Welcome to TOMM

UNLEARNING THE OLD

I was reading an article in an Italian newspaper that, in my experience, underlines and explains well the difficulties that

SENTIMENT MOVES the RIDE

I am riding a piece of road that I know quite well, actually exceptionally well, to the point of having,

SIMPLE and PURE RIDE

Considerations for Virtuous Rider “The principle of simplicity or parsimony—broadly, the idea that simpler explanations of observations should be preferred to more complex

COMPETENCE and CONFIDENCE

In complex and testing situations, we tend to follow the lead of a competent person (the one who knows what

THE PATIENT BIKER

Patience is a virtue rarely praised in these fast and selfish times: in family, in business, in friendship and in

Courageous bravery or Brave courage

Yet, people love and praise bravery! Maybe because they love sentimental things, maybe because we leave in the era of

Riding solo with open heart

I humbly join Ted in hoping that reading his blog and his last book “Boiling the Canary” will convince some

Taking Risk or just bravado?

If we want to be part of the glorious bunch of risk-takers, the ones always blustering improbable performances we must,

Isn't The Thief at all Guilty?

For Turkish version. Even if you were sure that the thief would be caught and punished, would you fall asleep

Hırsızın Hiç mi Suçu Yok?

For English version Hırsızın yakalanacağından ve hak ettiği cezayı alacağından emin olsanız bile, kapınızı kilitlemeden gönül rahatlığıyla uykuya dalar mıydınız?

Being Productive with the Flow and Riding a Motorcycle

I think the common and biggest problem of the people of our age, who strive to be productive, is lack

Akışta Üretken olmak ve Motosiklet Sürmek

For English Version Üretken olmaya gayret gösteren çağımız insanlarının sanırım ortak ve en büyük derdi vakitsizlik, zaman bulamamak. Kaçımız düşünmedik

FARKINDALIK KONSANTRASYON VE ODAK GETİRİR

For English version Konsantrasyon (dikkati ortak bir merkeze veya hedefe yönlendirmek veya getirmek) eldeki göreve odaklanma sürecidir. Neler yapabileceğimizin bilgisi

AWARENESS BRINGS CONCENTRATION & FOCUS

Concentration (to bring or direct toward a common centre or objective) is the process of focusing on the task at

The Search for Meaning

A maximum of choice and a minimum of meaning describe quite appropriately many of the situations we found ourselves involved

Reality always wins.

When it comes to my own cars and motorcycles, I do my best to consume and enjoy what I: A)

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

I'M ON A LONG AND NARROW ROAD

I think it would have been easier to write down the differences between Motorcycle Roadcraft and Sufistic knowledge rather than

Turning Points

Before we know it our ICE (internal combustion engine) motorcycles will be replaced by electrics. And not specifically because the

Try again

We can as well conduct a frugal life reducing consumption in controlling our sport and hobby. Refusing to buy new

I Forgot

Motorcycling is a human and a social good. It brings us closer to others. It gives us better awareness of

(RP) Teacher of discipline and a Master of humility

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece”

Conscious attention builds awareness (S.2)

Dulled attention, dulled conscious attention not only might not save the day on a ride but surely reduces the meaning

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

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

Hammer on the racetrack. Pace yourself on the street

by Nick Ienatsch © Sport Rider Magazine 1993 Racing involves speed, concentration and commitment; the results of a mistake are

(RP) A good biker is a mad biker.

Toward the end of the Summer, when the first cold and wet weather makes again its presence felt on the

Braking vs Speed - An Engineering Perspective

The shortest stopping distance of a vehicle is observed when crashed to a stationary object - only then you realize

UN to Provide Emergency Adjective Supplies to Moto-Journalist Community.

Disaster relief officials announced here Tuesday that United Nations aid workers would begin airlifting emergency supplies of adjectives, pronouns and

Top Ten Reasons Not to Ride to Work – Addressed

(RP) How to be safer and faster on country roads

A reprint from OMM Bulletin 2009. Interview with Jon Taylor

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

Missing Motorcycle Magazines

My sadness is not only for the decline of specialty magazines as viable businesses, including most of the popular motorcycle

The 4th Sense

Riders often mention the other senses. Apart from Taste. Now with my appreciation of Smell I would say that I

Who wants to be a Novice?

