Motorcycle Crash San Diego
Motorcycle Crash San Diego Freeway
Seems like the news channel was trying to water down the severity of this incident. It’s really surprising that this motorcyclist survived without any serious injuries! I mean just imagine going 65 miles an hour or so and running into a tire coming right at you! Read more 
Motorcycle Pants vs Regular Jeans
Motorcycle Safety Test – Motorcycle Pants vs Regular Jeans
Motorcycle Riding Pants really do save your skin in a slide. I never used to wear protective motorcycle riding jeans. But, I guess when you get older you become a little more sensible and realize that just like wearing a seatbelt in a car, it’s kind of a pain but if you are in an accident, you would want to be without it.
Motorcycle Pants vs Regular Jeans. Who will prevail? Safety vs arguable style? Hint: Safety wins. Always. Read more
Motorcyclists’ hand signals
Motorcyclists’ hand signals explained
The many hand signals that motorcyclists use to stay safe on the road.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Motorcycling greetings can include several gestures made between motorcyclists on the road. Read more
Motorcycle Lane Splitting California
Motorcycle Lane Splitting California is legal!
Heading out of the bay .. I left at the wrong time…there were some breaks in traffic but not much..it started clearing up outside of Vacaville…. longest session yet!
Personally, and most probably because I’ve been riding motorcycles for over 40 years, I try to avoid lane splitting whenever possible. naturally here in Southern California, when you’re riding in the air-cooled bike sometimes lane splitting is unavoidable to prevent damage to your engine.
But, with that said, there’s been many times when I’ve been invited to ride from San Diego up to LA and have declined just for the fact that I knew it would entail lane splitting in super-heavy LA traffic. I’ve seen my share of distracted drivers here on the California roads, and really don’t want to increase my odds of injury by splitting lanes on the congested freeways.
Driving a car here in San Diego, on a number of occasions, I’ve been rear ended by an inattentive driver. Luckily, there were never any injuries and only some fender damage in each case. Now, keep in mind that if the same accidents occurred while I was on my motorcycle, the outcome would have been totally different. Read more
Counter-steering on a motorcycle
Counter-steering on a motorcycle
Consequences of not understanding Counter-steering on a motorcycle
In short, turn the handlebars left to go right, and turn the handlebars right to go left. This principle holds true at speeds from about 15 or 20 mph and higher, and is true of all motorcycles.
Don’t believe it? Watch the video. And then go out to a safe area with no traffic, and try it yourself.
Practicing counter-steering so that it becomes second nature can SAVE YOUR LIFE! Understand and practice it! Read more
Motorcyclist hits car driver
Motorcyclist hits car drive
How does the guy in the truck have any right to get mad at the motorcyclist, the truck driver was in the wrong . . . he crossed two parallel yellow lines — that’s illegal!
“I got kids in my mother fu##ing truck”. REALLY, and you didn’t think about your kids when you came into the motorcyclist lane almost hitting him and started cussing when you got out of your truck, for your kids to hear and see? God forbid your kids kept you as their parents. The motorcyclist should have followed the head butt with a kick to the nuts. Read more
San Diego Custom Motorcycles
San Diego Custom Motorcycles sets new record
For May 2015 this San Diego Custom Motorcycles blog set a new visitor record.
For May 2015 we had 22,085 unique visitors . . . a new website record! Read more
Car tries to take out bikers
Car tries to take out bikers
A group of bikes were riding in Omaha, NE this weekend when the driver of a car decided to try and drive them off the road. Read more
Motorcycle Accident Safety Video
Motorcycle Accident Safety Video
This is a dated motorcycle basic rider safety video. 1990s. While horribly flawed in some of its instructions (it advises to never use a motorcycle’s rear brake and to not do a full head-check, among other incorrect assertions), it still contains a modicum of good information. If you can get past the poor on-camera presence of some of the so-called “experts” and the sometimes questionable things filmed on the street in order to demonstrate what *not* to do, you’ll enjoy an hour of great classic motorcycles from a quarter-century ago.
For some of us a quick review of motorcycle safety instructions can be useful. In our age of cell phones and texting, motorcycle riding has become much more dangerous & requires motorcycle riders to be ever vigilant. Read more
Motorcycle Airbag
Motorcycle Airbag
Dainese was set to release its new air-bag-equipped suits in 2010 (I’m not sure if they did release them) – a full 10 years after development of the system began. Dainese’s D-Tec system is the first airbag from a major protective bike clothing manufacturer, although small companies have released jackets with cruder activation systems.
httpv://youtu.be/mo9Vlt5tGwY Read more
