Rumours of Calabogie being the locale for the Parts Canada Superbike 2008 season-opener have been confirmed, with May 22-25 being set. The track, about mid-way between Bancroft and Ottawa, takes an undulating 5.50 km 23-corner path through wild wooded country.

With a yen to see his paisans more often, Valentino Rossi will pack up his bags of money and head back to Italy — where he'll bestow an early Christmas on the taxman.

We've managed to strike a deal with Rene Cormier – world traveller and CMG contributor – for a special price of his 2008 Round the World Calendar for CMG-RC members.

It seems only fair — you damage somebody's motorcycle, you pay to fix it. In this case, however, it's like paying a doctor to mend a guy's hand after you've injured it with the point of your nose.

It's official: the next Dakar Rally will be staged in South America, Jan. 3 – 18, 2009.

I met Steve Moran on a plane (Account Executive for Canadian Scooter Corp) and he suggested that TK4 might be able to help me with my 1980 Suzuki GS 1100L problem. 

They may just be rumours, but here's the juice and 12 grain toast on what we've heard about regarding BMW.

The Canadian loonie buffed up against the U.S. greenback in 2007 and demands for lower prices appeared to threaten the Canadian motorcycle industry, but new bike sales continued to climb last year.

The factory Moto GP Yamaha team of Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo — or teams, really, since each rider has his separate group and tire choice — skipped the recent Australian tests in favour of a return to Sepang in Malaysia.

Read something in CMG and want to find it again? Maybe you just missed a feature article, or you're a new reader? Well, you'll no doubt be pleased as punch to know that we've now added a search option for CMG 3.0.

Plaisance, Quebec-based Prestige Auto Works normally builds 1,300-hp sports cars, but owner and designer Gerry St. Amour is also a motorcyclist, and has devoted considerable effort into building a three-wheeler called the Vertika.