We’re Moving!

We are happy to announce that we will be officially moving our blog. We are finally making the push to full-fledged self-hosted wordpress site, rather than hosting here at wordpress.com, as our web address will become:

RubberOnRoad.com

. Note that we’ve taken out the “the” and are now just Rubber on Road.

Don’t worry though, we’ll still be posting as much and as vigorously as ever! If you want to continue following us, head on over to Rubberonroad.com and sign up to follow along. If you follow us on facebook or twitter than nothing will change, so don’t worry about that.

Hope to see on the road! (and on the site!)

Easy Rider

Well, this video is actually terrifying. A couple motorcyclists are riding along a country road when they come across a pickup truck. Cue video:

Reminds me of that scene from Easy Rider:

Why we stay wide on the road

There is no shortage of video clips out there of bike accidents. Many can be attributed to idiot motorcyclists, many can be attributed to idiot car drivers. To me, the best thing to take away from watching such videos is an understanding of what went wrong, how it might have been prevented, and then consciously adopting that in to your riding habits.

I hate drivers who can’t keep their vehicles in a 10 foot wide lane. And this is a prime example why you leave yourself enough space while riding to respond to emergencies.