This Buyers Guide: Heated Riding Apparel was originally published in the March 2012 issue of Rider magazine]
It was cold. Colder than a banker’s heart....
FITS LIKE A GLOVE. Custom-builder phenom Roland Sands has added an apparel line to his company’s custom parts and motorcycle offerings. The Roland Sands...
EXOSKELETON. The EXO-1100 is Scorpion’s new top-of-the-line helmet, featuring the exclusive TCT (Thermodynamical Composite Technology) shell construction process, said to enable the fiberglass/Kevlar/poly-resin shell...
Motorcycle boots come in a dizzying array of shapes, sizes and styles. There are state-of-the-art road racing boots, king-of-the-mountain motocross boots, pole-climbing engineer boots,...
Everyone has luggage, and most of us have motorcycle luggage—tankbags, tailbags, etc.—to carry essentials while on the road. Gear bags are designed to carry...
There's bound to be at least one good holiday-oriented story among 101 of Clement Salvadori's best Road Tales columns from Rider magazine. Rather than...
Santa's sleigh is powered by reindeers and magic, not internal combustion. But in the off-season, when he's ice racing or doing the occasional track...
Writing about riding isn’t easy. Choosing and stringing together words to describe the visceral experiences and deeply felt passions of motorcycling, not to mention...
Whenever I try “light” versions of products, such as light beer, lo-cal salad dressing and fat-free cookies, I usually find them tasteless and unsatisfying....
Motorcycle luggage has certainly evolved, especially in the direction of versatility. If you’re like me, you never seem to have enough packing space on...
RUBBER DUCKIES. Veterans of cold, slushy climates are all-too familiar with galoshes, rubber overshoes that keep shoes from getting muddy or wet. If you...
GET ‘ER CLEAN. DuPont designed The Grunge Brush to clean motorcycle chains and parts. It works faster, easier and more effectively than conventional alternatives,...
Setting a computer to crawl the web brings a wealth of interesting motorcycle industry tidbits each morning. Unfortunately, some are newspaper articles about motorcycle-auto...
