Category: riders

Four women, adventure bikes, and a 49th state.

The road to Alaska. Frontier cabins dot the landscape like half-rotten skeletons, remnants of the Canadian rush to the gold fields, adventurers of the past, long forgotten. Fresh electric green leaves on the birch trees contrast with the dark, dusty green, deciduous pine forests, each fighting for space on the foothills around us. Mountain peaks […]

Would motorcyclists tolerate intelligent speed-governing systems?

Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) systems monitor an automobile’s speed by utilizing vehicle-mounted cameras and GPS data. The technology sends audible or haptic warnings to the driver when they exceed the posted speed limit. Some systems even add pedal resistance or bypass the operator to limit the vehicle’s velocity (drivers can override all ISAs by pressing […]

Arizona Legalizes Lane Filtering

Utah Sees Success, Extends Their Own Lane Filtering Laws. Arizona has been eying the success Utah has been experiencing with their lane-filtering experiment – and as of last week, they’ve started Utah’s renewal of the practise. “ABATE of Arizona put up a strong showing to successfully get this law signed,” says the American Motorcyclist Association’s […]

How To Remove And Preserve Stickers From Your Motorcycle

The bikes like Ducati Scrambler still come with a few warning labels that disrupt the clean lines of that bright red trellis frame. Removing them is pretty easy, but preserving them is the real trick. Three out of four “tools” you need are items you probably already have kicking around the house: hairdryer rag wd40 […]

12 Things you can’t forget in your next bike trip this spring

Spring season is here! Now we can take a break from normal life and try something out of our routines and hit the road with our bikes. This season is more demanding due to the weather and you will need to arrange some things before taking a long ride. Take a look! Cash: along the […]