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If you ride off-road, getting to the good stuff usually means loading your bike onto a trailer and driving there. The best riding rarely happens at the end of a paved road, and that makes your tow vehicle just as important as the bike itself. Not every SUV with a hitch ball is actually up to the job.

Towing capacity is part of it, but it is not the whole story. Getting...

Late afternoon, two hours from home, the bike is strapped down and you’re finally moving. The ride was good, the kind of good where you don’t want to talk about it yet, just sit with it. You stop for gas, catch a glimpse of the truck’s interior through the window, and think yeah, I’ll deal with that later. Later becomes next weekend. Next weekend becomes next month. The truck...

For years I checked my tire pressure by pressing my thumb into the sidewall. Firm enough, good enough. It’s embarrassing to admit now, but I’d bet a lot of riders reading this have done the same thing, or still do.

The problem with that method isn’t just that it’s inaccurate. It’s that you can run dangerously low and the tire still feels firm to your thumb. You’re not ...

You’re on the highway, maybe twenty minutes from home, traffic moving fine, nothing unusual about the car that’s been sitting in front of you for the last few miles. Then it brakes hard for no reason you can see, and by the time you’ve stopped and your heart has caught up with what just happened, the other driver is already out of his car and looking angry. 

There...

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