#GreatUsedSportTouringMotorcycles
Church of MO: 2011 Triumph Sprint GT Review
Well I’ll be. Triumph doesn’t even make a sport-tourer anymore; they’ve all been phased out in favor of adventure bikes, looks like. The Honda VFR1200F that was supposed to be its competition is also long defunct, and the BMW K1300S has also left the building. What happened to big sport-tourers like the Triumph Sprint GT anyway? We must’ve evolved while nobody was looking.
Church of MO: 2011 Gentlemen Sportbike Shootout
Gennelmen, start your engines. Ten years ago, Tommyguns Roderick still had his video-star good looks, EiC Duke was Eic, and where is Kevin Smith today? The Suzuki GSX-F, also now defunct, was the spiritual (and mechanical) descendant of the mighty Bandit 1200, and the FZ1 was the Jeb Bush of the family. Ten years on, only the Ninja 1000 soldiers on, MO’s Runner-Up for Best Sport Tourer of 2020.
Church of MO: 2001 Aprilia RST Futura Vs. Ducati ST4
Twenty years ago we didn’t need no stinkin’ TFT displays or active suspension or adaptive cruise control, cause we had paper maps and Walkmans, our butts were tough from all the beatings, and our wrists were well-developed from all the, ah, riding. And we liked it that way. Twenty years ago, Minime and the “MO Staff” escaped to Yosemite for a nice ride aboard a pair of Italians stallions. Why doesn’t Aprilia make a modern Futura? Why?
