• 19
    Jan

    Are You Discouraged About Your Riding?

    Learning to ride a motorcycle at a high level of proficiency is challenging and so many of us struggle maintaining our motivation in the face of challenges.
  • ride your motorcycle based on speed and direction
    17
    Sep

    The Riding Technique Only Expert Riders Understand

    I can go through the exact same corner a thousand times, and it will be slightly different each and every time. Maybe the wind pushed me into it a little wider, a little faster. Maybe my tires are fresh and grippy or worn and tired. It’s hot, it’s cold, there’s a layer of debris from a recent rain shower. I ...
  • motorcycle riding a steep downhill corner
    12
    Aug

    How to Master Downhill Corners

    You might’ve seen a downhill corner and been filled with dread. That certainly was the case for me. But now, these are some of my favorite corners on the road. So, what is the trick to make a steep, nasty, downhill, blind, decreasing radius corner so much fun, instead of sucky? Why is an uphill corner such a gas while ...
  • motorcycle riding a corner at sunrise
    22
    Jul

    Be Afraid of This Motorcycle Technique

    One motorcycle riding technique that we need to be afraid of
  • Motorcycle on Chief Joseph Highway
    24
    Jun

    Three Steps to Defeat Riding Fear

    Fear is holding all of us back. Fear prevents us from becoming the riders we want to be. So what is fear exactly? Well, fear comes from our amygdala. Our lizard brain. You know, that little thing at the base of your skull that starts to tingle when you turn off all the lights in the basement. What’s really interesting ...
  • Motorcycle trail braking
    13
    May

    The Always, Onlys and Nevers of Motorcycling

    We hear it all the time in our sport. Always do this, never do that, the only way is this way. So I was having a conversation with my buddy Scott about this recently where we were asking each other, what are the always, onlys and nevers of riding. We each would try to come up with an absolute and ...
  • New Rider Not Covering the Brakes
    13
    Jan

    One Simple Habit To Reduce Reaction Times

    There’s two main things that are killing us as riders. The first is running wide in corners.  The second is intersections. One of the problems with a lot of basic rider programs is they don’t necessarily teach us how to become an experienced rider. The vast majority of beginner riding programs are teaching us how to be a beginner rider.  Now, ...
  • Motorcycle hitting a perfect apex
    5
    Dec

    Why Street Riders Need This Track School

    Street riders sometimes think that a track-based riding school wouldn’t be applicable to them, and in many cases, they are correct. But after taking the online Champ U online courses, I suspected that the Yamaha Champions Riding School might be different. So we made our way to Inde Motorsports Ranch to see for ourselves. In this video, I’ll discuss why ...
  • Mountain Biking on a Ridge
    3
    Nov

    One Exercise Changed Everything

    Over the years there have been three specific things that fundamentally improved my riding in a dramatic way.  The first was learning how far I needed to look down the road, what I needed to be looking at and looking for. Using vision as a way to slow down time, time that is used to make a plan for every ...
  • riding motorcycling during fall colors
    1
    Oct

    I Was Wrong

    What I learned from Champ U One of the frustrations with what I try to do is some people criticize or dismiss a life saving technique, saying it’s not applicable to them because it’s a “race track technique”  What if I told you, that by implementing some race-track techniques, you could keep riding the exact same speed you are riding ...