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Camaraderie is one of the best things about motorcycling. We’ve all found ourselves travelling down the road and coming across a motorcyclist pulled over. We ask ourselves the same familiar questions: Should I pull over and check on this person? ...

This is an abridged version of a chapter in the book Life America and the Road by Jefe Smith. Excerpts and reviews of the book can be viewed at www.jefestours.com or on the Amazon Kindle Store. Get the best of ...

I’ll be the first to admit that riding a motorcycle while deliberately trying to avoid using the brakes sounds stupid. The claim that doing so can be make you a better rider sounds counter-intuitive, but allow me to explain. Brakes ...

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Hey everyone, great news! Motorcycle House has just given us a $50 gift card to give away to one lucky bikerMetric reader. F*** yeah! Motorcycle House (also on Google Plus) has been pretty generous lately. In addition to the gift card to ...

America imports 40% of its consumed oil. That’s $300 billion dollars leaving American families and businesses and going to the OPEC member nations of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. If this were ...

Etsy’s an online shopping site for do-it-yourself makers, crafts people, and other folk with cool stuff. There’s some junk on Etsy, but for the most part this isn’t your made-in-China fleabay junk, the things on Etsy are often backyard built, ...

I saw Yermo Lamers’ update on LinkedIn late last night. It was a blog post on Miles-by-Motorcycle titled “Corporate Bloggers and a Question of Integrity.” I’m a blogger who also happens to really like people giving him money, so the ...

It was the 1950s in California and America was blossoming. The cold damp and wet trenches were behind them. The sun was shining and the weather was fine. The kustom culture scene was firing up on all cylinders. It was ...

BikeEXIF tweeted a cool video yesterday morning. That’s a lie. They tweeted it months ago, and I thought I published this, but apparently I hit save as draft instead. ****. Anyway… At first glance I thought it was only about ...