica race back on Saturday, March 8 in...
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