Motorcycle Safety and Fun Tips

To some, a motorcycle is a freedom. It's the wind in your hair and on your leather motorcycle vest. It's the open road in front of you and behind. It embodies the feeling of being alone, with no one to ask permission or question first before changing plans on a whim. But before you can be alone and earn a sense of self, you must learn to be safe. If you don't learn safety, you won't be on the road for very long.

Mindset

To learn how to be safe on a motorcycle, you must develop the right mindset. It doesn't matter how many driving or vehicle safety classes you take; if you have the wrong mindset while driving, you'll endanger yourself and others. Motorcycles can be tools to drive you around the city and on the road. Or they can be the tools that you disrespect, leading you to paralyzation or early death.

Commitment

When you board a motorcycle, you have joined the road and its many other drivers. Even though some may feel differently, the road is a shared space, and it's a privilege to be there. You, along with all other riders, must be committed to riding well and defensively. It's also a big reason why a rider buys Motorcycle Rain Gear. A good rider protects both themselves and other people.

Practice

Once you develop a proper mindset towards the open road and the other traffic on it, then you can finally hit the streets and start practicing your necessary skills. You must also have the proper attire, like a Motorcycle Protective Jacket. Whether you choose an empty parking lot or an eight-lane highway, since you now understand the responsibility of riding, you'll be less of a danger to yourself and others.

Your Actions Affect More Than Just You

Reckless riding kills more than 13,000 people a year in the U.S. These are deaths that were avoidable if the rider cares a little bit more about the people around them. Even if reckless riders aren't under the influence of alcohol, they can still be distracted by looking at their smartphones, eating while traveling down the road, and paying attention to their surroundings instead of keeping their eyes on the their portion of the road. A study completed by the Texas A&M University's Transportation Institute reveals that looking at your smartphone double the average rider reaction time, from two seconds to four seconds. And when it comes to traffic accidents, a split second can save or kill someone.

Even listening to music while riding on your motorcycle can prevent you from hearing other reckless rider approaching you from behind, running red lights, and skidding down the road.Some riders play their music so loud they cannot hear ambulance sirens or train horns until they're in their line of vision. This can also cause accidents and traffic blockages.

Safety Fashion

Everyone who's ever seen a motorcycle on the road knows that the riders must have a helmet on. But helmets aren't the only piece of protective gear riders should have.

You can't ride a motorcycle in just jeans and t-shirt, no matter how many movies depict their cool main character doing so. If you want to protect your brain and vital organ from splattering all over the freeway, you need to buy protective motorcycle riding gear. Clothes that are designed from riding a motorcycle have more padding and are made of more durable materials. You can purchase armored clothing, back protectors, chest protectors, and airbag vests to reduce injury when you're knocked off your bike. Don't wait to

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Loading a Motorcycle into a Truck: Tips & Tricks

You need to move your motorcycle to another location, maybe to a motorcycle shop for repairs, the race track it is race day, or you might need a ride home. You decide to haul the bike to the chosen destination rather than ride, you need to load it safely into a truck or trailer. There are usually more ways than one to skin-a-cat the same goes for loading your motorcycle into a truck or trailer. If you are loading the bike for race day take your Leather Motorcycle Jacket and Leather Motorcycle Pants for max protection.

What Method Are You Going To Use?

 

What is meant here, are you going to use a loading ramp designed for loading bikes into the bed of a truck? Are you going to use an incline, like a short hill, a ditch, or even a loading dock? Opting for a ramp to load the bike into your truck, van or trailer. It is your choice based on what is readily available for you to use.

Equipment

 

How many times have you heard of someone getting injured when trying to load a motorcycle, once is too many. The first things to get together are the tools and equipment to safely load your bike into a truck, trailer, or whatever.

The Hauling Vehicle

 

If you are using a pickup truck it might work best to completely remove the tailgate so you won’t damage it and the loading process is safer. The lower to the ground the truck is the easier it is to load the bike, preferably a long box. Say a two-wheel drive or a 4X4 that is not lifted your choice.

You may want to use a van or a trailer designed to transport bikes with a weight rating that will get the job done. Note the wheel mount in front of pickup bed secured by ratchet straps.

The Loading Ramp

 

Note the loading ramp and the 4X6 to walk the bike up.

The ramp should be long enough to make loading the bike an easy process, too short you will have to lift and push harder. A long ramp that is arched makes it easier to load a bike and does not catch the low frame of touring or road bike. Make the ramp safe so it won’t shift under the weight of the bike, secure it with two ratchet straps from each side of the axle. 

