From a May 30, 2007 press release from J.D. Power and Associates, Arai helmets were ranked the highest in Customer Satisfaction for the ninth consecutive year. You can view the entire press release here.
Shoei helmets were a very close second followed by Scorpion in third.
The study also reports that the average price for a [...]
Over at Brain Bucket, there is a re-post of an article that appeared in The Star-Phoenix by Les MacPherson entitled “Buying Motorcycle My Way of Going Green”. You can find the post at Brain Bucket here.
In the article, MacPherson states,
It gets 45 miles to the gallon. If it also goes from zero to 100 [...]
Found this over at Guilty Truth, the blog site for Guilty Customs. Guilty Customs specializes in building “Retro-Mod” motorcycles. You can find the post here.
Covering the “10 Commandments of Motorcycling”, the post was just too good to pass up. Here it is for your enjoyment.
The Ten Commandments
1- The one true vehicle is [...]
Looking for another resource to help guide you to new motorcycle roads? If so, you can add MotorcycleRoads.us to your list. You can find the web site here.
As of this post, MotorcycleRoads contains listings for more than 2000 roads and over 118,000 miles of highway and aims to be “your one-stop resource for [...]
John over at Northwest Cycle News has a great post about the importance of some kind of motorcycle training prior to riding. You can find the post here.
A college student in Washington state is lucky to be alive after he crashed his motorcycle while trying to negotiate a turn on I-90 at 65 - [...]
Think you are a real biker? Wanna find out?
If so, head over to GoToQuiz and take the ‘R U a real biker?’ quiz. You can find the quiz here.
Simply answer the multiple choice questions, click on the submit button and you will be ’scored’ as a biker.
There are some pretty funny questions and answers [...]
If you are a woman rider and want some press exposure, here is your chance. It seems the Des Moines Register is doing a piece on women riders and is soliciting pictures and other info.
Here is the request, straight from the Register’s blog site.
June 4th, 2007 :: 12:31 PM
The Register is preparing [...]
Although they don’t field a football team (or any other athletic team that I can tell), Chopper College looks like a fun place to go. You can find their web site here.
So, what is Chopper College you ask? Well, according to info on the site, it is an intensive, three-day course that provides [...]
On a whim, I was wondering if there was anything out there dealing with the physics of motorcycling. A cursory search lead me to a book by Vittore Cossalter entitled ‘Motorcycle Dynamics’. You can find the book at Amazon here.
The 2nd edition of Motorcycle Dynamics gets excellent reviews, although it would appear that [...]
Well the largest biker rally in Texas is currently underway in Austin. That being the Republic of Texas (ROT) Rally.
Unfortunately for those of use unable to attend, apparently all those that are attending are having such a good time, that no news has surfaced on the happenings at the event yet. [...]
