When Kawasaki announced their new KLX230 street-legal, dual-sport model, it left me scratching my head. Didn’t they just release a KLX250? Was a KLX230 replacing this model or supplementing it? This was the question on most everyone’s mind as we sat down for dinner at the press briefing in the small town of Jacksonville, Oregon, just outside of Medford. Kawasaki was actually launching three...

For me, getting to Sleddersrus HQ by road is a 25-minute crawl from West Philly to the Navy Yard on the south side of the city. I could be in a Lamborghini Countach and I wouldn’t enjoy it. That might be a lie. Anyway, driving or riding that route is nothing exciting. Commuter Andy is happiest on a bicycle. If I pedal, I can...

The range of accessible, small-displacement motorcycles continues to expand in the United States as Yamaha has announced that it will bring its MT-03 naked bike to the U.S. market for 2020. The MT-03 has been available in Europe, Australia and several Asian countries for a few years, but in the United States we only got the YZF-R3 fully faired sport bike. With the 2020...