Cleaning Your Motorcycle for Safety’s Sake
Cleaning your motorcycle on a weekly basis will protect and enhance the look of your motorcycle and this cleaning process will force you to perform a detailed inspection to discover any loose parts, nuts and bolts, corrosion, wear and tear and tire condition. Always give your motorcycle a thorough cleaning before performing any detailing on paint, chrome and Plexiglas. Follow these simple steps to thoroughly clean your motorcycle.
My $200 Helmet: Gone In 60 Seconds
After the first two weeks with your new motorcycle and your new helmet, the day will come when you start getting tired of carrying your helmet into the grocery store or flopping it down on the restaurant table, announcing to the world that , "Yeah Buddy, that's my bike outside and I am the real deal!" Relax, nobody is noticing you and your helmet is not turning any heads. The helmet thrill is gone and now you want to know what do you do with your helmet when you leave your bike unattended at the cinema, the grocery store or the swap meet. You first solution is to take your new, expensive, shinny helmet with you when you leave your bike. But after lugging your helmet around with you for a couple of hours, you start looking for a more practical solution.
Motorcycle Rider Safety: Focus Radar
I am absolutely, 100% convinced that the key to safe riding is maintaining your focus. The weather, your skill level, your psychological well being and most of all, the traffic that surrounds you is exactly what you need to be focused on to ride safely. Accidents do happen but if you remain totally focused on what you are doing, you can minimize your rise and enjoy your ride.
Lets focus on the traffic around you. No matter if you are on city streets or on the interstate, your safety threat are the cars next to you. You can do a lot more than just watch out for these cars, you can try to anticipate which of these card/drivers are your biggest threat.
OMG! My Husband Wants a Motorcycle!
Just when you thought everything was going great, your husband announces that he is thinking about getting a motorcycle. Somehow you manage to keep a passive face while inside you are thinking "That's not going to happen, no way, no how, uh-uh, no motorcycles in this family." Or maybe you have always had a secret desire to get a motorcycle yourself and this announcement fits right in to your fantasy.
Whatever your initial reaction, once you sense that he is dead serious (oops, bad choice of adjective), you should probably get serious about what to do with this new obsession. In this blog I will give you all of the information you need and maybe some information that your husband should know. At the very lease you will be in a position to discuss motorcycle riding from an informed point of view.
Baby Boomers, Motorcycles, Fun & Safety
“You’ll kill yourself on that damn motorcycle!” I remember my mother’s words. And today?...
Check out my article just posted on the "BoomerCafe" web site! Now in its 10th year, BoomerCafé is one of the most popular online magazine for baby boomers! So go check out my article and then browse around Boomercafe and you will be surprised at all of the neat stuff you will find there. Very interesting and unique site. Check It Out!
Stuck at the Red Light…forever!
If you have not yet been stuck sitting in a left turn lane red light, don't worry, you will.
Everyone gets stuck some time or the other. When it happens to you, here's what you can do about it.
But first, what's happening anyway? why doesn't the light change? Well, as we all know (and if you don't, go sit in the corner for ten minutes - time out) there are wires under the road which detect the presence of cars and trucks waiting at the stop light. These wires feed data to the traffic light controller which actually turns the light red, yellow and green based upon the presets and the presence or absence of vehicles.
Motorcycle Rider Basics: Test Your Knowledge
Have you ever said to yourself, Wow, I wish I would have know that years ago, what a difference that would have made? I have. I hate re-inventing the wheel. Here are ten questions that will test your motorcycle rider basics.
They Can’t Hit You If You’re Not There
Well, Duh Frank, of course they can’t hit you if your not there but I have to ride in the real world and they are there, all of the time. I share the road with cars, trucks, buses, bicycles and anything else that happens along.
I understand, but what I mean is to keep yourself (and your bike) positioned out of the danger zone. You always have choices.
It's the same as riding too close to the car in front of you. If you are too close to the car in front of you and that car makes a sudden stop, you are going to hit it.
If you ride in blind spots, you are going to increase your "close calls" and eventually, get hit by a vehicle whose driver didn't see you there.
Look Where You Go & Go Where You Look
Understanding this concept is another critical piece of the riding puzzle. Go where you look means that, when riding, you (and your motorcycle) will go to wherever you are looking.
The formal term for this is “Target Fixation”.
Here are three examples;
How to Stretch Your $4 Gal of Gas
OK, my car gets 22 mpg on an average, that’s not too bad. It’s around 18 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway. I commute 40 miles roundtrip 5 days a week to work, or 200 miles per week. At $4.00 per gallon for gas, it cost me...
200 miles/22 mpg = 9.09 gal per week
$4.00 per gal X 9.09 gal = $36.36 gas cost per week
My motorcycle (HD FXDWG Wide Glide) gets 44 mpg or twice the mileage of my car. It is twice as efficient as my car when it comes to gas consumption. So, using the same commute to work mileage,
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