I tend to favour the novice rider and try to be one. Learning is fun when I embrace my mistakes

Danger on two wheels: push or twist

By nature one stationary thing can keep it’s balance only and only if it has at least three anchors. Like

Judicious Speed: safety, restraint and fast lane.

Power and Speed are among the main reasons why European riders buy sport bikes: declaration of top HP and Speed

Fatigue: it comes to all but in different ways.

The more practiced and proficient one becomes in a given task and the more complex the task, the greater is

Building a good story; the joy of risks gone.

I went to see the Rally Turkey 2020 part of the World Rally Championship and I really enjoyed two days

The Violence of Gravity

I had to stop: small stones and grit can transform a morning run into an anticipation of purgatory. Take off

Technology is the Mind Killer

by Andrew 'Wookie' Longshaw (Note from Paolo Volpara) Over the last few months we have been kindly accused of being

The left behind

Maybe, owning a bike Is source of joy and satisfaction. Not using the bike, because if you don’t ride your

How to Kick Start a Motorcycle

“This should give you five minutes – says the note- from the boredom of Covid confinement” And it persuaded me:

Speed: our guilty mistress

Speed is our guilty mistress; there is no reason for legitimate marriage because society has deemed her an unnecessary and

Multiple Bike Disorder

I do believe that each bike has a separate intangible value that increases my utility in different aspects, ways and

Death, companion on the road?

Experience, focused attention, longer vision, better planning and restraint may prevent mistakes and/or reduce the consequences but. .. it could,

Nothing is URGENT

We understood that nothing is urgent, not even work and business. Urgency is an infantile way to establish a relationship

I like TOMM for life

I love the concept of TOMM. It gives us ideas about life and how we can relate with motorcycle. A

Life is a game

With games we learn, in the first years of our life, the essentials and the way we play games fixes

The sting of the Vespa: scooter in the city...

The motorcycle market in the world is in recession not because "Corona virus" but mostly because the producers and marketers

Bikers, Agnostics and Flat Earthers.

So as a Biker who is an Agnostic Flat Earther there is one ultimate Denial that reduces all my learning

Your Own Ride

In the organizational meeting that established the BMW Bikers of Metropolitan Washington 29 years ago, one of the stated goals

“It depends…”

“It depends” is the answer, now, what’s the question? We were making the simple joke observing riders initiating the first

Balancing Act

BALANCE, (the ability to keep an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady) is

Ride to Work Day

"Kill a Biker, Go to Jail"

I was supporting Mr. Subjective’s (Andy Goldfine) point, saying that “If we want to promote an educated use of two

Crime and Punishment

When a motorcyclist is killed, the reaction of surviving motorcyclists is to form a lynch mob, go after the offending

Dressing Up

It seems normal nowadays to wear “technical gear” while riding a motorcycle or a scooter. This was not the case

From Society to Character to Riding Style

Riding around the word on a motorcycle is a never ending source of lessons and observations: a good way to

Position…position…position

The intensity of the ride keeps brain working fast and the real estate motto comes to life: in choosing a

How much do you weight? A conversation.

“Everyone says that Pan European is heavy bike and hard to ride and I always try to explain that weight

Great Bikes, great rides

"Some bikes are great to ride, and some are just great. These machines are both"... posted two weeks ago the

iHogs for everyone?

A recent fourteen minute YouTube video about “How Harley Davidson Killed Itself:” has, at this moment, over 1.62 million views.

Safer and faster on country roads

Getting your road position, speed and gear right, and trying to see things before they happen. It works for me

Ride with a reason: A.C.19 will not be the same.

