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Have Bike Will Travel

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If you were to distill mechanized transportation down to its core essentials, you'd end up with something like the dirt bike - or its road-legal cousin, the dual-sport. Both are essentially...

Insurance Incongruity

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Having to buy car insurance - motorcycle insurance, in the case at hand - is bad enough. No one ought to be forced to buy anything. The fact that you get...

Anecdotal but Interesting

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To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . . that's the question! And there are several answers. I...

Helmet Laws

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If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write themĀ  - probably requires that you wear a helmet when you ride. If you don't,...

Motorcycle Clovers

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Regular readers of this column already know what a Clover is. It is someone who - among other things - refuses to move over to let traffic get by and go...

My Bike is Like an EV

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I was out riding my motorcycle the other day and it occurred to me - as I glanced at the odometer, which you do out of habit if you have a...

The Air Bag You Wear

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People ride motorcycles because they aren't cars - and this goes much deeper than the obvious. Motorcycles are free of almost all of the crap that has been forced into cars, most...

Some Therapy

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Sometimes brakes stop you - from going. It happens when the brake calipers clamp onto the rotors and don't let go. This happens, typically, because the pistons inside the calipers have gotten...

Hardly Able

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People who ride motorcycles still care about motorcycles - as opposed to all-too-many-drivers, who view cars as appliances. Who have been conditioned to view them as such. Evidence of this disparity in...

Waiting for Spring

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When the priests sealed the door on King Tut's tomb, the Pharaoh was left to sleep for the next 3,000 years. Spring often feels that far away in late December, as...
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