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Top tips for riding with a passenger

February 2nd, 2012 Admin

Riding with a passenger can be a great experience for both the rider and the pillion.
Nevertheless many riders don’t have significantly experience with carrying a passenger and can wrongly assume that it’s company as usual! Here we give some crucial suggestions on how to get the very best out of riding with a passenger.

Before the ride:

Just before you even begin your journey you may possibly want to make some adjustments to your bike. Check the suspension settings in your manual or consult your motorcycle dealer. You will also need to check the tyre pressures are sufficient.

Invest some time discussing the ride with your passenger. This is specifically essential if they have never ridden pillion before. Tell them to lean with the bike and not to fight it!

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How to Increase your Motorcycle Gas Mileage

February 1st, 2012 Admin

Its really interesting to read statistics of some of the most utilized motorcycles, a very good motorcycle riding at an average speed should average at least 41-45mpg whilst if you push it, consuming over 60mpg will just be the norm rather than the exception. Gas mileage refers to the energy efficiency of a specific vehicle. Gas Mileage is the output of ratio of range units per unit of gasoline. This ratio is measured as L/100 km, or miles per gallon. Gas mileage depends on engine of vehicle i.e. properties of engine, vehicle body weight.

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Touring Mighigan’s Upper Penninsula By Motorcycle

January 31st, 2012 Admin

1 of the reasons I ride is for the spirit of facing the road and life with a can-do attitude, and yet another is for the joy of seeing the landscape unfold. If that’s component of your riding psyche, too, you’ll feel proper at house in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, or “The U.P.” as the locals call it. Stretching 310 miles from Sault Ste. Marie near its eastern end to Ironwood near its western border, it’s a wild land separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Mackinac Bridge, and from Detroit (293 miles to the south) by main cultural differences.

I was born and raised in Michigan’s western Lower Peninsula, and can keep in mind in grade school singing the unofficial state song, “Michigan, My Michigan” (to the tune of “Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum”). In the 1970s I utilized to ride up into the U.P. on vacation. Despite a move to California far more than 30 years ago I still return to my hometown, but had not been back to the U.P. since 1975. That’s why I was specifically enthused about the chance to ride there for a couple of fall days last October.

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