Go Faster or Safer or Both
Adapted from “Bike U.K” August 1997 and edited August 2025 “Speed”: It doesn’t matter what your responsible self says; speed is the essence of motorcycling. If you do not like…
Mastering The Pace: Safe Street Riding Techniques
by Nick Ienatsch © Sport Rider Magazine 1993 GOOGLE TRANSLATION to TURKISH after the TEXT in ENGLISH Racing involves speed, concentration and commitment; the results of a mistake are usually…
When INTEGRITY wins
A Rally Story: Transanatolia 2021 by Murat Korkmaz during Transanatolia 2021 It was the third day of the Transanatolia Rally. We were riding our motorcycles from Kayseri towards Sivas Yıldız…
THE PATIENT BIKER
by AYDIN Ural A second note from Aydin and a deep one; patience is a virtue rarely praised in these fast and selfish times: in family, in business, in friendship…
Courageous bravery or Brave courage
from Aydin Ural One of the latest entries into the thinkingomm made me think about bravery vs courage… again. I’m not a linguistic expert but there is a profound difference…
Reality always wins.
By Andy Goldfine Aerostich.com I sent the essay of Bruce Haedich to Andy Goldfine great thinker and creator of the Aerostich riding suit, classic and futuristic defence technology. With Andy…
Electrifying news for environmentally aware bikers.
In recent times it looks like most of the conversation between bikers end up with the crucial question “How many years left do we have to enjoy ICE (internal combustion…
I’M ON A LONG AND NARROW ROAD
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. By Ahmet Coşar PV note: I am often disturbed by the superficiality and vanity of conversation between bikers, then a…
Turning Points
from Mr Subjective, master of Aerostich conversations at https://www.aerostich.com/blog November 2021 Before we know it our ICE (internal combustion engine) motorcycles will be replaced by electrics. And not specifically because…
I Forgot
An essay by Mrs Subjective. (Note from the Editor) We talk often in this blog about self-awareness and the connection between the sport of motorcycling and the growth of awareness…
Improve Your Situational Awareness (S.1)
The difference between being a fast rider on the track and a safe one on the street. By Ken Condon February 17, 2016 You might get away with it enough…
The Bad Side of steering: correct the mistakes.
by Keith Code © Motorcycle Consumer News 1997 There are technical points concerning a rider’s fear of making either right or left-hand turns. Many riders have this fear and it’s…
Braking vs Speed – An Engineering Perspective
June 2021 by Aydin Ural “The shortest stopping distance of a vehicle is observed when crashed to a stationary object – only then you realize your speed was just too…
(RP) How to be safer and faster on country roads
By Rupert Paul – Riding Skills 11 June 2009 15:05 Jon Taylor has been a racer (he’s a former double Bemsee club champion), bike cop and long-time Nürburgring instructor. He’s…
Eco- Riding: opening the Pandora Box
“I will appreciate anyone who wants to contribute in the Eco Ride discussion” is the last phrase in the piece of Fatih Altunkaynak (riding around the world with wife Tugce…
Missing Motorcycle Magazines
A recent post from Mr Subjective at the AEROSTICH blog: you can visit and subscribe to the full collection of good articles here Here’s an excerpt from an emotional essay…
Who wants to be a Novice?
