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Versatility to the max to ensure every ride is an enjoyable one! Explore remote trails, enjoy mixed-surface adventures, or simply add a little more fun to your daily commute, the GASGAS ES 700 is a playful, do-it-all dual-sport performer. Mixing high-quality, street-legal performance with proven offroad capabilities, the ES 700 proudly brings the playful and vibrant GASGAS attitude to the street. And with its 13.5 liter fuel tank, comfortable riding position, high-spec equipment, and proven single-cylinder motor, there’s nowhere the ES 700 won’t go. How far you take it is up to you!
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Dunno if you’ve ever been fired, or laid off from a job, downsized, let go, or any combination thereof — but they say it’s one of life’s biggest traumas. I suppose that’s true. But after it happens to you enough times, you’re

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One hates to toot one’s own horn, but it’s way less gauche to quote other people tooting it. One Tuesday in 2014 I lunched with Peter Egan, who said I should be the guy to take over his beloved monthly column in what called itself the World’s Biggest Motorcycle magazine. No higher praise in my ears, I was truly humbled. That Friday, the then-World’s Biggest Motorcycle magazine fired me. (Not that anybody ever uses the word “fired” except Donald Trump; it’s always one of the above euphemisms.)

A week or two later I was happily re-employed with a big motorcycle website with an actual raise in pay but without a cubicle. We all worked remotely, which is how some of American Motorcyclist’s staff operates, too. So freeing…And that was good for nearly nine years, longer than I’ve held any job, so no complaints. Also, 22 percent of that workforce was let go along with me, which makes it feel slightly less personal.
I was sad for a few days until I reconnected with my old friend Mitch Boehm, who’d fired me in about 2001 from what was then the second-biggest motorcycle magazine in the U.S. There’s no need to rehash the particulars (but we probably will as we rekindle things), but I can admit I may have not been the most responsible person in the world when set free, all-expenses-paid, in Las Vegas for a bike introduction by a major motorcycle manufacturer.
