A Slingshot Around Uncle
There is a way out.
Of half a dozen (or more) air bags and seat belt buzzers and back-up cameras and narc-you-out black boxes and automatic braking (soon to be a mandatory...
VW May Dump Ducati
Apparently, Volkswagen Group is considering selling off Ducati as the automaker seeks to streamline operations to fund a strategic overhaul after the emissions-cheating scandal, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
VW has...
Bike Basics: The Oil Change
One of the perks of owning a motorcycles is that routine maintenance is - usually - much easier to perform than a similar job on a car.
Oil and filter changes,...
Helmets, Again . . .
I've tried several times to make clear my point of view regarding helmets, on both practical as well as philosophical grounds. Do they "work"? Well, let's define what "works" means before...
Cycle Therapy
There are sound, practical reasons for owning a motorcycle that transcend fantastic gas mileage and low buy-in cost. I speak of the therapeutic aspects of motorcycle ownership.
Knowing you have one; that it’s...
Safety… Defined For You By Someone Else
One of the problems with "safety" laws is they amount to someone else's cost-benefit analysis. Someone else's favoring of more this vs. less of that. Someone else' determination that the Pros...
Thug Cop Shoots, Paralyzes Biker
You never who you are dealing with during a traffic stop.
That goes for the person being pulled as much as it does for the cop doing the pulling-over.
Motorcyclist Michael McCloskey, Jr....
Things Unseen…
The hand of Uncle - which aways wields a gun - distorts our lives in so many ways it's impossible to catalog them all. There are the things we're forced to have...
The Kz and the EV
Yesterday I did something I doubt anyone will be doing 46 years from now - at least, not with anything that's new right now.
That being throwing a leg over the saddle...
Doctoring the Sherpa
You may have the same problem I've got.
One of my bikes - a 2000 Kawasaki KL250 Super Sherpa dual sport - is a hard-starting son of a gun. Reason? It's jetted...