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Italian off-road motorcycle specialist Beta has a knack for making versatile, well-rounded machines. Personally, I was quite impressed with the approachability and versatility of the XTrainer. From grassroots 125 enduro bikes, all the way to race-winning big-bore MX machines, the Florence-based marque has off-road performance coursing through its veins.

As much as I believe the racing in MotoGP has been absolutely awesome to behold in recent years, the fact that Ducati is just always winning, either from the works team or its satellites, gets a bit boring. Yay, another Ducati on the podium!

We humans are an inherently wasteful species, and nowhere is this more evident than today. Everything from single-use plastics to disposable electronics are a living testament to this. The sad reality is that a lot of us simply don’t care about how our actions affect the planet, not just for…

If you've spent any time in the past year hanging out in the motorcycle corner of the internet, you've probably seen a Matt Spears video or two by now. If he's not enduro riding his old Gold Wing, he's taking a Hayabusa to Moab just because he can.

Like Fight Club, there are rules to thievery. First, you don't ever talk about your thievery. That one is shared with Fight Club. But there's also a second rule, something Fight Club doesn't have: Always have the faster vehicle. At least if you're going to use it to A) get away…

Finland remains on my bucket list of places to go, albiet for some particularly "me" reasons. See, as much as Finland is gorgeous, full of hospitable people, caribou I'd love to hunt, and the Northern Lights, if you want to learn any sort of motorsport, really learn it, you go to…

You don't need to see dashcam videos from halfway around the world to know that sometimes, people drive extremely poorly.There are a number of reasons for this. Maybe they're just bad at it, or they're not paying attention, or they're having a bad day. And on a personal level, the…

If you've been reading RideApart for a minute, you may be aware that I've been following Honda's Mobile Power Pack e: developments with interest for the past few years.

It’s now clearer than ever before: small bikes are in, and people from all over the world are going crazy over them. Gone are the days where manufacturers had to sell 1,000-plus cc machines just to get noticed. Now, the beginner segment is proving to be so much more than…

Listen, I'm no stranger to wearing motorcycle boots with things that most people would say I shouldn't. Several years ago, I used to have a long commute to work on my bike. Quite frequently, I'd put motorcycle over pants over whatever I wanted to wear at my job. Sometimes, it…

What you're about to read is a story so dumb, we almost couldn't believe it, either. But it's real, even though it sounds like the kind of scenario where, if you wrote it into a screenplay, you'd get notes back about how it's 'too unrealistic' and 'too unbelievable' and to…