Motorcycles Aren't Dead

Top 3 reasons you SHOULDN’T ride a motorcycle

Not everybody loves the incredible freedom of being able to ride a two wheeled fun machine and here’s some of the reasons why:

You’re Going to Want to Take the Long Way Home

If you’re on something as fun as a motorcycle, coming home to see your family will be the least of your problems. You’ll ride around 3 cities just to have 45 more minutes with your baby before you have to go home and see those pesky “people”. So, if you value time at home doing boring stuff, maybe don’t buy one

2. You might have too much fun

Some people might get angry that you’re having such a good time in such a mundane place as the street. Even supercar boys that are having fun too might get mad because you’re doing it so cheap. You can kiss those multiple hundreds of thousands of dollar setbacks goodbye. Even the higher end bikes are only around $30,000, and you can get an incredibly fast bike for less than $5,000 if you look.

3. You won’t ever want to do anything else

If you own a glorious two wheeled monster, you won’t ever want to do anything else. Especially on a nice day. Swimming, what’s that? Ohh, you mean leaning. Yeah that’s pretty fun. If you have other things you “want to do”, think about them before getting a bike, because you’ll never want to do them again.

First Riding Day of the Year Here In Cold NY

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In a strange turn of events, its has gotten warm in New York just a couple of days after February. It’s very strange, but no one let that day go to waste. I rode for around seven hours yesterday, with breaks obviously, and saw so many other people riding. I also went to somebody’s last second barbeque they were having, which was nice, except for that one really drunk guy.

The first nice day of the year is always a weird feeling, minimally getting air in your tires and new gas in your tank, you’re not used to riding anymore so you mess up a little sometimes. I even noob-stalled my bike that day. In the driveway of the cookout nonetheless.

Either way, I’m really excited to start the riding season again this year. And, besides, next year I might be down south. So, riding season would be EVERY SEASON BABYYYY.

Aftermarket Fairings: Good or Bad Sign?

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When buying a used bike, there are many things you need to look at to make sure the bike will perform properly. You should even look at cosmetic things to get a feel for how the bike was taken care of. One of those things is fairings.

While aftermarket vs. OEM parts have been a point of argument for car guys and bike guys alike, there are some aftermarket parts that are objectively worse. However, as long as you do your research, some aftermarket parts can be cheaper and better than OEM. If you are going to look at a bike, and you don’t know whether their aftermarket parts are quality or not.

A lot of the things that will give you information on whether they took care of their bike are in whether or not they have aftermarket fairings. If they do, spend a couple minutes doing some closer inspection. Are there dents in other parts? Scratches that look like they should continue on the fairings but abruptly stop when they start? Damaged foot pegs? Any of these things could mean the aftermarket fairings on to cover something up, and if the seller says he “never dropped it” after you see these things, don’t even think about buying it. He could be lying about other stuff too.

On the other hand, if the rest of the bike looks clean, and there are some decent looking aftermarket fairings on it, chances are they just loved the bike and liked the way the fairings looked. You should feel okay about buying the motorcycle, and in these situations, they often have the OEM fairings to go with it.

3 Reasons You Should Learn To Get It Up

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Im talking about wheelies of course, my children, nothing greater to please our lord and savior Rossi with than a quick dank nooner. Now here are three reason why you, being a bike and girl fanatic alike, should learn to get pop a few.

Girls don’t Like a man that can’t get it up

I know you, little squidlet, and what time isn’t spent swooning over that sick cruiser or sportbike, or looking longingly at the turbo ‘busa your uncle had when you were a child before he picked up a Harley, is spent browsing the dating apps of the world. If you learn to get it up, you might have a better chance. Not that girls care about your bike, none of them do, but girls hate it when you can’t get it up.

2. It looks cool

You’ll feel better better about yourself because you look so sick poppin that dank whoolie. The women will want you, the men will want to be you, the men… may also want you I don’t judge, it’s 2020. Either way you’ll be much more confident in a group if you know you’re not the only one with wheelie dysfunction syndrome.

3. It’s not *THAT* illegal

Hey, you can do it on some road nobody drives on, but some people aren’t even comfortable with that. If you’re a shy guy with a light front wheel, you can just pull in an abandoned parking lot, and feel cool while you’re there. Just don’t forget the camera, young squid, and point that tire high.

The Honda Grom and Why It’s Possibly The Best Thing Ever Made

“GET A GROM!” as youtuber Gromie Bear says all the time. He’s not wrong though, Honda’s 125cc machine is one of the most fun bikes to ride. Contrary to what seems like popular belief, this is not a kid’s bike. This is a dank nooner machine. Despite topping out at around 60mph, this 4 geared bike is an incredible commuter bike, getting over 100 miles per gallon. Plus, it’s not super loud, so none of the old people will call the cops on you for your loud exhaust when you head to work.

It’s also a very fun bike, even if you aren’t commuting. It’s very easily to learn wheelies on it (which is one of my weak points as a rider. It’s like the viagra to your wheelie dysfunction, you can learn on this and move up to bigger bikes. The best part is, there’s no way you’re accidentally doing a power wheelie on this, you’re actually yanking it up. Just keep it on the road (wink wink cough cough).

And hey, there’s tons of upgrades you can get to these if you fall in love with it (which you will). From upgraded exhausts to hand brakes for wheelies to custom wraps, you can customize yours however you want, and with such a low entry cost you won’t destroy your bank account either like our stretched swingarm Gixxer “friends”.

