Motorcycle Tips


I’ll Bet You’ve Never Thought of This…

Eventually, you’ll try anything to clean your motorcycle parts with. It could be because you’re out of your favorite product and can’t get it locally that weekend, it could be that you’ve finally gotten tired of all the elbow grease needed to get some kinds of cleaners to actually polish chrome or stainless, or maybe […]


Stop Asking Me and Learn for Yourself

We’ve all been there – out on the road and you stop for a Coke and a smile and they come out of the woodwork. Posers, Wannabes, and the genuinely curious – all with questions about bikes and bikers and “how do I learn to ride a motorcycle?” Some of them I tell just to […]


Getting Your Ride Ready for the Road

So here we are, it’s time to drag the bike out and you haven’t done anything that you said you would. You filled up the tank and slammed it in the garage where it’s been lying buried under a tarp since the end of October and now the weather has warmed up and you’re itching […]


Flipping an Older Harley Davidson Sportster 883

Over the years, I’ve shared a lot of restoration ideas for you guys and the latest scheme was the Cushman Truckster. That didn’t work out, but it sure sounded like fun. Unfortunately, I suffer from scanning the online classified like Craigslist for stuff like old cars and bikes to play with and, from time to […]


Winterizing Your Bike the Right Way

Now, we’ve certainly discussed winterizing your ride time and again, but as that magical time of year draws near (and already has for some of you) I wanted to add in a little final thought about the whole thing. Now that we’re about to be suffocated with Christmas Carols and holiday cheer, make a different […]


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Motorcycle Battery Storage Tips

By now, almost everybody knows that I live way down south in the United States where “cold” is very relative and I have the luxury of riding year ‘round. On the other hand, just about ALL of you guys live north of me and for most of you, that means that you have winterized your […]


The Art of Cornering on a Big Bike

Now that Fall is here and we begin our own little migration to the switchbacked mountain roads to look at leaves but really, we just want to corner aggressively and have a fun day, we need to talk about something. Plenty of newer riders have no idea how to corner aggressively in a big V-twin. […]


Buying New Tires for Your Motorcycle

Well fellas, for any of you that ride more than trailer, Sturgis is almost on top of us. Even if you have a trailer queen, you still want to look good and run smooth, and that all starts with tires. I’d noticed that the tires on the Sportster were getting a little thin, so I’ve […]


Uh-Oh! Motorcycle Fender Bender How-To

Howdy, boys and girls. Now that virtually all of us are out on the road, the sad truth is that some of us are going to have a little fender bender. A slow lay down, a knockover in the parking lot, something is going to happen.  In fact, we talked about this in answering a […]