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Stayin’ Safe: Straighten Up and Ride Right

I don’t care for people who do a lot of posturing; but I do have admiration for riders with good posture. After all, riding...
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Stayin’ Safe: Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter

I know. You can’t help it. No matter how old you get, the moment your eyes spot an attractive, tight set of curves, your...
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Real World Schooling With Stayin’ Safe Training Tours

A large number of motorcycle riders I meet have little idea of how to manage the risks of riding. Sure, they can operate a...

Stayin’ Safe: Group Riding Tips

What defines a safe and enjoyable group ride? A tight grouping of bikes adhering to parade-like formation set by a leader? Or is it...
cornering on a motorcycle

Stayin’ Safe: Cornering

A Question of Commitment: The choice you make in a corner is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.   Are you in or are you out? Are you...
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Stayin’ Safe: Tracking Arrival of the Unexpected

Your clues about potential risks are in the mail. And the trash. Today, in the age of Amazon, we have an unprecedented ability to track...
The view of the road ahead looks wide open at first. But look again and notice the stretch of road that is hidden from sight.

Stayin’ Safe: Hidden Valley

Riding a stretch of rising and falling road is fun, but also presents a special kind of challenge for the back-road motorcyclist. While the...
In reality, the road veers left while the telephone lines shoot off on a different path.

Stayin’ Safe: The Danger of Using Telephone Poles to Predict Road Direction

Our brains interpret features above the road to help predict the path beyond our view of the pavement. Manmade and natural features such as...
This rider has left no room for escape, is in physical and mental neutral and is highly vulnerable to that distracted driver approaching from behind.

Stayin’ Safe: Idle Threat – The Danger From Behind

Back in the days of the legendary Hurt Report (1981), a.k.a. the Motorcycle Accident Cause Factors and Identification of Countermeasures technical report, the incidence...
Will the car pull out and try to pass the line of bikes? How far will the driver make it before the passing zone runs out? Which riders will he try to squeeze between when it does?

Stayin’ Safe: Ready or Not, Here I Come

It’s easy to become complacent when riding behind other riders. There doesn’t seem to be the same sense of urgency to actively scan the...

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