Well this seems to be about as much fun as watching paint dry!
But, bear with me! This is important. Road survival will never be as good as doin' a stand up wheelie, but stayin' alive is rather important because without it we wouldn't be here! Get ya motorbike gloves ready because...
You've just rolled out of bed twenty minutes late, swallowed a bowl full of marshmallow fruit loops, thrown down a long black thick enough to stick to the back wheel and pulled on your gloves as you hit the morning rush hour chaos. As the caffeine hits your fuzzy mind, you think..."right, watch out for school kids!" Frazzled parents with road rage are causing havoc. They look at you with jealous conceit and swear obscenities at you because you're on a bike and you don't do queues!
You've got experienced hands inside those motorcycle gloves, so now, it's time for some serious filtering. Now that your morning cup o' tar has hit ya, you're watching the traffic like a hawk because filtering can be dangerous when the car next to you moves only a couple of feet to have you off! Don't watch the car itself...watch the driver's head through his rear window...that'll move before the car does...and watch his front wheels too...because they'll move before anything else!
Guide your motorbike gloves around parked cars with drivers in them...Sure as eggs, they'll get out just as you pass, so, give them a door's width. Buses are classic for pulling out in front of you because they reckon they have to get the kids to school on time! And hang back a bit at gas stations and the 24 hour bar. Someone is sure to pull into or out of them without even looking at you.
And remember, keep your motorcycle gloved finger on the trigger of your front brake. It can save valuable seconds when you need to throw out the anchors! Enjoy yourself with leather on hand as everybody else around you gets frustrated!
Keep the action alive with:-
http://www.leatheronhand.com/motorcycle_gloves/
Showing posts with label leather motorbike gloves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leather motorbike gloves. Show all posts
Monday, 28 November 2011
Monday, 31 October 2011
How To Ride Fast On A Slow Bike
Believe it or not! By riding a smaller motorbike, you can actually become smoother, quicker and faster. If you want to learn how to ride a bike properly, after you strap on your leather motorcycle gloves, it's easier to ride a slower bike fast than to ride a fast bike slow! Besides, riding a slower bike makes you appreciate a big bike more.
Now, after you prepare yourself with all the protective gear from leathers to leather motorbike gloves, you can take a slower bike to the limit, and that is when you master the throttle control and feel the balance, with the back end sliding BUT with you still being in control. Twisting the throttle with motorcycle gloves in full control is a good feeling!
When your slower bike is on the limit you will value your corner speed, concentrate more on your line and less on braking, appreciate the smoothness because the small bikes are more nimble in the corners.
A 1000cc rider may even ask you if HE was SLOWING YOU DOWN in the corners! That's also good feeling!
Whilst you have this ultimate control in the corners you can look further ahead, because looking ahead is a sure sign that you know what's goin' on! Your motorcycle gloves are in charge! This will also teach you about momentum, because smaller bikes feel good in the upper range and it can take sooo long to get there if you lose that momentum on a slower bike. That way you can rely on the slower bike's torque (force or energy) to get up to speed.
So, the idea is not to spend a lot of time grabbin' too much throttle with your motorbike gloves. On a slower bike, if you do grab a fistful, there's less chance of you lifting the front wheel and ending up with your embarrassed backside on the asphalt and you scratching your helmet with your motorcycle gloves.
Besides, if you do drop it, it's less expensive than a big bike!
Have fun and view my gorgeous motorbike gloves at:-
http://www.leatheronhand.com/motorcycle_gloves/
Now, after you prepare yourself with all the protective gear from leathers to leather motorbike gloves, you can take a slower bike to the limit, and that is when you master the throttle control and feel the balance, with the back end sliding BUT with you still being in control. Twisting the throttle with motorcycle gloves in full control is a good feeling!
When your slower bike is on the limit you will value your corner speed, concentrate more on your line and less on braking, appreciate the smoothness because the small bikes are more nimble in the corners.
A 1000cc rider may even ask you if HE was SLOWING YOU DOWN in the corners! That's also good feeling!
Whilst you have this ultimate control in the corners you can look further ahead, because looking ahead is a sure sign that you know what's goin' on! Your motorcycle gloves are in charge! This will also teach you about momentum, because smaller bikes feel good in the upper range and it can take sooo long to get there if you lose that momentum on a slower bike. That way you can rely on the slower bike's torque (force or energy) to get up to speed.
