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I’ve got a huge thank you to publicly give to Raptor Titanium! Earlier this year, I lost my stepfather. He had been married to my mother since I was four years old, so I considered him my dad. He was a huge motocross fan who grew up in South Los Angeles and was part of the moto scene from pretty much the very beginning. He even owned Bay Area Cycle Centre, a KTM and Bultaco dealership, in the 1970s and ’80s. About 25 years ago, our neighbor started calling him PapaMoto — long before any grandkids arrived. The nickname stuck...

Would you use an online dirt bike logbook? Before I go to the effort of building a comprehensive maintenance/ride/parts/general bike logbook website, I was wondering if this is a tool that many of you would use. There’s a few apps and sites that attempt to do this, but none that I’ve found that do it really well or with all the features I have planned. I’d make it available for free for everyone. The website would allow you to: • Create multiple bike profiles • Log maintenance jobs done and upgrades/parts added • Log rides to record where, when, with...

Sunny and 50 in Indiana after a month of snow/rain/bitter cold. Took a short ride so the bike would stop giving me the evil eye every time I walked past it in the garage. Ground hard with a thin layer of very slick mud on top. I turn 67 in a few weeks so I kept it low key to keep off the ground and got in laps on our small track for about 30 minutes. Nice to feel the wheels rolling beneath me. Rode the Yamaha e-bikes with my wife later in the day. Lots of fun, but I...