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From the Experts: 7 Tips Every Rider Should Know About Motorcycle Maintenance
The art of motorcycle maintenance isnโt about zen. Itโs about knowing your bike and your own limits.
Michael Frank has been an editor and freelancer since the age when print died and then didnโt and heโs danced between pixels and dead trees for outlets like Coolhunting, Forbes, Consumer Reports, Esquire, the Wall Street Journal, Outside, Adventure Journal and the almighty Gear Patrol. Heโs an occasional adjunct professor of journalism as well, at SUNY New Paltz in New Yorkโs Hudson Valley. He has a life, sort of, too, riding anything on two wheels, from mountain bikes to motorcycles and trades those for skis whenever the Gods grace this planet with snow.
The art of motorcycle maintenance isnโt about zen. Itโs about knowing your bike and your own limits.
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