So, the idea is not to spend a lot of time grabbin' too much throttle with your motorbike gloves. On a slower bike, if you do grab a fistful, there's less chance of you lifting the front wheel and ending up with your embarrassed backside on the asphalt and you scratching your helmet with your motorcycle gloves.
Besides, if you do drop it, it's less expensive than a big bike!
Have fun and view my gorgeous motorbike gloves at:-
http://www.leatheronhand.com/motorcycle_gloves/
Monday, 3 October 2011
When Motorcycle Gloves Get Wet & Cold
"How cold do you have to get before you fall off?"
The faster you ride, the colder you get!
At some stage of your bikeriding, you're going to get caught in a rainstorm.
Option 1:- Find a bar, take off your leather motorcycle gloves, sit under an umbrella and watch the rain fall!
Option 2:- Make a rainsuit out of plastic garbage bags. Punch arm and head holes in one, then leg holes in another and step into it. Then go back to the bar, find the kitchen and ask the cook for a pair of dishwashing gloves to wear as liners inside your leather motorbike gloves.
Plastic shopping bags inside your boots will keep your socks dry.
With Option 2, duct tape everything together, so all the plastic won't blow apart. You'll be dry for a while, maybe long enough to ride out the storm.
Aside from the emergency preparations above, you can prepare for riding in the rain. With motorcycle gloves, at some point, they eventually get wet, but the big gauntlet style full leather motorcycle gloves works best. Some riders like to wear the summer weight leather motorbike gloves. They get wet, but they dry out quickly. Besides, some riders like to "feel" the bars. If it's cold outside as well as wet, try a lightweight kind of thermal glove underneath your leather motorcycle gloves. Toasty and warm!
Talking about handlebars, I'm a great believer in heated grips. They keep the blood flowing in ya fingers and are great with the thinner variety of leather motorcycle gloves.
Now, we all know leather is neither warm nor waterproof, but many riders do go for the leather riding suits with their leather motorcycle gloves because they feel safer, and when you feel safe on a bike, then you don't mind arriving home wet!
Nothing is as cool as leather!
Look for cool leather motorcycle gloves at:-
http://www.leatheronhand.com/motorcycle_gloves/
The faster you ride, the colder you get!
At some stage of your bikeriding, you're going to get caught in a rainstorm.
Option 1:- Find a bar, take off your leather motorcycle gloves, sit under an umbrella and watch the rain fall!
Option 2:- Make a rainsuit out of plastic garbage bags. Punch arm and head holes in one, then leg holes in another and step into it. Then go back to the bar, find the kitchen and ask the cook for a pair of dishwashing gloves to wear as liners inside your leather motorbike gloves.
Plastic shopping bags inside your boots will keep your socks dry.
With Option 2, duct tape everything together, so all the plastic won't blow apart. You'll be dry for a while, maybe long enough to ride out the storm.
Aside from the emergency preparations above, you can prepare for riding in the rain. With motorcycle gloves, at some point, they eventually get wet, but the big gauntlet style full leather motorcycle gloves works best. Some riders like to wear the summer weight leather motorbike gloves. They get wet, but they dry out quickly. Besides, some riders like to "feel" the bars. If it's cold outside as well as wet, try a lightweight kind of thermal glove underneath your leather motorcycle gloves. Toasty and warm!
Talking about handlebars, I'm a great believer in heated grips. They keep the blood flowing in ya fingers and are great with the thinner variety of leather motorcycle gloves.
Now, we all know leather is neither warm nor waterproof, but many riders do go for the leather riding suits with their leather motorcycle gloves because they feel safer, and when you feel safe on a bike, then you don't mind arriving home wet!
Nothing is as cool as leather!
Look for cool leather motorcycle gloves at:-
http://www.leatheronhand.com/motorcycle_gloves/
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
How To Tackle That Corner: A Learning Curve with Motorcycle Gloves to Lead You
"Which way does it go?"
How many times have you asked yourself that question, as you screw your leather motorcycle gloves around and open up your brand new CBR1000RR, and you lose sight of the corner!
