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There comes a time in life where you have to have those difficult conversations with your parents. In this case, my 87 year old Mother. Last Friday she rear ended/sideswiped a pick-up truck while driving her 10 yr full size Ford sedan. AFTER the accident, she discovered that her insurance had...

I know that many are going to be off to Hawthorne this weekend but for those that are not: I have a few friends that are meeting to ride on Saturday, September 17. We are meeting at the Chevron at the corner of G street and Yosemite, in Merced, at 8:30am, KSU 9am. Riding some backroads to...

I recently moved to Merced and we have a very nice place that is semi rural on the outskirts of town. Unfortunately, we cannot get the typical wired broadband Internet service. We are limited to: 1) Satellite that sux and has lots of time lag and bandwidth issues. or 2) Microwave We...

I have a flat track in my back yard and a couple of TTR125s... I am new to Merced and looking to make new moto friends!

ValleyMotorcyceTraining.com has asked me to begin teaching the Total Control Intermediate Riding Clinic (IRC) and Advanced Riding Clinic Level 1 (ARC L1) at their facility at Castle Airport, near Merced. We have openings in the September 18, October 15 and November 5 IRCs...

We've all been warned many times to stay out of drivers' blind spots. We teach this to new riders in the CMSP MTC and I remind the riders about blind spots in the IRC as well. As I was splitting lanes on my way home last night, in very slow moving traffic on 101 S. in Sant Clara, I noticed...

Father's Day is special to me for a lot of reasons. Mostly because of my Dad. I grew up working in the garage with my Dad or working in the print shop he ran. He taught me tons. The most important lesson he taught me was to spend time with your kids doing everything you can with them. I...

I am reducing my relationship with current firm (been with them 15 years) and starting up my own firm. There are lots of reasons I am moving on but mostly just because I want more control of my life. I have a few clients but I also have bandwidth to do more. As a brief overview: I have been...

My wife and I are moving to Merced. We close escrow on July 1 and we need a mover. Any BARF recommdations?

I am looking for a couple of these to use as playbikes in backyard flat track. Reasonable cost, reasonable condition. PM me if you have one.

I know there is a thread elsewhere about the refresher training coming up this weekend. They have released the lesson plan so I thought I would outline it to see if that generates more interest: 1) Throttle control 2) Quick stops 3) Riding vision 4) Low-speed turns 5) Road speed turns...

I will start this by saying I generally dislike GPS systems in cars and do not use one. Don't car a lot for cars in general anyway... HOWEVER, my wife LOVES using her GPS when it works properly. She has a 2015 Mazda 6 and the Tom-TOM GPS has gone nuts. It acts like it has lost one or more...

I am getting ready to go to the ARC instructor course this weekend and all of next week. Part of my homework is to video a student going through all the movements for setting up and riding through a corner in a non-riding setting. The way this works is one person on the bike, 4 people will...

Did that get your attention? I hope so. In a couple of weeks I am going to the Total Control Advanced Rider Clinic Instructors Course and I need to practice my classroom portions of the ARC. I thought I could offer those lessons for free. This will only be parts of the ARC classroom and NONE...

I am building up a 1997 250 ninja from parts and I need an aftermarket exhaust. Even just an aftermarket header will do. I don't want slip-ons, I am looking for a 2 into 1 exhaust. I will also need a rear shock that is better than the stocker so if anyone has a suggestion there, I would...

I teach motorcycle courses. We use stopwatches as part of the evaluations on the range. I can't find anything but crap in stores. The same cheapo stopwatch is $7 at Walmart and target, $15 at Big 5 and $20 at Sports Authority... Searching on Amazon has the same watch all over the price...

I am familiar with the Atwater go cart track and I have read reports of trackday events and even motard racing going on there. Who runs the events? Anyone that has been to one of the events what do you think of the track and the event? For those of you that have been to motard trackdays and...

Some years ago a friend of mine was moving and gave me a box of parts and tools left over from various of his motorcycle adventures. I have used or given away all of the parts but this one and I don't know what it is. IIRC he said it was a cover from an NSR400. IDK, can someone ID it? Better...

...some cager cuts you off? What is the first thing that comes to your mind when a cager turns left in front of you or merges into your "space" on the freeway? Do you think "OH $%*@"? or something else?

GONE ... GONE ... GONE ... GONE I have 4 HF133 (HiFlo brand) oil filters and a foam Uni airfilter for a GS500 that I have no need of. They are free for the asking.