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My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles, #1
Motorcycles are memorable. Some bring good memories, some not so good. This is #1 on My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles list. To see what I chose as #5, click here. For #4, click here. For #3, click here. For #2, click here. #1: 1996 Honda RS125. Surprisingly, my experience with the Suzuki GSX-R750 did ...
My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles, #2
Motorcycles are memorable. Some bring good memories, some not so good. This is #2 on My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles list. To see what I chose as #5, click here. For #4, click here. For #3, click here. #2: 1981 Suzuki RM125. I rode a lot of RMs in the ‘70s, mainly because the ...
My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles, #3
Motorcycles are memorable. Some bring good memories, some not so good. This is #3 on My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles list. To see what I chose as #5, click here. For #4, click here. #3: 1996 Suzuki GSX-R750. The Gixxer will go down in history as one of the most influential street motorcycles of ...
My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles, #4
Motorcycles are memorable. Some bring good memories, some not so good. This is #4 on My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles list. To see what I chose as #5, click here. #4: 1972 175 Yamaha CT2. This one could have easily ended up on the forgettable side of the margin. This street/dirt model didn’t handle ...
My Top 5 Most Memorable Motorcycles, #5
For better or for worse, motorcycles are memorable. For those of us who have been riding for awhile, those memories eventually start to sort themselves into lists. In one column are the motorcycles we’d rather forget. Whether it’s the mechanical traits, perhaps a bad experience on it, or just the circumstances of life while we ...
The World’s Toughest Sport
For the last few years I’ve had a license plate frame on the back of my car that reads: BICYCLE RACING, WORLD’S TOUGHEST SPORT. I’ll admit to being biased, but I’ve competed in a wide variety of sports — including soccer, cross country skiing, hockey, softball, baseball, tennis, basketball, running, wrestling, table tennis, golf and ...
7 Riding Partner Essentials
A great ride depends not so much on what you’re riding, where you’re riding or when you’re riding. In my experience, it depends mostly on who you are riding with. Your partner can make the difference between wishing the ride would never end and wishing you were at the dentist. I’ve found the following to ...
Me? A Celebrity?
So I’m flipping pages in the May 2011 issue of Dirt Bike Magazine, and my eyes stick to a photo at the top of page 60. It was in the middle of a retrospective piece on Honda’s CR250. I was drawn to the Honda RC250 in the foreground. This was one of the most exotic ...
Little Bikes, Big Giggles
It’s practically un-American to say this – especially when discussing motorcycles – but bigger is not always better. I submit to you the case of minicycle road racing. Huh? OK, so it’s hardly a mainstream sport. Literally small fish in an already small pond in the scope of the sporting world. But the truth is ...
Do ATVs Float?
I was a good buoy. A story I was involved with during my time as a staff editor at Dirt Wheels Magazine proved it. In the March 1985 issue we published an article titled, “Do They Really Float?” Having a position at an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) enthusiast publication led to many wild and wonderful experiences, ...
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