Have Bike Will Travel
If you were to distill mechanized transportation down to its core essentials, you'd end up with something like the dirt bike - or its road-legal cousin, the dual-sport. Both are essentially...
Insurance Incongruity
Having to buy car insurance - motorcycle insurance, in the case at hand - is bad enough. No one ought to be forced to buy anything. The fact that you get...
Mad Max on Two Wheels
I am often asked what I think is the best kind of car to own if things get really bad. I think the best answer is a motorcycle.
In the first place,...
Anecdotal but Interesting
To use - or not to use - synthetic oil in engines made decades before synthetic oils were in common use . . . that's the question!
And there are several answers.
I...
They’re Coming for Bikes Next . . .
Most people who ride motorcycles do it because they want to. A motorcycle is - usually - not the primary instrument of transportation. It is what the rider uses when he...
A Casualty of Revenue Collecting
They say "speed kills." Here is a case-in-point.
A cop driving at very high speed struck and killed a motorcycle rider who had the bad luck to be in the wrong place...
Helmet Laws
If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write them - probably requires that you wear a helmet when you ride. If you don't,...
Motorcycle Clovers
Regular readers of this column already know what a Clover is. It is someone who - among other things - refuses to move over to let traffic get by and go...
My Bike is Like an EV
I was out riding my motorcycle the other day and it occurred to me - as I glanced at the odometer, which you do out of habit if you have a...
Sorry, it Isn’t . . .
It's important to be clear about what we're talking about - whether it's men and women or motorcycles and scooters.
The other day I read a review of an electric scooter that...