Often I would mentally note places to take shelter when storms threatened to interrupt my day’s ride. Eventually I learned to carry raingear simply because a rider can’t depend upon find an overpass when it’s needed. While most rainsuits function better than improvised garbage bags, some are better than others.
The N90 full-face helmet with the flip-up chin bar is newest model introduced by Nolan. I own the N101 and N102 models and was very interested in seeing what improvements had been made to this one.
“This is a book about animals that, like the Wicked Witch of the East in The Wizard of Oz, are not just merely dead but really most sincerely dead. These are animals in which even flies have lost interest.” So begins the introduction to one of the most unusual wildlife guides ever written.
Oil and bug-stained they no longer lie flat, but that’s okay because over the years they’ve become like a second skin. You might loan your jacket or give the shirt off your back, but your gloves are contoured to your hands alone. My cherished pair is nothing more than tough ranch gloves of elk hide …
I like to camp. However, I have a bad back and sleeping on the ground–even with a top-of-the-line foam pad–simply doesn’t enable me to wake up and feel like tackling a few hundred miles on the bike. The solution is the High Tech Cot offered by Riderwearhouse. There are many advantages to sleeping a …
The Charlevoix is not the only meteorite impact crater on our planet, but it is one of the few that is populated. Traveling from the village of Baie-Saint-Paul to that of La Malbaie I’ve crossed the widest portion and ridden past the central upheaval called Mont Éboulements. Half of the crater is missing, the result …
The Transit leather suit from Aerostich is something quite different. Imagine a leather jacket and pants that are perfectly waterproof, absolutely windproof, and keep you up to 30-degrees cooler than regular leathers when riding in the hot sun. Fitted with TF5 military-grade foam the Transit probably offers more impact protection than anything short of competitive …
It wasn’t just the illustration that caught my attention, it also was the date of the newspaper –1896. The front page of the December 12th issue of the Scientific American was devoted to two illustrations of a sophisticated two-wheel vehicle that were identified only as a “motor cycle using benzine.” My curiosity was piqued. Joel …
With the St. Lawrence River 1,000 feet below and Mount Èboulements rising behind me it stretches the imagination that this was ground zero of the cataclysmic meteorite impact that formed the vast crater of the Charlevoix. It seems both strange and understandable why this region wasn’t identified as being an impact crater until 1965. Toss …
Just a note to tell you all to watch out for some great articles and media from Hawghaven here in the United Kingdom. Along with my good friends from BikersWelcomeUSA we will be drip feeding news of our antics from over here beginning with an article and pics/vids of our recent outing to Amsterdam with …