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I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that getting a proper test ride on a brand-new motorcycle can be like trying to find a clean restroom at a music festival. For a lot of us, we end up buying bikes based on reviews on badass sites like RideApart, YouTube…

I've been tracking and writing about product safety recalls for several years, from my relatively safe and comfy perch in Chicago. To do this, I rely on recall notices posted by two federal agencies. Broadly speaking, the US National Traffic Highway Safety Administration governs on-road vehicles (mainly motorcycles and helmets,…

If you missed RideApart's recent teaser about what I'll be doing to raise funds for the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride (DGR), you should check it out and find out what the purpose of the DGR is. I was feeling pretty happy because that task I'll undertake isn't particularly easy but it…

It's not funny. It's not cute. Your story about some asinine thing that's completely made up is dumb. And you should feel bad about yourself for pushing it out into the ether. Yes, I get that we try to be a welcoming bunch here at RideApart, but this is my one…

Honestly, after the company was supposedly saved a few weeks ago, I thought the fallout of the KTM insolvency chaos would be over. Or, at the very least, be relegated to seemingly minor flare-ups of executives getting axed or a newswire hitting stating Hamilton actually is saving the MotoGP team.…

Over the years, I and other women riders who've written for RideApart have covered both other bikes made by the Russian firearms maker Kalashnikov, as well as the inexplicable urge some brands have to pink all the things when you want to sell to women. As a woman who rides,…

Dapper folks of the motorcycling world rejoice, because it's almost time for the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride (DGR). For those of you who don't know what the DGR is about, listen up. And for those who do, here's what to expect this year.

Hot off the heels of RideApart discovering Polaris' upcoming all-electric RZR UTV, we've got another electrifying—Dad Jokes, I've got them all!—patent discovery. This one, however, is all about that white powder. And no, we're not switching to EscobarApart. At least not yet. 

Motorcycles are joy; full stop. If you're reading RideApart, you probably already at least suspect this to be true. But beyond even that basic observation that we like to treat as fact, there's an extra-special, super-secret (or maybe not-so-secret) joy in the forbidden.