Insurance is Evil

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This isn’t really about bikes so much as cars since motorcycle insurance is really cheap, but you need insurance for both, so I’m gonna count it. Insurance, for me and other people of my age, is really expensive even if you are a safe driver.

Now, in America at least, burden of proof is placed on the accuser and everyone is guilty until proven innocent. For insurance companies, however, you need not be guilty but just be within certain groups to be charged an outrageous amount. If you’re under 25 for example, watch how expensive it will be to insure even the most rickety cars. For a merely 10 year old car, it could cost as much as $4,000 a year to insure it, which is what they want me to pay for a 2009 Impala even though I have a clean driving record. If you’re a guy, by the way, forget being able to feasibly afford insurance until you’re 25.

In conclusion, this may be a shorter post, but it’s important. People can’t survive if everything costs these outrageous amounts for young people, which have the least money to pay for it by the way. There are laws to stop discrimination in the workplace for old people, because they can learn to do things just like everyone else can. So, why aren’t there laws in place for young people that can drive safe just like the average person.

Bike Review: Honda CBR600RR

Honestly Spalding, I’m thinking about buying one, so here is a post to help me learn about it. First of all reliability: It’s a honda, it’s reliable. In all seriousness though, these engines can last a very long time is maintenance is kept up with. On top of that, not much reliability was sacrificed for performance. Plus they look great all white.

As a 599cc bike boasting about 120hp at the crank and 100whp, it’s perfect for track use as well. It might even be able to keep up with what have been the kings of racing in recent years, Yamaha.

It’s also really easy to find gear that matches them in stock, because they come in black, red, and white. Three very common colors for gear, unlike maroon or teal. But in the end, you need to love how the bike looks, or you won’t want to get it. With this, you won’t have any problems. The bike is almost as gorgeous as the wife you’re gonna start fighting with when you buy it without telling her, ya dumb, spontaneous guy, you.

Everyone Should Follow California in Lane Splitting Laws

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Lane splitting, or riding a motorcycle or bike between lanes in an attempt to speed up traffic and get to your destination quicker. The only place where it is legal is California, although Utah has introduced some lane filtering laws in may of 2019. It not only helps the bikers by reducing the chance of a rear end collision, but it also speeds up traffic for every driver on the road. People tend to have this mind set that motorcycles are skipping traffic, and they get mad about it and cause the only danger of lane splitting, the angry driver that hates the bike because he is stuck in traffic and wants to take his insecurities out on other people. This is not only legal, but normally practiced in many other parts of the world and I believe it should be legal in every state.

Not only does it reduce the chances of a rear end collision like I said before, the chances of injuries on almost every part of the body decreases when lane splitting safely, so at a reasonable speed. On top of that, it benefits other drivers by reducing wait time by not making other cars wait for them. In fact, a recent study shows that if 10% of people switched to lane splitting with a motorcycle, it would reduce commutes by 8 minutes on average.

But most importantly, weaving through traffic, and by extension lane splitting is really fun. Just like the autobahn, I think this needs to be more regular in America because our roads and traffic laws are far from modernized.

What if Lamborghini made a new motorcycle?

When it comes to luxury sport bikes all we really have are the highest end bikes from each brand and Ducati. But what if we had a Lambo bike? Let’s forget about that embarrassing one off they made and think about new motorcycles. I’m talking like out of this world going crazy put existing technology aside and make a really powerful sport bike.

Well first of all, lambo’s bike would have to have some way to make a compact v10 or v12 (this is the future here we probably have that). and it would have to keep the lambo looks, so the front end would have to resemble a small Huracan or Gallardo, with special attention paid to make sure they get the headlights right. (because if they messed up the headlights it would ruin the whole thing). Here’s a concept I found of what it could look like:

Of course this doesn’t have everything it needs, and is just a design, but if these bike companies stopped agreeing to “keep it under 300 km/h” we could definitely have the fastest bike in the world on out hands. However this would cost a lot of money. A v12 costs around $40,000 easily and if you add that to existing prices of luxury bikes, the cheapest it would cost would be atleast $500,000, which makes sense because it would put it around the price of the dodge tomahawk, a v10 motorcycle concept that could not be street legal, at $550,000.

Not that any normal people would be able to afford it, and at that point I’d probably rather have a normal lambo car, but it would still be pretty cool if the lambo bike just existed.

3 Reasons Why Looks Actually Do Matter

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Of course I’m talking about looks of motorcycles and accessories, because, well, this is a motorcycle blog and that’s all I can really talk about. However, I really do think looks are important to motorcycle riders and Here’s why:

3. Gear that looks better is probably safer

It is important to wear the right gear when riding a bike, because if you get into a motorcycle accident it is much more dangerous than a car, and even not wearing a jacket could give you severe road burn and leave your flesh exposed. Nicer quality helmets that have better safety features often cost more, so it leaves companies more room to make them look cleaner or put designs on the helmet to attract customers, another example of a better looking piece of gear being safer.

2. More good more better

If a motorcycle, specifically sportbikes, looks sleeker it’s probably a better performing motorcycle. As handling and speed have increased in the motorcycle world, so have appearance. So, just by association most people are going to like a better looking bike.

3. You gotta look good, you gotta have fun

As a wise man once said, you gotta look good to feel good, and you gotta feel good to have some fun. If you want to love riding, you’re going to have to love your gear and bike. People that buy a bike they don’t like just to have one aren’t going to have a good experience and might even quit riding. Plus, if you’re embarrassed of your gear or bike, you’re going to be discouraged riding. Half the fun of riding is interacting with people on the road that like your bike almost as much as you do, and sitting on a bike that not even you are in love with might take that away from you.