Congratulations to Imperial Motorcycle’s Stefano Filangieri for obtaining his motorcycle technician’s Red Seal designation! Stefano joined the Imperial Motorcycles team while in high school, working summers detailing bikes and generally helping out at the shop during the busy season. His passion for motorcycles continued as did his...
What you see here are the bearings and bushings from a motorcycle's rear suspension linkage. As you see, everything is rusted and the needle bearings are pretty much bearings in name only. Years of hard use and no care has made them this way. When the...
This past summer a customer of ours rode through Oregon. On his return he told us of his adventures and gave us this really nice Oregon Road Map "FOR MOTORCYCLES". It has all sorts of interesting and helpful motorcycle tips on the back side. The map...
For those of you that follow all the different series of motorcycle racing may know the story. But in BSB the championship is down to Shane "Shakey" Byrne and Alex Lowes. On more than one occasion they have come in contact with each other on...
For those of you who are long time race fans you may recall the name Jamie Whitham, British racer extraordinaire. Who has overcome adversity more than once to keep doing what he loved, race motorcycles. A quick quote from Wikipedia: "In 1994 he raced full-time in the Superbike World...
by: Ted Bishop I read Riding With Rike 3-4 years back and found it a very entertaining read. As a instructor and enthusiast I liked how the motorcycle bug infected Mr. Bishop and how he evolved. However, this book is more than a motorcycle story, it's a...
[caption id="attachment_1980" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The current Ace Cafe' London"][/caption] This article was recently sent to us from a friend. Subject: Ace cafe, where the term "cafe racer" started This place is at the junction of the old A1 arterial road and the Northern “circular” road that circled London back...
The service team at Imperial motorcycles has over 60 years of combined expertise to help you with all your motorcycle inspection, maintenance and repairs in Burnaby, Vancouver, and the entire lower mainland. We are an Authorized and Designated ICBC Inspection Facility and ICBC Accredited Repair Shop...