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Two-Up Motorcycle Beginner Tips—Getting Started

Two-Up Motorcycle Beginner Tips—Getting Started

How to Ride a Motorcycle With a Passenger Safely: 17 Tips from Steve and Rose How long have we been riding together? I’ve been riding long distance trips-tours with Rose for about 12 years, and here’s how we got started with a woman who had a fear of motorcycles at the time, and now we’ve covered thousands of miles together. Part two will cover what to do with the motorcycle, adjustments, weight shift, and loading tips. The first chapter describes…

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New Hot Cardo Packtalk Edge, best ever?

New Hot Cardo Packtalk Edge, best ever?

New Cardo Packtalk Edge now sits above the Packtalk Bold as brand’s new flagship helmet comms unit, boasting plenty of upgrades plus a slim new antenna-less design. Cardo Packtalk Edge unveiled as brand’s new flagship helmet comms offering.Features sleek new antenna-less design matched with new magnetic ‘air’ mount.Critical updates include USB-C fast charging and wireless firmware update abilities.Segment-leading natural voice activation, DMC connection, and JBL sound included.Online pre-orders now open ahead of April 2022 release, US$389.95 Motorcycle Bluetooth helmet comms…

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2022 Harley Davidson Pan America best upgrades

2022 Harley Davidson Pan America best upgrades

FEATURESADAPTIVE LIGHTINGADVANCED DAYMAKER ADAPTIVE HEADLAMP: Utilizing the ABS IMU to determine the lean angle of the motorcycle, this system automatically projects additional light into corners to illuminate areas of the road that may be unlit by an LED headlamp without this tech. Includes three LED elements per side, located just above the main Daymaker headlamp. The adaptive lamps illuminated in sequence based on motorcycle lean angle: at 8, 15, and 23 degrees. Rather than just switching on and off, the…

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Going up a Mountain Pass while fully loaded

Going up a Mountain Pass while fully loaded

How much gear do you bring, in pounds or kilograms? Going up a Mountain Pass while fully loaded. TGW is an abbreviation for Touring Gear Weight. How much gear do you bring, in pounds or kilograms? This is to make some people realize that going up a pass lightweight is very important, or to simply prepare for a very difficult ride like we did Here’s an example of my bike riding up the Stelvio pass on a clear day on…

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Motorcycle Tour from the Alps to the Amalfi Coast

Motorcycle Tour from the Alps to the Amalfi Coast

From Greece to Italy, Venice, Lake Garda, Strada della Forra – Tremosine, Passo Staulanza – Dolomites, Stelvio pass, Sella pass, Pordoi pass, Italian Riviera, Volterra Medieval Town, Pisa leaning tower, Amalfi coast, Pertosa-Auletta Grotte, by motorcycle A long-distance ride to motorcycling paradise from Greece to Italy., On this trip, we visited the following places: Peloponess, Venice, Dolomites, Italian Riviera, Tuscany, Amalfi coast, and more… Our first day in Italy was in Venice (yes with the motorcycle ). Our little epic…

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How To Repair A Tubeless Tire

How To Repair A Tubeless Tire

How to Repair a Motorcycle Tyre out on the Road with a Tire Plug Kit Tips & Warnings Remember, don’t get stuck somewhere without the proper tools. Regardless of your motorcycle experience level, flat tires suck.  The object usually stays in the hole, the only place from which the tire can lose air, so it deflates more slowly than a puncture in a tire with a tube on an unsealed spoked wheel (which can lose air through all of the…

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THE EASY RIDER TOUR – Greece and the Greek islands

THE EASY RIDER TOUR – Greece and the Greek islands

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST MOTORCYCLE TOURS My name is Laurie Schmidt and Curtis and Jarrett are my two sons. Sometime at the beginning of this year I told Curt and Jarrett that I wanted to take them on a vacation where we could ride together and just have a real good time. From that date forward I spent a lot of time on the internet looking for motorcycle tours throughout Europe. I started in Greece, jumped over to…

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