Riding my Honda Shadow 600 around Marshall. From apartment to near airport, including a few laps around the Marshall circle. Video quality isn’t as good as possible because the camera view was through a dirty windscreen. Stops in apartment complex were brake check. Swerves on Michigan Ave. were to avoid manhole cover that I dislike. Driver on circle ahead of me was apparently lost and did 540 degrees of rotation.

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When riding a motorcycle, make sure to grab the clutch and push down with the foot in order to down shift. Learn more about down shifting on a motorcycle from an experienced motorcyclist in this free sports bike video.

Expert: Jared Cummings
Bio: Jared Cummings has been riding motorcycles all his life. He is on a professional stunt team called Team Skar.
Filmmaker: Caleb Labarda

Duration : 0:1:11

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When motorcycle riding, practice figure eights in order to practice turning techniques in both directions. Learn more about motorcycle riding and figure eights from an experienced motorcyclist in this free sports bike video.

Expert: Jared Cummings
Bio: Jared Cummings has been riding motorcycles all his life. He is on a professional stunt team called Team Skar.
Filmmaker: Caleb Labarda

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I live in the dallas ft. worth area and I was wondering how I could go about finding people to ride with. I was on 360 last night at around 1130 and saw a bunch of bikers just cruising but they got off and I kept going cause I had somewhere to be. but does anyone know of any way to find them again. I plan on going to that same spot next friday to see if they are there again. but any other suggestions would be appreciated.

When I lived in Texas I was a member of the Gypsy MC.You can try their website, they have a bunch of chapters in Texas.They are an AMA sanctioned club and a great club to be associated with.
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I am planning to ride a motorcycle from DC to Florida in early January. I live in Florida and I am going to DC in December, and I will buy a motorcycle there. I want to ride it all the way back on January 10. I assume it is going to be freezing cold. Has any of you tried this? Is it feasible? I just don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars for shipping the motorcycle.

Please help.
Thank you.

I used to ride from Missouri to Florida every year in late winter. The coldest was when I left Missouri on January 31 @ 25F. The first 4 miles was packed snow but the rest of the riding was on dry roads. I put on 500 miles the first day and was suffering from hypothermia even with a full dress bike and wearing snowmobile gloves, electric vest, 2 pairs of jeans, insulated underwear top and bottom, sweater, hooded sweatshirt, heavy duck insulated coveralls, leather jacket over that, insulated rubber work boots and a balacave over my face. Oh, and a helmet. I looked like the Michelin man. The highest temp was 39F but it was the long term exposure to the cold without physical activity that got me cold. By that evening, my hands were so cold that when clutching, it was either on or off because I couldn’t modulate the lever. My thinking processes were slightly impared, but not excessively. I got a motel and had to soak in a tub of warm water for a half hour to stop shivering.

If you’re going to do it, you must have a good windshield if you plan on riding any distance at all and wait (or hope) for a warm spell. Layers of clothing is the secret, electric clothing helps immensely and leather breaks the wind without trapping body moisture inside like plastic does. Stop often to eat hot foods and drink warm fluids. Forget coffee because that’ll make you have to pee and take my word for it, digging through five layers of clothing for the puckered up little guy is taxing to say the least. If the bike has no fairing or only a little sport type fairing, forget the idea of making any kind of miles.

As mentioned, look at shipping the bike, buying closer to home or if oyu know anyone in the DC area, see if you could hire someone to take your bike with theirs when they go to bike week at Daytona. You could probably save money and the person would be able to cover some of their gas bill on the way down.

Is it better to pull in clutch and lightly apply rear breaks while coasting, or keep lightly on the throttle and hope that the hill doesnt get any steeper? I have been doing the latter, but it seems kinda dangerous…

Are we talking street? Simply ride the bike like always, just avoid trail braking into the corners as the bike will already have more weight on the front end. So get your braking done before the corner (when the bike is straight up and down) enter the corner with a little positive throttle so the weight is shifted to the rear wheel. There it is the secret to hauling ass in downhill twisties.

A look at my helmet, gloves, and jacket after a nasty highside.

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The Travel Channel has a great new programme: World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides, by Henry Cole. He makes these rides on a Saxon! He likes the looks of the semi custom bike and more important, the bike drives smoothly and comfortably.

US Highway 1, one of the most famous coastal rides in the world, hugs the west coast from San Francisco to Laguna Beach. Its 650 miles length is steeped in American history and iconography. There is adventure and luxury to experience in equal measure and the only way to feel the true sense of freedom and escapism is to ride it not drive it. If there is one route that delivers riding the American dream it has to be Highway 1.

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On a sunny morning in early December at EVS23, AutoblogGreen got a chance to test out a prototype Brammo Enertia motorcycle. How did it go? How ’bout awesome?

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Virtual motorcycle riding into a sunset, lightning storm and heavy rain, between Carlyle and Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada.
VRIDETV.com is Virtual Riding Television.
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Imagine mounting a high definition camcorder to the handlebars of a motorcycle then riding across the second largest country in the world. With this point of view you will experience the sensation of riding through ten provinces of Canada, coast to coast, round trip, for a total of 18,795 kilometers. This trip may be over but the riding and filming continues………………………………….
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