I throw the Harley-Davidson Sportster Nightster into the corner, hard and fast enough that it wobbles on Quebec’s pavement chop. This will pass, but sometimes a little active intervention helps – we throttle on out of the apex to a scrape of the peg. A long straight and the little Sportster’s needle brushes 160kph, this Harley-Davidson/Best Western press tour hasn’t been going to plan, but thundering down the straight and setting up for the next corner I can’t help but crack a smile.

The rocks are rounded, smoothed and damp with the morning’s cool fall dew.  The road has seen water, and lots of it, in its tenure as both tributary and means of conveyance.  In the face …

This is not how it should be, no, not at all. This is a Harley Davidson and frankly I’m shocked.There is no hint of an engine carved from cast iron and suspension made of …

The fuel injection light flicks off giving me the OK to fire up the Buell XB12S Lightning.  I thumb the ignition button and it shudders to life.  Which answers the first question people ask about …