I don’t know about you but for me, the mornings are certainly not warming up anymore. It’s not cold yet but there is more and more morning dew and one of the problems it creates for me and my fullface helmet is that the visor tends to fog up, especially at traffic lights where there is no wind to clear it up.
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-Trapper
It doesn’t happen to me often but yesterday it did… I got caught i the rain, without my rain gear, a few miles before getting home. When riding to work, I have a backpack to carry my stuff but also my packed rain gear if there are chances of rain during the day. As I said earlier, most of the time I’m lucky as I don’t often get rained on during my 25 minutes commute to and from work. I ride my SV650S rain or shine.
Last year, my home town of Moncton, New Brunswick was host to the Atlantic Canadian HOG rally. Lots of great bikes and beautiful pieces of art.
There were some classics….
A Bit of Background
I’ve been wearing motorcycle helmets for about 14 years. When I started out on two wheels, I was riding a 50ccm roller (Piaggio Vespa), with a top speed of 50kmh/35mph. I needed to wear a helmet (there are mandatory helmet laws in most of Europe), and bought the cheapest lid I could find. Usually a low-end full-face.
Ok, I know the old saying “it is just like riding a bike”. Well let me point out that riding a motorcycle is not just like riding a bike. You just don’t hop on and go. You have to constantly ride and keep proficient in order to keep your skills up.
Too many times we see people who post on message boards that they “used to” ride about ten years ago and that they are jumping into it again with a C90, a VTX1800, a ‘Busa, a C50, a M50, or even a S40. The point I am trying to make here is not about the size of the bike, it is about staying proficient.
There was a recent thread in our forum about the things we motorcyclists enjoy when it comes to the culture and environment of motorcycling. Here are a few, written by Motorcycle-Journal.com forum members:
Aside from the feeling of riding, and the gas milage, i gotta say the thing i like most is the feeling of belonging to a group. - dichotomous
Kids are my one of my favorites. Just seems when I’m crusing some of the back roads, when there’s kids in the front lawn, they love waving and shouting (with big grins on their faces) at me and whomever I may be riding with. - Stasy
I like the individual freedom of being out there and not having to be going from point A to point B. - drgibson
How can any youngster with only a couple of years driving experience learn to ride a high powered sport bike? How can their reaction time be sufficient at high speeds to combat their lack of recognition of traffic patterns? You wouldn’t let your six year old play with a loaded hand gun, then why do we allow a twenty year old to drive a high powered sport bike? If you are able to ride a motorcycle on a closed circuit at over 100 mph, do you think you can ride the same machine on I-294 in Chicago at the same speed? Can you safely do it even at the posted speed limit with two dozen vehicles in your safety buffer? Read the rest of this entry »
Taking off from South Eastern New Brunswick, I merge onto the Trans Canada highway beside a guy in and Audi TT convertible; I can’t help feeling “This is going to be a great long weekend!” My wife and kids are at Girl Guide Camp and I’ve got the green light to spend the next three days with nothing but the clothes on my back, the supplies in my top case and two small saddle bags, and my 800 cc Suzuki Marauder. Read the rest of this entry »
Hang around motorcycle forums for a while and you’ll likely notice a few members who seem to rise to the forefront of most discussions about riding well. We’re proud to call Ross one of ours. He consistently offers sound advice stemming from his personal experience in motorcycling, both as a racer and as a motorcycle enthusiast. He’s also darned funny. We’ve asked him a few questions that we thought would help new motorcyclists understand what it’s about and entertain experienced riders with snapshots of the real world of motorcycling. Read the rest of this entry »
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