How To Lubricate and Adjust Your Drive Chain
Posted by Team Motorcycle on Jul 19th 2016
When compared to larger vehicles like cars, motorcycles are considerably simpler machines. In trade they tend to require considerably more maintenance to keep operating optimally. While the concept of manually lubricating and adjusting a drive chain may seem alien to someone who's only driven four-wheeled vehicles their entire l
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More states end motorcycle-only checkpoints
Posted by Ben Baker on Jul 18th 2016
Biker-only checkpoints have drawn the ire of riders around the nation. When they started is hard to say exactly, but national attention started in New York in 2007. Georgia was next, with checkpoints only for bikers in 2011 as they rolled through the Peach State on the way to Bike Week in Daytona Beach, FL.
Motorcycle-only checkpoints have popped up around the nation. They u
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Class M license now required in Alabama
Posted by Ben Baker on Jul 16th 2016
The Cotton State was the only holdout of the 50 states to let motorcycle riders hit the road without a Class M endorsement, until the general assembly changed the law this year.
Under the previous law, riders could take, for free, the Class M test. Riders who got this Class M are grandfathered under the new law.
The new law allows two ways to get a Class M:
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Peach State governor gives riders a red light
Posted by Ben Baker on Jul 16th 2016
The Georgia General Assembly passed a red light bill after several years of lobbying effort by the Georgia ABATE group. It went through both houses and sat on Gov. Nathan Deal’s desk for a while.
He vetoed it.
“While I am sympathetic to the concerns and causes of motorcyclists and bicyclists, this legislation does not provide an adequate solution and presents a co
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