Motorcycle safety, tips and tricks

I would like to welcome you to a new section on our web site that I hope you will find educational as well as enjoyable.  We have teamed up with an organization called the Master Strategy Group in an effort to help promote motorcycle safety as well as bring you tips and tricks on motorcycle maintainence.  These people are really sharp and have a lot of great information available to make riding a much safer and enjoyable experience.  We am proud to be associated with them, and hope each of you will find this section a great addition to our site.
   
As with any information given and or provided, Splittin' the Breeze, assumes no responsibility for the use of any information contained in the following articles.  It is being offered to you as practical road advice, based on the experience of other riders just like yourself with many many years of riding experiences.  With that being said, we hope that you will find these articles as educational and valuable as we have.  You may feel free to print these articles for your personal use, however, in my agreement with the Jim Davis, I have promised that we will not reproduce these articles or alter them from there copy righted format, and that should we choose to do so that I would contact them and get permission before doing so...... So I ask you to please be respectful of their copyright and my agreement with them. 

Thanks,  Billybob C.E.O., Splittin' the Breeze

• MSF Motorcycle Challenge
  .........Test your skills
• T-CLOCS
  Pre-Ride Check List
• Rider Perception Test
  Improve your skills
• The one thing you never want to do
  Don't ever hit the bike in front of you
• Learning to Ride
  squeezing both levers can get you out of trouble
• Newbies...Rider Training
  Preperation and other considerations
• Proper use of hand signals
  an excellent means of communicating with your fellow riders
• What they didn't teach you
  but things you need to know!
• Accident Management
  think ahead, be prepared
• After an Accident
  just because they can stand doesn't mean they're ok
• You only hit that car...
  if you don't quite stop in time
• Brakes
  almost everyone thinks of them wrong
• Integrated Braking Systems
  a marginal benefit that can save your life
• Braking Methods
  determined by speed
• Taper Braking
  why the 75 percent and 25 percent theory is incorrect
• Learning to Threshold Brake
  requires a lot of practice and care
• To Ride or Not To Ride
  it's confidence check time
• Fog and Rain
  Are you prepared
• Riding in Wet Weather
  Sooner or later it's gonna happen to you, Are you prepared?
• Hydroplaning Issues
  what to do about it
• One helpful hint
  on intersection saftey
• Be prepared, plan ahead
  do you know what to do
• Controlling your lane
  where you position yourself is important!
• Did you just pull in or
  where you thinking ahead
• Good leather may be expensive
  It's worth the price
• Peer pressure
  don't let them mess with your head
• Movin' on up
  Things little people should know about big bikes
• How to get over obsticals
  and survive the effort
• Pickin' up your bike
  it's about leverage... not brawn!
• Sometimes its just inevitable
  you can minimize the damage and injury
• Dumping a bike is no sin...
  Ending up under it is!
• Handling Curves
  the common sense approach
• Learning to lean
  it's easier than you think!
• Highside Dynamics
  How to keep out of trouble