British Motorcycle Gear

Joe Gresh

That’s Not How We Do It In China

See that gap?  That narrow space between the semi-truck hauling 20-foot long, 6-inch diameter solid aluminum rods and the BMW…

6 years ago

Platoon

Jack Lewis and I used to work for the same motorcycle magazine. We both started at the magazine about the…

6 years ago

Zed’s Not Dead: Part 4

I got tired of cleaning carburetors. The chemicals, the gunk, soaking and prodding with tiny wires, it’s flat wore me…

6 years ago

Default To No

After I made a particularly snarky Facebook comment regarding some newfangled electronic rider aid, a former editor sent me an…

6 years ago

Zed’s Not Dead: Part 3

There’s never a good time to work on carburetors. I was hoping for a quick rinse out operation on Zed’s…

6 years ago

Zed’s Not Dead: Part 2

The first thing I wanted to check on Zed was whether the oil was contaminated or if the wet sump…

6 years ago

Zed’s Not Dead: Part I

I didn’t start out wanting a Kawasaki Z1. I’m more of a H2 750 triple guy. We were renting a…

6 years ago

The Munro Doctrine

Way south-er than you’ve ever been, on the south end of the south island of New Zealand, there lived a…

6 years ago

Dream Bike: 1969 Kawasaki 500cc Triple

The '69 Kawasaki Mach III 500cc two-stroke triple:  Wow!  It was a watershed wunderbike back in the days when the…

6 years ago

Wild Conjecture: The Demise of Kawasaki’s KLR650

Rumors are circulating on the Internet that Kawasaki is finally ceasing production of their KLR650 dual-sport motorcycle. Wild Conjecture has…

6 years ago