Track-proven skills translate into smart everyday riding
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Steadymate Travel Tips
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Q I am the owner of a 2003 Suzuki GSX-R1000. The "Smart Money" and "BB Gunn" stories in your December 2005 issue mentioned a fra
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Get prepared to go adventure touring!
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A few things to think about at your next track day
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Know when it's safe to pass and when it's not.
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Pro Riding Secrets from the Motorcyclist Staff
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30-plus KSSS-approved things to do at your next track day
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Tim Carrithers offers some helpful tips on smooth braking.
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Know thy enemy and you'll develop "wind guts"
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Editor Mitch Boehm describes his defensive-riding game, "Worst-Case Scenario".
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12 Simple but effective tweaks.....that'll improve your streetbike, right now
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When most riders go hunting for speed, they pore over catalogs of engine parts like acolytes searching for illumination. Cams and pistons and pipes, oh my! What they forget in their frenzied search for power is that if they can't slow down from the terminal ve
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Street motorcycles are not the most agile animals in the motoring forest. They're more nimble than our four-wheeled friends, for sure, but they're not nearly as maneuverable as, say, your '83 Honda CR480R or '70s-spec Schwinn Sting Ray.
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"Today's sportbikes offer ... suspension componentry that's better than what frontline Superbikes had less than a decade ago. The downside is that the myriad spring and damping adjustments can be confusing, and trying to figure out which adjuster affects what ca
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You've probably all been there at one time or another. You're riding along on a multilane surface street (two or three lanes moving in each direction), and because traffic is heavy you're nosing along in the far right lane, which is relatively uncongested beca
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Pity the motorcycling newcomer. On top of acquiring an acceptable machine, learning to ride it and dividing one's attention between actually operating the bike and keeping errant cars and trucks from dealing death blows out on the mean streets, newbies must al
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Yanking your shiny new streetbike up onto its sidestand with both wheels in the air might seem dangerous and highly squidly. But as an aid for spring-sag measurement (see page 91) or moving/rotating your bike in the tight confines of a crowded garage or parkin
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Competition-tire development has driven street-tire development almost since the first time two riders decided to race for pink slips. That's precisely why today's best street-legal supersport tires are the equal of the pure racing slicks that won Grand Prix w
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It's a painful rule of physics: Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Still, various bits and pieces of life's detritus have a habit of periodically materializing right where you're planning to be in the next few seconds. On the mean stree
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In situations where you're turning, braking and adding (or subtracting) throttle in quick succession or at the same time, such as riding in heavy traffic, riders often find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place--or between the brake lever and the h
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It's a query almost as old as the Bard himself: When it comes to lubricating your chain, what is the right stuff?
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Close your eyes and recall your last ride in heavy traffic.Imagine the vehicles surrounding you, crowding you, cutting you off. Imagine yourself monitoring closing speeds, reading street signs, noticing and anticipating traffic lights. Then imagine guessing
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...to Motorcyclist Garage, the place for all things hands-on, practical and useful for streetbike enthusiasts of all stripes. This month we focus on fitness and user-friendly ways to get yourself back into prime riding shape for the coming season. We know as w
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What goes up must come down, and that goes for roads and motorcycles, too. Lots of riders feel nervous or have trouble riding their machines downhill sections, even on the same kinds of road sections that give them no trouble at all when they are heading uphil
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