Posted in riding tips on Feb 1st, 2012
Body position is one of the hardest things to re-calibrate once you’ve been off the bike for a few days. This is especially true for sport bikes, race bikes, anything with clip-ons. Notice what Rossi does when he sits on a new bike… He gets down in a full tuck. You [...]
Posted in riding tips on Sep 21st, 2011
[Posted this video before - but it's worth a second look!]
More and more, recently, I think it’s useful and important for riders to be able to get off the seat a bit in order to keep the bike more upright. Especially if you’re riding all year round over wet leaves and construction gravel on [...]
Posted in riding tips on Jul 14th, 2011
[Goofy Elvis vid]
In the old Elvis movies, race car drivers would just step on the gas a little further and win the race. Of course, in real life we know it doesn’t work that way… But we still carry some of this goofy line of thinking. ‘When you want to pass someone [...]
Posted in newbie, riding tips on Mar 17th, 2011
What’s your best advice for someone new to riding on the highway? When I started riding a bike, I had driven more than 200k miles in a car (I’d been driving long distances since I was 16), so highway riding didn’t seem daunting to me. In some ways, it’s safer and more predictable than local [...]
Posted in riding tips on Mar 17th, 2011
I don’t know when the last time was I heard someone use the horn button on a motorcycle. I have no idea what the horn sounds like on most bikes. And to be honest, if I had to find it quickly, I don’t know if I’d be able to find the horn button right away [...]
Posted in riding tips on Jan 20th, 2011
It’s been years since we’ve had such regular snowfall in NY… Normally there are only a couple of days in the winter when it’s too slippery to ride, but this year we’ve had half a dozen. And with more snow scheduled for Friday on top of the icy slush that’s already out there, it might [...]
Posted in riding tips on Jan 6th, 2011
For students of of the riding craft, here’s a quick lesson from motorcycle legend (or moto-madman) Randy Mamola. I saw this old pic on Motoblog, and thought it was something… Mamola is known today for taking pillions around the track for out of the seat rides on a Ducati MotoGP bike… His trademark was a [...]
Posted in riding tips on Aug 18th, 2010
Ever wonder how fast the pros go? If you’re on the east coast you probably don’t get to ride Laguna Seca, but we do have an AMA track in southern Jersey, so check it out. Here’s a video from OTT I’ve been meaning to post, but it took me forever to find it [...]
Posted in riding tips on Jul 28th, 2010
There’s more than one good riding school out there, but these guys are among the best. I mean who else could get Valentino Rossi to come do a training video? And this promo is slick. Which is important…because attending a track school should not only be educational, but it should also feel like a dream [...]
Posted in riding tips on May 24th, 2010
Braking is difficult to improve. Most people develop an intuitive sense for straightening up and not locking the wheels, but still…even under a controlled setting, most of us would have trouble keeping up (or down) with the braking distance of a typical sedan with ABS. And because the act of braking is so time sensitive, most [...]
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