Tips & Advice
The Ultimate Guide To Preparing For A Long-Distance Motorcycle Road Trip
If you don’t do cross-continental touring every summer as part of your owning a long-distance touring cruiser, you’ve come to the right place! This guide is meant to get you through the basic, and a couple of the advanced, things you need to do to prepare for a long distance motorcycle trip. The first thing …
Motorcyclist First Aid: What You Can Do To Help A Downed Rider
**This article was written in collaboration with Road Guardians, an organization dedicated to teaching motorcyclist first aid and accident scene management. While we consulted with experts, every situation is different. In the event of an injury, it is best to contact emergency services and follow their instructions. To be blunt right off the top, according …
Crashing Your Motorcycle: What Happens Next?
We’ve all had motorcycle veterans tell us “It’s not IF you crash, it’s WHEN” and truer words have never been spoken. Crashes come in many forms but since they’re inevitable, we hope they come in the form of a small spill in your driveway (or something very minor). A motorcycle mishap can happen anywhere from …
Why Today Should be the Day You Get a Dashcam
Many vehicles on the roads in 2021 are equipped with dashcams either from the factory or aftermarket. A dashcam is a camera that is mounted on a vehicle’s dashboard to capture video and audio of any event – big or small – on your travels. Should an accident occur, a dashcam can mean the difference …
3 Best Ways to Ship a Motorcycle
Shipping a Motorcycle Can be Done a Few Different Ways In most cases, I’d urge you to ride your motorcycle. I want to see you ride everywhere at any time of the year. However, even I can understand that sometimes you’ll need to ship your motorcycle to a specific location, whether that be a bike …
Are Owner Reviews on Motorcycle Gear a Reliable Source of Information for Shoppers?
An Important Factor in Your Buying Decision Motorcycle gear can be expensive. Because of this, you need to do your due diligence and do your research to be sure that the product you’re buying is exactly what you want, and that it will totally fulfill your needs as a rider. Where do you find this …
Fuel Additives Help Save Your Engine While Your Motorcycle Is in Storage
Don’t Just Park Your Bike Many motorcyclists can’t ride all year. This means riders need to put their bike away in storage for at least a few months. As much as you may want to keep riding, once the snow flies, you’d better get off of two wheels and start driving your car. You can’t …
How to Pick the Right Shipping Company for Your Motorcycle
Your Bike Deserves the Best We will always advocate for riding your bike to your destination, but every once in a while a situation will arise where you’ll need to actually ship your bike from one location to another. Sometimes a friend or fellow rider with a pickup truck or a trailer is all you’ll …
The Mental Health Benefits of Riding Motorcycles
It’s Real & Not Just An Excuse To Go For A Ride! Most of us have said at one time or another that we are taking a mental health day. What we really mean is that we have elected to take a day off from work to de-stress. It makes a lot of sense when …
Bikes Are No Longer Just for Dudes
The world of motorcycles is always growing and evolving to meet the needs and desires of consumers. But some of that growth might surprise a lot of riders. As a female rider, I honestly would not have estimated that nearly 20% of all bike owners in the United States are ladies. But that is exactly …
Benefits of Motorcycle Riding Later In Life
When you picture your golden years, you might never have imagined that some of your best days would be spent cruising around on a motorcycle, but that is exactly what more and more people are doing later in life. California Department of Motor Vehicles data shows that baby boomers make up 56 percent of the …
Motorcycle Maintenance Items for Fuel-Injected Bikes
Get your Hands Dirty Most everyone has one or two friends that are total gearheads. They can fix nearly anything and even better they can take something that runs well and make it run better for longer. I’ve always admired people with that skill set. My Grandfather was a multi-talented tradesman. A tinsmith, machinist and …
How-To: Brake Checks & Maintenance You Can Do At Home
I used to fear working on the brake systems of my vehicles because of how vital they are in avoiding becoming one with other cars on the road. If you don’t have knowledge on your side along with some mechanical aptitude and proper tooling, that fear is justified. It’s not hard to arm yourself with …
Triumph Thunderbird Sport Tuning Tips
Triumph Thunderbird Sport Tuning Tips Here are some Triumph Thunderbird Sport tuning tips from “J.B.”: I live in England and have a ’99 T’Bird Sport. Couple of hints for you, just reading the excellent article on valve clearance adjustment, which I had a go at myself not so long ago. Couple of things I found …
About Cary Martynuik
About Cary Martynuik Hello! My name is Cary Martynuik and I am a 28-year-old motorcycle junkie who has been riding for a total of about 6 years now. My first bike was a HONDA CBR 600F2, which I purchased from new. I enjoyed that bike so much that a few years later I bought the next-generation …
Leather With Lycra
wBW Special Report: Leather With Lycra Consider this — In the 130-odd years of motorcycling history, we’ve seen only three types of motorcycle clothing: natural fabrics (mostly cotton), leather and manufactured fabrics (nylon, acrylic, lastex, rayon, spandex, etc.). Cotton was found mostly in waxed waterproof variants, like the classic Barbour International and the equally famous Belstaff Trialmaster. Although this …
Motorcycle Tips
Motorcycle Tips From webBikeWorld Visitors webBikeWorld visitor “G.S.” wrote us with a great idea: how about a page (or more) devoted to inexpensive tips from readers? So here it is — send us your tips and tricks and we’ll post ’em here for all to enjoy! Suggestions include tips for safe riding, clothing, gear, cheap …
Motorcycle Clothing Size Charts
Motorcycle Clothing Sizes and Conversion Charts Can Help You Find The Right Size Helmet The information on this page can help you find the correct size for motorcycle clothing, but remember that manufacturers really don’t seem to have a good standard that is used for motorcycle clothing, so these charts should be used only as …
Motorcycle Training and Advanced Motorcycle Training
Motorcycle Training and Track Days Improve your skills and have loads o’ fun at one of the motorcycle riding schools below. Know of some motorcycle training we should add? Send it to: [email protected] Motorcycle Skills Training Reviews Motorcycle Skills Video Reviews BMW GS Off-Road Riding Skills A Twist of the Wrist II More Videos… MSF …
CE Certified vs. Approved
CE “Certified” vs. “Approved”? There Is a Difference. We Explain “Tested, Certified & Approved” And What It Means to You As A Rider. Motorcyclists of the world: you’ve been had. That means me too, and I don’t like it one bit. We strive to bring you precisely accurate information on webBikeWorld. That is information for intelligent people …
Sena SMH10B Firmware Update
Sena SMH10B Version 4.3 Firmware Update The music sharing ability found in the Cardo Scala Rider Q1 and Q3 intercoms cannot be ignored, but it has been overtaken, by the music sharing feature now implemented for the top of the line Sena SMH10B. Cardo threw down the gauntlet and Sena has responded by moving the yardstick forward significantly …
Home Made Bluetooth Adapter
Make Your Own Bluetooth Adapter! After thinking about it for the best part of two years, I finally purchased an Autocom Active plus intercom system. It worked brilliantly as promised — straight out of the box! Having bought the Autocom and laid it out (as suggested in the excellent article by Spyder), I was confronted with …
Motorcycle Clothing Safety Standards
Motorcycle Clothing Safety Standards Explained & Why They Matter Recently, a webBikeWorld visitor asked about motorcycle clothing and abrasion resistance. It’s a great question and we thought we should devote a page to the issue. It is very difficult to assess and compare the protective capabilities of motorcycle clothing, including jackets, pants, gloves, boots and even …
