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This week on Moto Map Monday: Pennsylvania & New Jersey

“Where to ride?” is the question and “Moto-Maps^®” is the answer! Moto-Maps are travel size 3.5″ x 6″ laminated flip charts of scenic back-roads for motorcyclists. Each booklet includes six to seven maps with turn by turn directions for 6 or 7 loops. Each ride is a full day trip ranging from 3 to 8 hours to complete. The maps cost less than $10.00 a piece and are available at www.shop.roadcaptainusa.com

This week we are featuring the Eastern Pennsylvania & New Jersey edition of Moto-Maps Back-Road Touring Guides. This edition features seven scenic motorcycle rides that explore the back roads of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Start locations include Gettysburg, York, Reading, Atlantic City, Stockton, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport. If you are taking a motorcycle trip to Eastern Pensylvania or New Jersey you should make sure to get this back-road touring guide.

I have this one and have been on several of the rides featured in Pennsylvania and am currently using it to explore New Jersey. I recommend you buy it if you are planning a motorcycle trip to Eastern Pennsylvania or New Jersey.

Moto-Maps compact size make them a great stocking stuffer for the motorcyclist in your life. They are also a great tool for Road Captains.

Click here for more information on the Eastern Pennsylvania & New Jersey Moto-Map from www.Shop.RoadCaptainUSA.com

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Check out the October 2009 issue of East Coast Biker Online! Diana’s article is up front on page 6. Joker’s monthly New England Update is on page 72. My monthly Product Review is on page 67 and this is a review that I have not yet posted on RC USA.

This is the first issue I have seen that is easy on the eyes. Things are look’n up regarding the talent. Check out Scooter Trash on page 62 shot by Playboy photographer Jack Watson. Michele Smith will be contributing a monthly column starting with this issue. Now we’re talk’n! Click Here!

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This week on Tuesday’s Tip: “Watch those wheels!”

I believe that I read this tip either on Dave’s blog or in one of his comments. For those of you who don’t know Dave, he is the biker blogger at the Road Gritz Cafe in California. 

If you a see a car or truck on a side street or driveway that could potentially pull out in front of you, keep your eyes on the front wheels. If you see the front wheels start to roll then you know the car’s on the move and could potentially pull out in front of you.

I don’t understand why so many bikers who have had a car pull out in front of them claim to have made eye contact with the driver and are in shock that the driver pulled out. I hardly see the drivers face because I’m watching those wheels as if my life depends on it. Maybe once you make eye contact with the dreaded cager, he holds you in a trance as he trys to kill you… it’s that old vampire trick!

I call those cars poking their nose out in traffic “nosers”. Gotta watch the front wheels on those nasty nosers.

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This week on Moto Map Monday: Connecticut & Rhode Island

“Where to ride?” is the question and “Moto-Maps^®” is the answer! Moto-Maps are travel size 3.5″ x 6″ laminated flip charts of scenic back-roads for motorcyclists. Each booklet includes six to seven maps with turn by turn directions for 6 or 7 loops. Each ride is a full day trip ranging from 3 to 8 hours to complete. The maps cost less than $10.00 a piece and are available at www.shop.roadcaptainusa.com

This week we are featuring the Connecticut and Rhode Island edition of Moto-Maps Back-Road Touring Guides. This edition features seven scenic motorcycle rides that explore the back roads of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Start locations include Danbury, Bridgeport, Southbury,  Litchfield, Manchester, East Haddam Mystic and Newport. If you are taking a motorcycle trip to Connecticut or Rhode Island you should make sure to get this back-road touring guide.

I have this one and have been on several of the rides featured in this edition of Moto-Maps. I recommend you buy it if you are planning a motorcycle trip to Connecticut or Rhode Island like I have.

Moto-Maps compact size make them a great stocking stuffer for the motorcyclist in your life.

Click here for more information on the Connecticut and Rhode Island Moto-Map from www.Shop.RoadCaptainUSA.com

Click here to see all 25 Moto-Maps

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Unless you live under a rock you know S100 products are great for cleaning your motorcycle. I’m not a chome and spoke wheel guy, I’m more practical and go for the tubeless alloy wheels. Diana and I ride Dyna’s with almost the same wheels. Neither of us are big on cleaning our bikes but when we do we start with S100 products. Cleaning the brake dust and road grime off the wheels seems like a job in itself. That’s where S100 Wheel Cleaner comes in. It’s a high performance gel that you spray on, wait a little bit and then spray off with a water hose. I scrub the wheels with the scrubbing side of a dish washing sponge before the rinse and then again after the rinse and rinse again. I do this until I’m satisfied. S100 Products usually require extra rinsing off to make sure the washing agents have completely washed away along with the road grime.

I have practically ruined my wheels by not cleaning them enough. It seems like the road grime and brake dust are permanently attached to the exposed unpainted unpowder coated alloy of the wheel. I’m trying to take care of Diana’s wheels a little better; especially since her wheels are 100% exposed alloy. My Low Rider came with similar wheels but have a smooth finish and black powder coating on the mag spokes which makes cleaning a lot easier. Not only did the Super Glide come with no powder coating on the wheels, but Harley-Davidson gave it a textured finish which is much more difficult to clean. Another one of those jokes that H-D plays on us that I don’t get.

The S100 Wheel Cleaner is good stuff for alloy wheels.

Don’t forget to keep your suggestions coming. See previous post below.

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