The past few days have been rough on riders of motorcycles in the greater Toronto area. It started in the wee hours of Saturday morning, with a shocking report about a rider who ran from police in Whitby. The rider wasn’t alone; there was a passenger on the back of the bike. When the rider […]
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Learning Curves – Review
July 31st, 2010 
admin Each Spring, more and more people take up motorcycling and they do so for a wide range of reasons. As such, motorcycle training schools across the country quickly fill up with students who are new to riding or those who are returning after taking many years off.
Whether you are new to riding or someone who is taking up riding again, the question that is often asked is “Why take a course? Isn’t it just like riding a bike?”
The short answer is no…it’s not.
Riding a motorcycle comes with risk, just like driving a car does. However, making a mistake on a motorbike can have far greater consequences. The point to taking a safety course is to mitigate and reduce those risks. Instructors start you with the basics of where the controls are and how to use them and rapidly move you up to required skills like emergency braking, obstacle avoidance and proper vision techniques.
Tags: Why Internet users should ride motorcycles
June 10th, 2010 Liz When an article in the June issue of Wired based on a book by Nicholas Carr first started me thinking about this topic, I intended to post my thoughts on my Media Gleaner blog. Adapted from Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, which was released this month, at first […]