Last year at the Motorcycle Show in Northern California, Mansoor Shafi of Roadgear asked me to try a pair of his new riding socks. He promised I could wear them ten days in a row, never wash them, and they won’t stink. I thought this was incredible and began thinking… Continue reading
Last spring Kari Prager, co-owner of the BMW/Triumph dealership in Mountain View, CA sent me an email saying a rider traveling from the southern tip of South America to New York would be stopping at his shop and did I want to meet her? I would and I did. Her… Continue reading
About six weeks ago an interview with David Hough in the BMW Owners magazine in which he highlighted the lack of a single comprehensive list of motorcycle training schools in the US, prompted me to begin putting such a list together. You can see it here. Since creating the list,… Continue reading
We are in the process of revising the site and adding lots more new content. Until it is done (say, mid-February) you really don’t want to visit here. The site will be a major mess with broken links and things generally not working. In fact, even navigating to this site… Continue reading
This month I’m working on an article about riding in groups. If would help me to get thoughts on this topic from highly experienced riders. I’d appreciate it if you could take this survey. The more broadly the link gets circulated, the better, so if people want to forward it… Continue reading
This just in from my friend “Seattle Bob,” who purchased a new Suzuki V-Strom a week or so ago: … in other news – I have decided the V-Strom 650 (ABS) is the best motorcycle in existence, period. The only things that aren’t great about it: windshield (fixable with aftermarket… Continue reading
Keith Code just posted a piece on his web site about crashing. It’s good. He explores some (bad) conventional wisdom on crashing, e.g. the fallacy in the above headline and this one: “There are riders who have fallen and those that are going to fall.” (We’ve all heard that one,… Continue reading
I just got off the phone with Brian Steel who’d called about his experience at Keith Code’s CA Superbike School. He loved riding the new Kawasaki ZX-6R but I think what he liked best was riding without having to worry about cars pulling out in front of him, trucks dropping… Continue reading
“Seattle Bob” and his bride, Willo, planned the ultimate motorcycle ride for members of the American Flyers Motorcycle Club in Washington state. I arrived in Seattle on September 9 and picked up a Yamaha FJR1300 and began a most awesome experience, which will ultimately be documented for sure on the… Continue reading
On my recent Washington State trip I met Roger Hansen. On a couple of occasions, we pulled Roger from his trusty (and beautiful) Harley and forced him to ride a couple of sportier bikes – a Honda ST100 and the Yamaha FJR1300, while at night filling him with stories of… Continue reading