If the ramp is a narrow one just one ratchet strap will do. Just make sure the ramp is up to the job and can support the weight of the bike that is being loaded. One other thing, loading a bike into a truck or van may go smoother if you employ the help of a riding buddy, a friend, or someone to help.

Loading the Bike

 

Loading the bike is where things can go wrong and damage can occur, to you, your loading mate, the truck, or the bike, be safe and take your time. If you are loading on flat ground a long arched ramp will work best. One pushing the bike from the back, the other walking beside the bike so the front brake can be used to keep the bike from rolling back.

The bike can be walked into the truck with considerable ease. This method works for bike trailers and vans as well. If you have chosen to use a hill, an incline, or a ditch the bike can be rolled into the conveyance with little effort expended.

Making the Bike Secure Once Loaded

 

Note the straps front & rear of bike.

Before you load the bike there should be something to support the front wheel already in place. A tire stand works very well, you can construct something from 2X4s, or heavy plywood. Anything to set the front wheel in that will hold the bike steady during transportation.

Wheel stands work great for supporting the front wheel. Some people do not like drilling holes in their truck beds so you can use ratchet straps to hold the front wheel support in place. Use ratchet straps to secure the front of the bike to the truck bed and do the same at the rear of the bike. 

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Lessons You Can Learn From Owning an Exotic Motorcycle

You want to get an exotic motorcycle, not the usual Japanese sportbike. Here are some things to consider that could become hard lessons learned.

Dealership

The Does the dealership perform warranty work on this exotic?

              

You go to a local dealership to look over the exotic bikes in stock and there it is just the right bike for you, so you think. You see the MSRP is within your budget and you ask for a test ride, fine, but only around the dealership’s lot. You came prepared to take the test ride on the street and wore your Men Motorcycle Leather Jacket and Men Leather Motorcycle Pants with full armor.

The salesman starts it up for you and the engine runs really smooth, you don your helmet, ask the gear configuration. You hop on and take a couple of laps around the lot, the bike handles well, you are satisfied. You start negotiating the price, the salesman usually takes your offers to his sales manager three or four times.

Finally, the salesman returns with an acceptance of your offer. Not exactly what you wanted but it is close enough to what you were looking for, you accept. You get hustled to the finance officer’s office and he starts going over the details of the purchase contract. He wants you to purchase an extended warranty for an extra year over the manufacturers already two-year warranty.

You decline the extended warranty, telling the finance officer the manufacturer's two-year warranty will do. The FO says fine, you sign the paperwork, hand them your down payment, sign the remaining paperwork, the bike is now yours. The salesman hands you the keys and you take your new exotic ride home.

For further details please read: ‘Exotic, Inexpensive Motorcycles, How to Get One for Yourself?

What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

Does the dealership still sell this exotic bike?

                  

You have been enjoying your new exotic ride for a couple of months now and there are some issues developing. On long rides, the bike is faltering, not running smoothly and sometimes even shuts down. You haven’t ridden the bike that hard so you suspect factory flaws are beginning to arise. You call the dealership’s service department, explain the problem, ask when you can schedule a warranty diagnostic and service to solve the problem.

The service department manager tells you the dealership does not do warranty work on the make of the bike you bought from them. On top of that, he says the dealership no longer sells that make of exotic motorcycle. As we all know dealerships can be in business one day and be gone the next.

First lesson: You may not have done enough research to find out the relationship between the manufacturer and the dealership.

Do your homework when choosing a dealership.

Second Lesson: You did not inquire with the dealership if they actually did warranty work should the need arise.

Investigate whether or not the dealership is in solid with the manufacturer they represent and that they perform warranty work.

Seek Help from Other Exotic Bike Owners

You better have all your bases covered this exotic sells for $120,000.

           

Search the web, find out if there are any support groups or blogs that write about the model of exotic bike you are getting. You can learn from these other bike owners the problems they had and how they resolved them. With the social media networks, blogs, and community chat rooms on the internet finding others with the same problem as yours is easy.

Lesson Three: Having a support network with others who have the same exotic bike as you, finding fixes for warranty issues can be easy.

Instead of your bike being in a shop for a week or so over warranty issues the problem is fixed quickly and you can ride on. Wicked Stock is the place to go to find deals on motorcycle gear to go along with the new exotic bike.

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