Don’t let neglect sting you
My wife isn’t that into motorcycles. She doesn’t mind going for a ride every now and again, and I’ve even gotten her to go on a few weekend trips. It’s OK, because it gives us …
BREAKING NEWS: BMW NA/BMW Canada order “stop sale” on gasoline-powered new and used motorcycles
Official statement from BMW NA, received Wednesday, 20 September 2023: “BMW of North America is dedicated to providing vehicles to our customers that meet their expectations. To ensure that our vehicles are of the highest …
Binoculars, blindness and invisibility
In recent years, I’ve regularly chosen gear bedecked with hi-viz yellow to increase my conspicuity on the road. I also added LED driving lights to my bike, more for this purpose than to augment nighttime …
Rubber Side Down, by Ron Davis
Well, he’s gone and done it again. Our very own Ron Davis has published another collection of his clever works, kindly saving us from having to page through shelves of BMW Owners News back-issues to …
Keeping Your Cool, Part 4: Lower Body
Earlier in this series, we discussed the basics of hot-weather motorcycling and the amazing effectiveness of some gear designed to exploit evaporative cooling of our necks, arms, and torsos. In Part Three, we focused on …
Keeping Your Cool, Part 3: Upper Body
Previously in this series, we discussed the basics of hot-weather motorcycling, the critical importance of keeping our brains from overheating and the outsized effectiveness of evaporative cooling neck wraps. Here’s a truly special piece of …
Keeping Your Cool, Part 2: Neck Wraps
In Part One of this series, we discussed the dangers of overheating, how our bodies naturally mitigate excessively high temperatures, and some methods motorcyclists have traditionally used in pursuit of the increased comfort and safety …
Keeping Your Cool, Part 1: The Basics
Last summer’s record-breaking heat provided plenty of impetus to investigate more ways to stay comfortably cool on our motorcycles. Surely all serious riders have already developed some method(s) for coping with high temperatures, but some …
10,000 Curves
The idea it takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve expert status was popularized in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book, Outliers: The Story of Success. It’s a misleading oversimplification to reduce his message to this one …
An (almost) little old lady at California Superbike School
What if there was something you could do to make you a safer, more confident, more comfortable rider? Of course, there is—motorcycle training! It’s one of those things most of us agree we need more …