Ready to take lessons, while contemplating the bike standing for many weeks immobile on center stand, I kept asking what

May: Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month

If the MIC and the AMA wanted to do something meaningful for increasing awareness of motorcycling and motorcyclists, instead of

Common mistakes in riding

I selected to republish without any modifications a 2009 article following the posting of “Be like a fish not like

Bert, the nodding donkey

I was attracted by the strange title of Simon Mattews piece : what a nodding donkey has to do with

Riding in Syntony, Synergy and Joy

Motorcycling has the advantage of bringing together people from different ages, places, cultures, occupations and interests: when you add the

Braking: the best tool in your bag.

In recent safety campaigns it has been shown that in an impact speed with a vehicle at 70kph the likelihood

Be like a Fish....not like an Ant

For many of us “Be like a fish ... not like an ant” has become since a regular mantra. It

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:

The teacher and the killer of joy

t some point, I let training replace riding and fun. The tool became the aim; having fun should have stayed

Reinventing the wheel or the discovery of hot water

By announcing the great find that “ Personal sovereignty is the essential key to understanding how to powerfully connect with

Relax and Dance: parallel ride

Parallel rides: lateral thinking comparing the way we ride a motorcycle with the way we conduct our life. In this

"This is it" moments

These are the moments, when the human mind, the most complicated thing in the known universe, is almost fully engaged

Too much information can harm the brain and body

With a developed animal brain we are now governing machine that can move us at inhumane speed toward what remains

When all else fails read the manual...

Finally thinking as always... By saying finally, I am not mentioning as a final step rather than that a final

Great machines you have just got to ride!

“Some bikes are great to ride, and some are just great. This is the definitive selection of machines that are

The mental side of motorcycling training

Brain application makes every activity more interesting, safer, and more entertaining: this I learned from Hans Heinz Dilthey and for

Don’t turn until you see the exit.

Corners. It's what bikes are all about. And along with braking, cornering is the skill that needs to be practised

A Prayer to Go Back or the nostalgia of normality

We want our life to go back, now, getting back to “normality”. It is understandable and compassionate BUT is IT

I don’t think I can go back...

Any attempt to “go-back-to-how-we-were-before” is an invitation to intellectual laziness, ethical indifference and practical nihilism. The desire to go back

Go Faster or Safer or Both

Separated From Hands

posted by Paolo Volpara Recently I was gracefully provided for a long weekend with a “top of the range-latest model”

What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence

Illusion of competence is an illuminating piecer for the correct acquisition of knowledge. Too often, while approaching what we call

A Riding Spa

If you have ever read the book "Motorcycle Roadcraft", the fourth chapter has a section about "Riding in Bad Weather".

What our words tell us or the "death of humility"

While biking and training for competent riding, we often talk of the need to cultivate humility together with a sincere

Speed and FUN

a little humor can lift our spirit in time where the bikes are on the central stand and the desire

Be responsible, be a good rider and a good human: now is the time.

This is NOT the time to be doing ... rides for fun. Many of us feel invincible, but things happen

Biking in the "time of corona"

In these challenging times we all rediscover solitude or at least a kind of personal segregation. The Corona virus brings

Riding itself is what is cool.

It all started with a post in Aerostch blog where Mr. Subjective was commenting on the reaction of some “experienced

Borders are the scar of history

Travelling is food for the soul and fun for the body: moving into new realities, new languages, new traditions, and

Answer Questions and Question Answers.

From Paolo Volpara Thinking One More Mile It is a strange situation: communication tools and opportunities grow exponentially and exponentially

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

If you know the Why, you can live any How.

From Aytek Sahin and Paolo Volpara Error is a good companion of motorcycling and a faithful partner in our life.

Who needs the RoboBike?

Nowadays the majority of the motorcycles are coming with electronic and mechanical riding aids. From ABS to Hill Holder Assist.

Dark side of motorcycling?

For old riders is a recurring experience. Friends, friends of friends, club members and roads companions die in senseless traffic

And "Now" for something completely different...

Posted by Paolo Volpara At www.brianharke.com you can read that "being present is one of the greatest skill sets you

The right to be rude.

In February 2017 Mrs. Rachel Caste wrote, for the New York Time, a clear and illuminating article titled “The Age

Thinking One More Mile

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