You Shift Gears With Your Left Foot
Introduction
The following is certainly nothing new for an experienced motorcyclist. However, people brand new to motorcycling and those who are on the outside of motorcycling, will find that bikes are quite different from cars.
The following assumes modern motorcycles and cars driven on the right side of the road. This does not apply completely to motor scooters.
Over the last 100+ years of motorcycle history, there have...

Here's a great story from Sean Blankert.

Safe riding is no Accident
The first time I rode a motorcycle was when I was 12 years old. A younger friend of mine, Glen, who was the closest neighbor to us in the Sandia mountains of New Mexico where I grew up, had parents who rode motorcycles. They bought him and his sister Dina Honda 150 dirt bikes, and Dina never rode hers. Somehow Glen conned me into hopping on his sister's bike, telling me that first gear was one down,...

When purchasing a new motorcycle helmet do you go for style design, comfort or safety? Let me walk you through the different styles of motorcycle helmets and why safety can also be stylish. There are many different designs that we have to choose from. We also have the access to pick different material and different designs we have graphic, airbrush , chrome, carbon fiber , and leather.

Real Chrome
1. Cost Much More To Process
2. Three Layers of Metal
3. Virtually...

How Well Do You Know Your Motorcycle?

Learning about your bike will pay off in the end

By Jeff Cobb, Jul. 08, 2009



Far better designs and production quality have made modern motorcycles pretty reliable. Numerous fail-safe features and improved technologies make it theoretically less likely that a malfunction could put you...

just under a year ago a mate of my boyfriend took him out for a riding lesson. his mate has a 600 candy blue ninja. my boyfriend has riden it before but not at any speed. they took it on a private road. after getting up a bit of speed (prob a bit too much) he (my boyfriend) hit an unmarked speed bump and went flying through the air.

what was the damage?

bike - scuffed and scraped left fairing, snaped left handle bar, scuffed left grab rail plus a bit more. did however...