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Your riding confidence and speed will improve from getting track experience, but that experience is artificial. A dry track is clean and a controlled environment. The danger in testing your limits with track riding experience is getting over-confident and approaching real-world twisties more...

The actual cost of the bike is the least expensive component of ownership. Having sold a few bikes privately and was always amused at the nickel and dimeing on my asking price. Because the riding season is cut short by snow and ice, and because of insurance, bike ownership will always be too...

Daytona Motor Sport on Steeles (just west of 400) will beat any competitor price including Pete's and there is no shipping charge cause you pick it up. Closed for business in the winter from November to March.

They just killed the Hayabusa because it does not meet new Euro emission standards and sold all of 100 in the UK for 2018. Now Triumph continues with an insane 2.5l which is more than most small cars. Makes perfect sense to me, what marketing genius thought of this? But I'm still selling my...

You can say that again. I bought a "bargain" USB/cigarette outlet for my bike from Aliexpress, and should never have installed it. Right out of the package it stunk up the house with an overpowering old rubber smell. Even my fingers smelled of rubber after installing it (carcinogenic? - likely)...

Ya, works well and you can do that when you copy stuff and ignore copyrights. And we wonder why GM, Ford are having difficulty so need scapegoats like blaming the unions. I would boycott any vehicle made there like the Volvo and this bike. Trump was right, time to love your country and be a...

Differences are minor given that I have ridden both, and note that my 650 runs a little out of breath in rapid acceleration above 120 in 6th, but could likely be cured by downshifting to 5th. Anything that can do 0-100 in 4.25 seconds like the DL650 is fast enough for me thanks.

The problem is when simple logic bumps into tradition, as illustrated by this story..... A young boy asks his father "What is that strange head piece you are wearing?" The father said: "Why, my son, it is a 'chechia.' In the desert it protects our heads from the intense heat of the sun."...

Honda and Yamaha also have autonomous motorcycles. https://youtu.be/mWsBRgq7pk8

Although Christian, I believe in the freedom to worship whatever you want, even if you embrace the belief your distant ancestors crawled out from under a rock, and I also believe you have the right to take wreckless risks with your own life, but as long as it doesn't involve the innocent public...

Gaia is alive and well, as this wonderous planet maintains equilibrium. Last week Antarctica posted the coldest weather ever recorded on earth, -98C. This beat the old record set in 2013 when -95C was recorded. It ain't over...till it's over.

I knew someone in the 90s who carried a kids baseball bat about 18" long and holstered it under his seat. Anytime he got cut off or had a close call not of his own doing, he would whip out the bat ride along side the offending vehicle and knock the car's side mirror off. One time a guy almost...

Maybe it was just on the day I was there but I have heard others making the same comment, but on that day I also lucked-out as he was "full of beans" with a non-ending stream of loud farts that could have been better used to fill my tires. While I enjoyed such stuff in middle school, it's more...

'1.5 hours listening to him talk' is one thing. But listening to the sounds of unending tire leaks not coming from any of his tires, is the real test. Not sure if the saving is worth this subtle form of abuse.

Yes voluntary but I look at it this way. IBA and any such organization that suggests that it exists to promote individual dreams or challenges has a flawed framework. Once you use public roads for this test of individual mettle, you involve everybody else and put them at bodily risk. If you...

I would not call it "huge respect" for these racers, as all they did was take a huge risk with their lives or future mobility in cheating death. The stakes for this are just too high, and I think that is why they are considered insane, and which they truly are. The original TT was held over 100...

Any time I sold any of my bikes, I refused solo test rides since there are issues with insurance and unknown riding ability of the tester. So I always offered to ride them pillion. This was a great compromise as we could talk as I rode, they could feel the acceleration, the shifting or hear any...

Iron Butt to me is an organization while meaning to suggest adventure and challenge is basically a misguided organizatioin that escentially promotes riding huge distances on public roads, in an allotted time without killing yourself or others. I wonder if anyone has tried to shut them down?

Hotel accomodation is sparce as the various communities along the Keys are small due to there being virtually no land mass. Not sure of availability in August but a day in the Keys should be enough...shoot down to Key West, then come out again if you can't actually find accomodation. The...