How Far Does The Motorcycle Funerals Go?
Posted by Mike Werner on Jul 17th 2017
We’ve seen many companies over the last decade or so offer burial services to motorcycle riders that include a last ride in a motorcycle hearse. They take a motorcycle, and either place the coffin on a sidecar or drag a hearse behind it (like in the old Wild West days, a horse pulling a hearse). Now, one biker is going to go a step further. An 89-year-old Pennsylvania biker names Arthur Werne
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The evolution of the motorcycle helmet
Posted by Ben Baker on Jun 18th 2017
For about as long as brothers have been on two wheels, someone has been worried about their head. More specifically a way to protect the brain inside the skull.
The first was probably good enough to prevent a sunburn. Its ability to protect the head in the event of a crash, well, not so much. It could stop some cuts but would not do much to stop blunt force trauma like slamm
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Motorcycle firsts and the people who did them
Posted by Ben Baker on Jan 17th 2017
There can be only one, at least when it comes to pioneers. Everyone else follows. The motorcycle world has plenty of pioneers, people who were the first to do something on two wheels. Here is a look at some of them.
THE FIRST MOTORCYCLE
Who created the first motorcycle? That depends on whom you talk to. Two-wheeled moto
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How does riding affect you?
Posted by Ben Baker on Dec 31st 2016
Ask anyone who rides a bike why they ride and a top 10 answer is going to be “clears my mind.”
But does it really? How does riding a bike affect a person? Science does have some answers.
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON BIKES
A study in Japan looked at riding and brains. It was done by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima at the Laboratory of the Department of Functional Brain Ima
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