Buying a motorcycle is a lot like buying footwear. You have to consider the four Fs: fit, form, function, and finances. Check out our comprehensive guide on what to consider for your first bike.
Riding Right: What to Consider When Buying Your First Motorcycle
Riding motorcycles is a high-risk, high-reward sport. You have to overcome many factors to get the thrills and excitement while maintaining a safe environment. The goal is to maximize the payoff and minimize the risk to improve your safety and enjoyment.
Riding Right: Space Cushion Riding
Group riding increases the fun factor in motorcycling, but beware, it adds to the risk factor, too. If you’re going to ride in groups, read these 10 tips to make your group ride a safe and happy one.
Riding Right: Riding in a Group
Why do you want to learn to ride? How can you convince a friend to learn to ride? There are nearly as many individual answers to that question as there are individual people in the world.
Riding Right: Why People Ride a Motorcycle
Its never more important to see and be seen than it is when you ride at night. Here are several important considerations for safe riding after the sun goes down.
Why did the chicken cross the road? To see if you could swerve. Pot holes, road kill, an inattentive motorist who decides to make a left turn in that intersection right in front of you. If you ride a street motorcycle, the odds are extremely high that someday soon something will jump directly into your path of travel, and youll need to execute a swerve to avoid a collision.
Riding Right: Avoiding Hazards
Two women who recently passed the MSF class ask how to overcome their nervousness about venturing out on their own, and wonder what motorcycle to buy.
Riding Right: You Passed! Now What?
As a therapist and hypnotist I have a problem with a certain old biker adage. Most motorcyclists have heard it. “There are two types of bikers. Those who have been down and those who are going down.” From a psychological perspective this saying is potentially dangerous as it could create what clinicians call a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Riding Right: Getting Back in the Saddle After An Accident
Starting out on a hill can be tricky. Have you ever been stopped on a hill behind a truck or car that has rolled backward toward you? Its a little unsettling. Vehicles with manual transmissions may roll back from a dead stop on a hill. And motorcycles are no exception.
Riding Right: An Uphill Battle
The friction zone is the small wonder in the big world of motorcycling. Youll use it every time you ride. But how do you find it?
Riding Right: The Friction Zone: Just What Is It, Anyway?