Posted by Hakan Erman It was one of those closed-circuit motorcycle training days and I was on duty. Attendees were riders from different ages who were willing to pay and…
Danger on two wheels: push or twist
By nature, one stationary thing can keep balance only if it has at least three anchors. Like a tripod. On two wheels, you need another complementary leg which can be…
The left behind
In the garage where I park my bike, there are approximately 40-50 motorbikes. I park among 13-15 of them lined side by side, on side-stands, along a wall positioned relatively…
How to Kick Start a Motorcycle
From a friend I received this extremely boring document on kickstarting… but the note accompanying it was too real to let pass the opportunity to share “This should give you…
Speed: our guilty mistress
by Ian Worral Ian Worrall has been my companion of many philosophical, artistic and historical conversations. For decades Ian has been my reference as a teacher in riding on/off-road and…
Multiple Bike Disorder
(PV note) Kazim Uzunoglu, long time partner in riding, motorcycle tour guide extraordinaire offers a rationale for the six bikes in his garage. Is “one bike for all” the right…
I like TOMM for life
The last portion of this blog name “Thinkingomm” stays for “One More Mile” as a commitment to push our process of thinking to touch the limits (sometime very near) of…
Life is a game
Biker Thinker: “A much used slogan for advertising of “symbol” goods, Life is a Game reveals a superficial approach to life but, more important, to game. With games we learn,…
Ride to Work Day
Annual celebration of motorcycles that are not only a part of daily commuting but also a lifestyle, a way of thinking. This year has been tough with this pandemic crisis…
Crime and Punishment
By Bob Higdon, Part 114 of “The View from the Bunker” : Bob Higdon is (in alphabetical order) a book author, competent rider, expert lawyer, life critic, long-distance rider, sincere…
From Society to Character to Riding Style
Riding around the world on a motorcycle is a never ending source of lessons and observations: a good way to compare the society in which we grow up with new…
Riding in Syntony, Synergy and Joy
Wife (Tugce) and I moved to Cracow a few months ago and biking, in this period, has been limited to test various second-hand motorcycles, to find the ideal one to…
Braking: the best tool in your bag.
by Jon Taylor (August 2002 – revised November 201 Of all the skills needed whilst riding a motorcycle, when all else fails and the unexpected happens, your ability to get…
Envy me and I will envy you…
Not often but it happens: crossing lanes with old friends, husband and wife, people not seen for too many years: a riding couple from the past. Motorcycle community is for…
Reinventing the wheel or the discovery of hot water
The rules of convivence imposed by governments to fight the pandemic COVID make a large part of the population discovering the limit of self-gratification and the joy of communal life.…
“This is it” moments
Posted by Hakan Erman Lately, I don’t resist to the temptation to watch the latest episodes of my favorite You Tubers, some of which are, of course, long distance motorcycle…
When all else fails read the manual…
It has been more than two months now, since the start of this state of staying home. We turned back to basics of life, like spending quality time with family…
Don’t turn until you see the exit.
Advice for cornering on a motorcycle from Bike Magazine UK and additional suggestion from Eddy Lambah-Stoate author of “My Little Green Book of Advanced Motorcycling” Corners. It’s what bikes are…
A Prayer to Go Back or the nostalgia of normality
We want our life to go back, now, getting back to “normality” Give back traffic to the cities Give back the profit to profiteers Give back wind-in-the hair to bikers…
A Riding Spa
If you have ever read the book “Motorcycle Roadcraft”, the fourth chapter has a section about “Riding in Bad Weather”. Rain is classified there as “bad weather” and a list…
Real Fun, Real Risk, Real Life
by Hakan Erman “I don’t want to talk about training, I do not want to know what to wear, I do not want to read manuals or to follow rules,…
Positioning – Practice Makes Perfect
Positioning your motorcycle on the road is something that needs expertise. It is the second step in IPSGA. It basically sets your margines for safety and lets you collect more…
Get Set for the Longest Ride
from Hakan Erman originally published in 2019 and re-edited in November 2023 for https://medium.com/@volpara/get-set-for-the-longest-ride-3b21ccaf1d42 Once upon a time, if you needed to get your bike washed in Istanbul, you had…
Biking in freedom… it is a matter of choices
Posted by Hakan Erman If “what’s the price of your bike?” and “how fast it goes?” are the most frequent (and banal) questions asked to bikers, “bikes give you freedom”…
Smoothness
As the precipitation of rain rushes from the mountain tops to the river basins, it experiences endless changes along the way. It changes earth by combative moves. This can well…
The magic number for excellence
posted by Aylin Ozturk We hear the word “expert” excessively these days; it seems that everyone’s an expert on something. In fact, that word became so banal that they even…