Earlier today a friend in Oregon emailed me on some business stuff. At the end he said, “I really want to learn and then get a motorcycle. If you were advising someone, what would you suggest for the learning process + the bike to get? He’d ask another motorcyclist the… Continue reading
Earlier today I read Gabe Ets-Hokin’s article “It Ain’t the Tool: Revisited” on motorcycle.com. I dropped him a note telling him I thought it was a good article. He replied, “Of course – because your bike won.” I got thinking about it, because in a way he was right, I… Continue reading
Midway through our product launch preparations at Krugle I heeded the call of Davis Bales of Brazil Moto Adventures and spent eight days riding with him on some of the best motorcycling roads in Brazil. It was a fabulous trip which I’ll cover soon in Motorcycle Consumer News. I also… Continue reading
I just heard from Keith Code that Reno Fernley Raceway, about 20 miles outside of Reno, has added a super technical new track, known as the “top track”. Per Keith’s note, the new section is perfect for training, a little under 2 miles, lots of corners, lots of laps and… Continue reading
Spending a quick weekend here in Phoenix before heading back to California and the intensity of getting a new company off the ground, I took my ’02 Honda Goldwing and ’05 Suzuki V-Strom for rides. Ever since beginning a serious upgrade to my riding skills about ten years ago, I… Continue reading
By Steve Larsen When MCN Editor-in-Chief Dave Searle called to check my interest on attending the Saxon Motorcycles 2006 launch event, I first wondered how many other writers had passed on the opportunity before he’d thought of calling me. My second thought was to wonder if he knew of my… Continue reading
Earlier today I got an email from Keith Code pointing me to some of his latest thinking on riding (article no longer on the net). In addition to being one of the best motorcycle instructors on the planet, Keith thinks deeply about nearly all aspects of riding. This article comes… Continue reading
This morning I met a group of bay area bikers at Buck’s restaurant in Woodside, CA and after breakfast, headed down to San Jose for the International Motorcycle Show. I still don’t have a regular ride here in the bay area so I drove down. It was raining, lightly (on… Continue reading
Category: Motorcycle Blog December 16, 2005 What’s got me thinking today is the amount of time between some of my motorcycle experiences and when they’re seen in print. Versus what happens in the blogging world. For instance, a couple of weeks ago the January 2006 issue of Rider Magazine arrived… Continue reading
…in which I take the Phoenix Police Officers Training course. Part 1 (1.7mb, May 2005) | Part 2 (2.0mb, June 2005) | Part 3 (2.5mb, July 2005)