Mid-Life Rider

One of the popular misconceptions about the big K bikes (courtesy of testers who ride them for a day or two) is that they somehow don’t handle, or don’t handle as well as their obvious competitors.  Having put 24,000 miles on what many think is the best handling bike in the class, the mighty FJR, [...]

Talk about 15 seconds of fame. My good friend Bret Tkacs, co-owner with Christie of Puget Sound Safety sent me a link to this video. Fun soundtrack. At about two minutes you’ll see me, a tiny blob in black on my old SV1000S going down through the Ss at Seattle Raceway. [...]

Few, if any of us, were taught how to sit on a motorcycle. Or much of anything for that matter. As a result, we just go with what our bodies learned (squatting if we grew up in Asia, "sitting up straight" if we grew up here in the big PX) or what the motorcycle designers [...]

I have yet to go to Keith Code’s famous California Superbike School but I have read his books. A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding is a classic and should be read by anyone serious about staying alive on his or her bike. Here’s a clip from his [...]

I got out to the track three times in the summer of 2007 to Pacific Raceways near Seattle. Twice with the 2-Fast School, once with the folks at Puget Sound Safety. I’d been to the track before on my FJR . . . what a huge difference on the SV.
A couple of bits . . [...]