Road Captain USA

Fix My Hog DVD’s bring clear detailed straight forward instructions on basic Harley-Davidson maintenance right into your living room. Fix My Hog© Inc. was founded by Dennis Santopietro after he was frustrated with the high cost of motorcycle upkeep as well as the lack of how to video’s on the market. Dennis’s lifelong friend Bob LaRosa is a graduate of MMI, a professional motorcycle technician and owner of a motorcycle shop in Connecticut. Dennis contacted Bob and together they produced these award winning training DVD’s. The DVD’s show you in detail how to perform basic maintenance on your Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The DVD’s come in Sportster, Touring and Softail/Dyna editions. There are also Bolt On Performance edition DVD’s available for Touring and Softail/Dyna.  The DVD’s are professionally produced and easy to follow. Unlike books, these DVD’s let you watch as master mechanics show you step by step what to do. You can fast forward, rewind and watch again and again at your leisure. These DVD’s have given me the confidence to do my own maintenace this spring! I’m so impressed with these easy to follow DVD’s I contacted Dennis and worked it out so that I can offer them at my online store: www.Shop.RoadCaptainUSA.com

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Here is a great new blog by Kevin Moore. So far there are only two stories posted; but these two stories are brilliantly written. If you just read one of these it would be worth your time. Click here.

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Sorry to take so long to get around to writng another blog post but I am trying to keep on track with a theme here that follows my winter reading and it took me a while to finish this next book which I just finished last night. Like my previous book review this was again like bad medicine. Not so appetizing but if you want to get better you have to take the medicine. I want to get better at motorcycle maintenance so I read Mark Zimmerman’s book: The Essential Guide To Motorcycle Maintenance - Tips & Techniques To Keep Your Motorcycle In Top Condition. Click here for more info on the book. Mark does a great job of presenting a 250 page book that explains how a motorcycle works in addtion to the DIY sections that explain how to perform the maintenance. I feel like the DIY sections accounted for 1/3rd of the book tops.

There were pages and pages of the science behind the internal combustion engine and the theory of electricity and all kinds of stuff the author thought the newby mechanic should know in order to understand how to maintain and troubleshoot a motorcycle. The author does a great job of explaining all this however I feel mislead. I feel a little cheated! If I buy a book called Motorcycle Maintenance I want a book that is 100% about performing the maintenance, not 1/3rd! Honestly, I’m not even looking for a book on how to troubleshoot or repair a malfunctioning motorcycle. I’ll leave that to the professionals for now. I was just looking for the routine maintenance! I think this book needs a new title like: The Essential Guide To Understanding Motorcycles and Motorcycle Maintenance. Notice the “motorcycle maintenance” gets second billing. It’s a good book and I’m being harsh, but that is the impression left on me after my reading. For my money, I would like 167 more DIY pages please!

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February 2012 East Coast Biker Online is now available. Click here. Check out page 22 for Diana’s story The drop and page 38 for my review on Deep Creek Lake resort area.

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As mentioned in my previous post I must be a sick individual based on my obsessive and insatiable appetite for information, entertainment and anything related to motorcycles! At the time I was thinking these were adult neuroses. That is not the case. This sickness started when I was very young. It probably dates back to when I was two years old and my mother’s cousin sat me on his Harley-Davidson. That might be a little young to develop an obsession. More realisticly I would have been eleven or twelve years old when I attended junior high school in New Britain, Connecticut. That would have been when I met other boys who either owned dirtbikes and/or followed motorcross as their favorite sport. We read Motorcross Action and Dirtbike Magazine religously every month. We followed the careers of our heros like Bob Hannah as closely as kids these days follow the antics of John Cena of the WWE. Actually I have no idea what todays kids follow… I don’t have any. The point is my motorcycle infoholism began back in the 6th grade! I forgot it started way back then. My obsession currently has me reading Motorcycle Maintenance by Mark Zimmerman. In the book Mark Zimmerman spends an enormous amount of time explaining in detail how the motorcycle engine works, both two stroke and four stroke. It was the first time in my adult life to read this type of stuff, but not the first ever! The reading brought back memories of trips to the downtown library as a kid. I would go to the good old fashioned library and use the Dewey Decimal system to locate anything I could find on motorcycles and how they worked. This all played into the successful but diabolical plot to convince my parents to buy me a new Yamaha YZ 80 when I turned thirteen. So there you have it, I have been warped in this way since I was in the 6th grade and that is when I became a motorcycle obsessed infoholic!

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