Gravel in a corner, tar snakes on your line, wet leaves this time of year, and painted lines after it rains are some of the most common surprises a rider finds mid-corner. Most training focuses on avoiding them, but sooner or later you’ll find one with the bike already leaned over. In this video, I…
Cold weather riding takes more than heated gloves and a warmer jacket. When the temperature drops, your motorcycle tires take longer to build grip, and your cold hands make your braking and throttle inputs slower and rougher than you realize, even if you’ve been riding for decades. In this video, we talk about what cold…
Brake checking a tailgater on a motorcycle might feel like the right way to get a driver off your bumper, but it puts nearly all the risk on the rider. In this video I share a real road-rage encounter that started with nothing more than a flash of my taillights and ended with a driver…
Riding a motorcycle that isn’t yours, whether it’s a rental on a tour, a demo ride at a dealership, or a new bike you just brought home, takes more adjustment than many experienced riders expect. Your hands learned the clutch and front brake on your own bike, and those habits don’t carry over the way…
Riding at night feels more dangerous, but the reason usually isn’t the one people assume. In this video we look at three real reasons night riding is riskier than day riding: how far your headlight actually lets you see and react to what’s ahead, why the odds of sharing the road with an impaired driver…
Riding in a group changes how you make decisions on a motorcycle, and most riders don’t notice it happening until the leader gets it wrong. In this video I tell a real story from a motorcycle dealership demo ride in Dallas, where the group leader made a last-second wrong turn in heavy highway traffic that…
Reaction time, vision, and grip strength all change as you get older — and most riders never adjust their technique to keep up with it. In this video, a clip of Hulk Hogan pulling a motorcycle into a parking lot raises a simple question: if it wasn’t strength holding that bike up, what was? Whether…
Years of seat time build reflexes you don’t have to think about anymore, but muscle memory doesn’t check whether the move underneath it is correct. In this video I walk through a real crash from one of my MSF training classes: a rider who was doing everything right. I break down the physics of exactly…
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Riding in a group feels safer than riding alone — more eyes on the road, more people looking out for you. But the habits that keep you safe solo don’t automatically carry over once four or five other riders fall in behind you, and most riders never notice the difference until something goes wrong. In…