There are many programs out there that promote safety on motorcycles and recently, a UK road safety organization won an international award for their work in this area. Safety is a major concern for these organizations, and wearing the proper gear when riding is one way to ensure riders are being as safe as they [...] Read more »

In July 2011, a retired police officer who had been driving drunk killed two motorcyclists and injured four others. He was sentenced in December for the crimes. The motorcyclists were members of the Last Chance Motorcycle Club. At the trial, their friends and family wore motorcycle vests with the club’s emblem to show support for [...] Read more »

At the annual Easyriders show held at the Sacramento Convention Center, vendors sold tons of new biker apparel and other biker accessories to the more than 15,000 people in attendance. The bike voted as the best will be featured in Easyriders magazine. Shows like this are a great opportunity for vendors to get new products [...] Read more »

Designers are showing their new looks in Paris this winter, and on top of the list are motorcycle jackets and weatherproof clothing. With climate patterns changing, clothes need to be made to fit the current weather, not just the current style. Designers everywhere have definitely been taking this into consideration. For some of the men’s [...] Read more »

For this cycle of LegendaryUSA we discussed everything from helmets to the biker lifestyle. Pull up your bike and join us. Do helmets save lives? That is the question up for debate. Should motorcycle helmets be mandatory? Tell us what you think. Playing it safe on a motorcycle and wearing the right biker apparel is [...] Read more »

Riding a motorcycle is one of the greatest joys you can have. Feeling the wind in your face, and hair if you don’t have a helmet on, is a feeling that you can’t describe to someone who doesn’t ride. However, putting on some biker lifestyle patches and a helmet does not mean you are living [...] Read more »

Wearing biker lifestyle patches and being in a bike club does not mean that you are living the biker lifestyle. To most of us, riding a motorcycle is a hobby, put behind our jobs, spouses, and kids. As much as we would like to give it all up and just ride the roads that’s not [...] Read more »

In Paris, a law was to have been passed for January 2013, requiring all motorcycle riders to wear a fluorescent armband on every biker jacket at all times. The law was rejected after a protest said if people can’t see a biker with a mandatory daytime headlight how are they going to see an armband. [...] Read more »

The River Falls public library seems to be a great place to go to see a motorcycle. Strange, huh? Evidently, not to some. People have been throwing on their biker clothes and heading down to the library to see these amazing bikes left and right. Meg Jones reports for the Journal Sentinel Online about this [...] Read more »

Motorcycles can be a lot of fun and in today’s economy they are also cheaper on gas. But with riding a motorcycle comes responsibility, too.  When motorcycles first became popular with the military there were 1500 deaths per year in the 50’s and 60’s. That is a number that has decreased, thank goodness, due to [...] Read more »