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RIP David Barajas Hernandez http://www.mercedsunstar.com/article212106524.html

On Saturday May 12, I am teaching a Total Control Intermediate Riding clinic at Castle Airport in Atwater. IRC teaches you how to to have more fun, more cornering confidence, more ground clearance and more traction while riding your motorcycle! It is a fun, one day course. If you are...

Anyone with access to a 650 versys, a tape measure and a vernier caliper? Doing some research and can't find those dates points. Might be the same in the 650 Ninja so if you have those dimensions, please send those. Thanks!

Yesterday, as I filtered my way through stopped traffic to a traffic signal, I noticed had a very long shadow directly in front of me... To the drivers I was approaching, I was riding DIRECTLY OUT OF THE SUN! There is no f'ing way the drivers could see me, even if they tried! Be aware of...

I know this is a little bit outside the SF Bay area but there are many BARFers that are in the Central Valley as well so... I am teaching a couple of Intermediate Riding Clinics, in Atwater, at Castle airport, on September 30 and October 8. You can sign up at www.valleymotorcycletraining.com...

Several months ago, possibly as long ago as summer 2016, I saw a video of a motorcycle rider making a couple of mistakes riding. I thought I saw it posted on BARF but it might have been somewhere else. The video is from the rider's helmet cam. He is riding on a street with cars parked along...

I apologize for the long post/rant but I need to vent and I would like some perspective of other riders. I grew up in the mid west in the 70s and poker runs were a big thing to do on streetbikes. I did many of them. We would ride to a starting/registration point, get our first card, ride to...

Anyone interested in going for a ride this Saturday 8/12? I am thinking about riding hwy 4 over the top to the east, then 108 back to the west. Since i live in Merced, I will start here, ride some backroads up toward Sonora and Murphy's, then 4 over the top to 89-395 to 108 and back west to...

My son has some sort of bike problem and is stuck on the off ramp at 280 nb to page mill. Anyone in the area to help get him to Sunnyvale? Thanks George

I am teaching a few IRCs in the coming weeks at various sites. I teach because it is my passion to share my riding knowledge with other riders so that they can enjoy riding more! The IRC builds on the skills in the basic class (MTC). The IRC improves your cornering confidence, capabilities...

I have not looked at the KTM 390s closely but they seem to be awesome bikes. How closely are the engines in the 390s related to the KTM 350/450 family of dirtbikes? Are the engines similar at all? Just curious.

I need a EX500 or Ninja 500 engine. Any year will work. Anyone know any leads on one?

<Note to the mods: I posted this in "general" to try to get maximum exposure so I hope it can stay and not moved to "training"> Some of you may recall that on May 15, 2016 the California Motorcyclist Safety Program (CMSP) hosted a special, reduced cost refresher training course. We are hosting...

I bought my house in June. It has a whole house fan. I thought it was vented outside somehow. Today, I was in the attic for the first time and the whole house fan merely opens to the attic and is not directly vented to outside. The attic has several eyebrow type vents near the peak of the...

I am going to be driving back from Salt Lake City on Tuesday, passing through Reno, on my way back the SF Bay Area. My pick up bed will be empty coming back so if any one has anything they need hauled back, let me know. :)

The other evening my wife explained something that is a huge turn on to her: Naked man doing housework... It seems obvious now that she said it but it never occurred to me before...

In the mid 80s, Honda sold us the V4 VF750F Interceptor and the 700cc I-4 Nighthawk S. Most of the rest of the world also got the CBX750F that was made for about 10 years. Anyone have any experience with one? It has always been one of those bikes I was curious about and I am considering a...

Is there a way to access the transceiver of my and my wife's android cellphones so I can use my phone as a walkie talkie to talk to my wife's cellphone, no cellphone tower required?

I don't do black Friday shopping. It is one of those days, like Superbowl Sunday, that are IDEAL for riding because most people are NOT on the road. I am thinking about one of my favorite rides: Fuel up in Coalinga, then 198 west to Peachtree, south to Indian Valley and San Miguel Lunch and...

These are the two questions I get asked most often when I mention I teach more than the basic motorcycle classes or suggest that someone could benefit from more training. Why do you need more training? Because one can always be a better, safer, more controlled rider, if they have the skills to...