As planned, we hit the June 20th Triumph demo event at SoCal Motorcycles to put two highly anticipated machines through their paces: the Daytona 660 and the 765 RX. Both of these bikes are beautiful, wonderful pieces of engineering, but getting them out on the road revealed two distinctly different personalities. Here are our first impressions from the saddle. The Daytona 660: Sane, Manageable, and Functional Going into this demo, the Daytona was my first full sport-bike expe

When you realize your current cruiser platform has reached its hard mechanical limits, you don't just guess at the replacement, you collect data. To figure out exactly how a performance chassis should handle under load, I launched a relentless campaign, hitting every manufacturer demo event I could track down. From regional cruiser meetups to testing adventure bikes in the high desert dirt, and finally throwing legs over premium European scalpels, here is the raw telemetry fr

Most motorcycle lifestyle blogs will tell you that riding is about the wind in your hair, scenic weekend getaways, and escaping the mundane. They paint a picture of a shiny, care-free hobby. This is not that kind of blog. If you are looking for polished influencer content or corporate motivational speeches, you are in the wrong place. Tensile Racing was born out of a different reality. It was forged from structural steel, asphalt friction, deep psychological scar tissue, and