Your bike is handling to perfection, you've dressed appropriately; abrasion-resistant knee-pads on these leathers and durable leather motorcycle gloves! I once saw a guy cut the bottom out of two large empty plastic soda bottles for his hands, cut the neck out big enough to fit over the handlebars and kept his hands warm and dry from the rain. He was over the moon when his mom bought him his first pair of leather motorcycle gloves!
If it's not a corner that you're familiar with, then how do you know if it's constant, or has an increasing or decreasing radius?
How you come out depends on how you go in!
Your hands are sweating inside your motorbike gloves as you change down and adjust your speed in anticipation of the corner. Don't stare at your new motorcycle gloves. Look ahead! You are looking for the "vanishing point" - the point where the road disappears from view. When that happens try to follow the line of the road with your sight. It could be a line of trees or posts. Pay attention, not to your motorcycle gloves holding the grips, but to the speed limit signs just before the curve.
If the vanishing point remains pretty much the same throughout the curve, relative to the position of the bike, then you're in a constant radius corner.
If the vanishing point comes closer, the corner is tightening and this is a decreasing radius corner. These can be nasty! This is when you have to know your back brake because you're gonna run out of room, BUT, if you keep your throttle on at the same time, the bike will tighten its line and you'll make it out! The curve in your leather motorcycle gloves has never felt more useful!
Always expect the unexpected on blind curves. A road-killed deer can take up a full driving lane and the oncoming 18-wheeler can take up the other. There's not much room for your motorbike gloves to fit!
However, if the vanishing point of the corner gets further away and you have maximum view all the time, this is an increasing radius corner. These types of corners are what riding a bike is all about. You've throttled into the first stretch of the corner, motorcycle gloves ready to react, you can see that the road is open ahead, then you open 'er up as you exit, the bike wants to straighten immediately because of the centre of gravity and the geometry of spinning wheels and if your motorbike gloves are warm and your tires are the right pressure, you'll have a lot of fun discovering the next corner!
Discover leather motorcycle gloves and other varieties at:-
http://www.leatheronhand.com/motorcycle_gloves/
How many times have you asked yourself that question, as you screw your leather motorcycle gloves around and open up your brand new CBR1000RR, and you lose sight of the corner!
Your bike is handling to perfection, you've dressed appropriately; abrasion-resistant knee-pads on these leathers and durable leather motorcycle gloves! I once saw a guy cut the bottom out of two large empty plastic soda bottles for his hands, cut the neck out big enough to fit over the handlebars and kept his hands warm and dry from the rain. He was over the moon when his mom bought him his first pair of leather motorcycle gloves!
If it's not a corner that you're familiar with, then how do you know if it's constant, or has an increasing or decreasing radius?
How you come out depends on how you go in!
Your hands are sweating inside your motorbike gloves as you change down and adjust your speed in anticipation of the corner. Don't stare at your new motorcycle gloves. Look ahead! You are looking for the "vanishing point" - the point where the road disappears from view. When that happens try to follow the line of the road with your sight. It could be a line of trees or posts. Pay attention, not to your motorcycle gloves holding the grips, but to the speed limit signs just before the curve.
If the vanishing point remains pretty much the same throughout the curve, relative to the position of the bike, then you're in a constant radius corner.
If the vanishing point comes closer, the corner is tightening and this is a decreasing radius corner. These can be nasty! This is when you have to know your back brake because you're gonna run out of room, BUT, if you keep your throttle on at the same time, the bike will tighten its line and you'll make it out! The curve in your leather motorcycle gloves has never felt more useful!
Always expect the unexpected on blind curves. A road-killed deer can take up a full driving lane and the oncoming 18-wheeler can take up the other. There's not much room for your motorbike gloves to fit!
However, if the vanishing point of the corner gets further away and you have maximum view all the time, this is an increasing radius corner. These types of corners are what riding a bike is all about. You've throttled into the first stretch of the corner, motorcycle gloves ready to react, you can see that the road is open ahead, then you open 'er up as you exit, the bike wants to straighten immediately because of the centre of gravity and the geometry of spinning wheels and if your motorbike gloves are warm and your tires are the right pressure, you'll have a lot of fun discovering the next corner!
Discover leather motorcycle gloves and other varieties at:-
http://www.leatheronhand.com/motorcycle_gloves/
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