Archive for January, 2008

Unplanned Swerving - Another Attack on a Rider

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I was riding home today, freeway is packed as usual, cautiously splitting lanes, don’t want to be too aggressive, I usually tend to learn my lessons fairly quickly. It seems to be a known fact to drivers that motorcycle riders “come out of nowhere” because they move faster than traffic. Well, tonight was not the […]

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As you already know I had purchased a new bike recently. It is a 2003 Ash Grey Aprilia Futura RST 1000 with the Taylormade Racing exhaust system. Even though it’s already been a couple of weeks that I proudly own it I haven’t had a good chance to ride it. Last night and today’s morning […]

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Morning Drop

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I’m one of people who are always paranoid about dropping the bike. Because of that I always pay extreme attention while riding and even moving the bike. I know how easy it is to loose your balance pulling it out of a garage or making a u-turn. I have crashed before but I never dropped […]

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Sickness That Has No Cure Part 3

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The title of this post can´t be called original. Sometime ago Motodisiac wrote the first one describing how he rode from Wisconsin. The bike he´d purchased then was 2003 Aprilia Futura RST 1000. The bike turned out to be great, he loved it and could not stop raving about how great the seat was, how […]

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Back in the Saddle

Friday, January 11th, 2008

It has been a while since either one of us has posted something. Various things are to blame - busy work schedule, some travel time and so on. Not only we did not write all that much we did not ride all that much either. I think it was only a couple of times that […]

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