Biker Friendly Establishments – Help us Make a List
(Editor’s Note: Due to all of the submissions we have received, we have created a new page on The Bikers’ Den blog dedicated to listing Biker Friendly Establishments.) It never fails – you get an idea for a great ride and you pick up the phone to call some riding…
What’s the Deal With Triumph?
Anybody who has been involved with riding for any length of time knows a little of the history of bikes in North America. Harley, Indian, the myriad of Japanese bikes starting in the 1970s, and then, assorted European and British bikes that appeared after World War 2. A few days…
Should I Tune Up My Motorcycle in the Winter?
One of the biggest challenges we all have when the snow starts to fly or the mercury drops is free time. We get on Google, we start thinking about projects we can do in the garage for the scoot and then, we start making assumptions about what we think we…
All I Want for Christmas
Every year, we get bombarded. Professional marketing firms are allowed to use all sorts of psychological data and research to figure out how to entice kids to beg their parents and grandparents for the latest “must have” gift that will likely be forgotten about (or broken) by the time we…
Are You Healthy Enough to Ride?
Over the last two weeks, two really great guys that I know that live thousands of miles apart have suffered catastrophic crashes on the back of their bikes. The reason isn’t weather, or distracted drivers, or even a random system failure. Nope. In fact, it is as far from those…
Air or Water Cooling – Which is Best?
Entire generations of riders have sworn by air-cooled engines and Harley took a whole ration of wrath when they decided to introduce liquid cooling into the Twin Cam 103 a few years ago. Mother Davidson was far from the first – in reality – they were one of the last…
Nobody Ever Wished They’d Spent More Time in the Office
I mentioned last month that I had the chance to cruise around the state of Wyoming a few days on an old, borrowed Gold Wing. The lists of towns and places isn’t important, although the effect they had on me was. More than once, I crossed the remnants of the…
Harley-Davidson Introduces the New Sport Glide
For a lot of the reasons we’ve talked about in these pages over the years, Harley has its challenges. An aging ridership, changing manufacturing, and a question of direction versus tradition. None of those answers are easy and the questions aren’t going away. Harley, though, has taken it all in…
Legendary USA Joins The Bikers’ Den Motorcycle Gear Lineup
About three of you will remember a few months ago when the neighbor ruined my riding jacket and the good news about The Bikers’ Den having just the new one I needed. Well, the neighbor’s wife isn’t trying to do my laundry, but now that the snow is blowing in…
Changing Your Views – On and Off Your Bike
“How can I be lost, When I’ve got nowhere to go?” – Metallica, Unforgiven III We all do this – get used to riding close to home, we get set in our ways, we take weekend trips to stuff we’ve already seen. Park in the same spot. Take the same…
How Much is Too Much?
The late, great comedian George Carlin had a rant in one of his shows years ago about “stuff” – you spent a lifetime accumulating it and then your kids spent years trying to get rid of it. He explained that you would go on vacation to “get away from it…
I’ll Bet You’ve Never Thought of This…
Eventually, you’ll try anything to clean your motorcycle parts with. It could be because you’re out of your favorite product and can’t get it locally that weekend, it could be that you’ve finally gotten tired of all the elbow grease needed to get some kinds of cleaners to actually polish…
