Chronicles
If octane is good, is more better?
Have you ever taken your baby to the gas station and decided to treat her? (I'm talking about the bike, of course.) So you pull up to the pumps and go for the highest octane you can get. After all, nothing's too good for your bike, or is it? What's special about higher octane fuel? More power? Better gas mileage? Longer engine life? Most of us know...
Renting the American Dream
Logistics. When used in conversation, the word is often accompanied by depressing qualifiers (nightmare, headache, royal pain in the...), assembled references that essentially mean "bummer," a term you shouldn't have to use when it comes to your hard-earned vacation and riding time. We work hard all year for those coveted two or, if you're lucky, three...
The Barber Vintage
Which motorcycles would you most like to see? Maybe that first bike you owned or the one Dad or Granddad rode during the war. Maybe you want to examine a legendary, historic or a one-of-a-kind ride? If you could see them all in one place, up close and personal, would the destination be worth the trip? In the case of the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum...
Cornercraft: Staying Safer in the Swerves
The Hurt Report identified one of the most common single-vehicle motorcycle accidents as “a slideout and fall due to overbraking or running wide on a curve due to excess speed or under-cornering.” Barring unexpected intrusions, mechanical failure or changes in surface, you should never crash in a curve – as long as you take care of...
Bill Mayer Saddles
If memory serves me, the main character in "The Six Million Dollar Man" hailed from Ojai, California. You remember him, Colonel Steve Austin, in that totally cool 70s series about a pilot "barely alive" after an airplane crash. Rebuilt from bionic parts by Dr. Rudy Wells, he was deemed to be "better, stronger, faster." Go ahead and hum the theme, you...
The World of the Triumph Thruxton 900
The Thruxton 900 is a tribute to the days when a motorcycle was about rebellion and freedom, instead of a fat wallet. Welcome to an England of a bygone era.ThruxtonRace CircuitThe first race was held at a former air base in Hampshire in 1952. In 1968, it took its present form as a 2 1/3 mile circuit, and is considered the fastest in Great Britain. The...
Left Side Story
It happened to me; it can happen to you.Pulling out of a gas station in Tasmania, Australia, onto the A2 road skirting the island's north coast with no other traffic in sight, I accelerate briskly, shifting the 900 Diversion into fifth gear. We settle into a comfortable cruising speed and I'm thinking about the meat pie I'll have for lunch when......
Unlimited Horizons
After an article in RoadRUNNER whets your appetite for traveling have you ever wondered where you could meet like-minded people with the same spirit of adventure? Do you need some encouragement to pursue your dreams? One particular website, www.horizonsunlimited.com, was constructed with just those questions in mind. Founded by a Canadian couple, Grant...
Road Bites
Got the munchies? We've all been there: it's mid-afternoon at a gas station. You missed lunch, and breakfast is a distant memory. No problem – there's plenty of food in the store: chips, pop tarts, candy bars. You eat your fill, wash it down with diesel-flavored coffee, and hit the road. For an hour you feel bloated, then you're starving again....
Exploring the Lincoln Highway on a Vintage Honda
In 1915, just two years after completion of America's first coast-to-coast highway, The Complete and Official Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway advised, "Given fair weather, and with the exercise of reasonable care and caution in your preparation for the tour...your trip across the Lincoln Highway should be neither perilous nor unduly hazardous." With...
