As is often said: “Your ego is not your amigo!” Play Safe, Ride Safe!

Kevin, I liked the "nut between the handlebars and the seat" saying. I used to be a firearms instructor and we'd kid people having issues that the problem was the "nut on the grip".

Just took a training class last weekend Saturday and Sunday passed it with a gold star

That's actually a pretty accurate analogy. I am 36 years old, and a new rider on a cb500x with 700km ridden. On every rider i calculate 15 minutes of parking lot practice (u-turns, figure-8, emergency stops etc..)

Great analogy!! Thanks Kevin..... see you on the road

Thanks Kevin, stay safe and God bless.

Thanks Kevin. That was a very wonderful analogy.

Great analogy and good lesson Kevin.

Signed up for a returning rider course scheduled for May. Always good to update your skills and take a refresher.

Dude your AWESOME! I have spent every night of the last 2 years looking for safety tips and putting them into practice. Thank you so much for being here!

Love this & thank you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤜🏻 🤛🏻

Yeah, I definitely customized mine. I changed the front sprocket to add one more tooth to make the lower gears longer and it turned fourth gear into overdrive. I added rear rack from Japan and I ordered a 65 L box. That’s waterproof and locks I added a side kickstand, so I have a center stand in side stand. I did get a third mirror for it, but I didn’t put that on yet. But for now I think that’s it.

Great video, Kevin! You hit the nail on the head.

..... armpits dry while goin' down the road.... 🤣😂👍 Humour aside, wise words indeed Kevin.

Mathew 23:25 Thanks Kevin. Keeping my eyes pointed where and who I want to be. Not perfection, but direction. Thanks to you and Fast Eddie at motojitsu planning for this years course. Take care.

I agree with you whole heartly, and to speak more to that I watch your channel and Ride like a Pro channel where I have learned and then taken my lazy self to a parking lot and practiced the tips and lessons I've learn that week. Unfortunately because of weather here in the mountains of NC I've not able to practice as much as I would like to. Again thanks for your practical and common Sense lessons and tips on writing a motorcycle.

I happily joined the MC rider community after this video. Thanks for both lessons.😉❤

Good stuff. Words of wisdom for life not just bikes.

Hey Kevin. Not sure if you know but there are two bills in the Texas transportation committee to legalize lane splitting. HB 1270 and Senate bill 273.

Great Video Kevin! A few years ago when I learned to ride, my first bike was a 1990 Honda Hawk GT. Cosmetically, it was pretty abysmal but it was mechanically sound. I took the longest training course got my licence and then I had quite a few thousand miles of calm enjoyable riding until I sold the bike last year. Your absolutely correct; buy a used but mechanically good bike and take lots of training.

Thanks Kevin another helpful video training classes are few and far between where I live but I definitely got to get more practice time in. I spent most my budget on camping gear for the motorcycle and not enough om safety gear. But the only shiny things I want to buy for the outside of the Cup is practical shiny stuff tires crash bars. I never understand buying a brand new motorcycle and taking it home I then dropping a bunch of money into it at least rider for a year , I guess if it didn't fit it all.

Good stuff and great parallel. I will bring my own cup, lol.

Arm pits dry! LOL. I am so lucky to be in AZ now as every day is a joy for riding. I commute to and from work daily on the bike and then hunt for rides on the weekend. I am a native Texan and understand the stress you have been under for the past month or so. I have my 4th Goldwing, a '19 DTC Tour and tell myself every Friday that I need to bath it. But I end up checking the lights, tires, and practicing what you have been advertising on safety. Yep, I still need to bath the bike but... riding is good right now. Every bike I have bought, I have gone after market for safety items and comfort as I ride a lot. Extra lights, seat replaced, do my own routine maintenance..

Good advice Kevin. I have an new acronym for you" PEBSH - Problem Exists Between Seat and Handlbars. Keep the good stuff coming buddy.

That's great advice, i think i'm due for another course.

That's a pretty good analogy and one I see VERY often as a mechanic. I see lots of bikes with all the LED lights, new handlebars, aftermarket levers, and grips (usually cheep ones that feel like trash), and other "custom" stuff, but road rash all down one side of the bike, or watch them pull in/out of the driveway looking like a toddler riding a unicycle. Or my favorite is the chain or tires are just written off but they spend hundreds even thousands on custom bits that usually make the bike worse.

Training classes - invaluable.

I always do LED headlights, passing lights and also I like putting new rubber because most bikes for sale have been sitting for a long time.

Great video as always. Thank you for the verse from scripture. If you want to really drive the point home continue on to verse 27.

Interesting concept..

The outside of my bike is filthy sometimes, but the inside of the engine and components stay clean

Nice analogy there with the cups... Also liked the line.. The nut joining the handlebars to the seat 😄

Wow, when I get back from a ride, I pop open a beer.

Well said

Yep, I seriously need to practice my slow speed maneuvering and u-turns, trouble is all the parking lots are covered in salt and grit and gravel right now. Hell, its hard to find a parking lot any time of year where the surface isnt falling apart from all the winter freeze/thaw/rain here in Kansas City. Must be bliss to live in the sunny states and not worry about that.

z900rs cafe came with bars, paint, seat, and the stock exhaust is awesome, I did rad guard, tip over protect, grab rail, and booster plug I spent about 450$ total which is nothing when you consider what other people have into customization on a new bike, that wouldnt get you an air filter at the Harley dealer

At least the third guy who was turning left from International to Ridgewood from the non-turning lane held back for the newbie in the Yellow Rain gear on the Grom this morning. I think the leader was wearing a little stove pipe hat, some relation to a cup in there some place.

People can spend an awful lot on adding to their bike but one thing that apparently doesn't appear on anyone's list and is certainly the last item that people can think of that can help them to ride is their tyres. In the main they just end up as tyre kickers and if they resist the kick and don't bounce too much then they are ok. You like Hogs over their and they are heavy bikes and designed with riding in straight lines along long,very long highways and then when you have travelled thousands of straight miles you decide to go canyon chasing and that's where you part company with your bike. Its not just Hogs but any bike where with too much straight lining happens and then the tyres become very worn in the middle of the tread and not so on the outer sidewalls or and then, not knowingly, you end up with square tyres similar to a car. Try to take corners or bends at any speed and then you will know what its like to travel on the edge, of a tyre that now has edges on both sides to the tyre. So instead of a smooth transfer of traction all the way around the tyre you now have edges and that no good as that edge can affect the stability of the cornering ability of any bike. The Hog suffers most as like a scooter it cannot lean as much as street bikes or racing replicas or adventure bikes. but that doesn't matter if all that you do is riding in , mostly straight lines most of the time. With limited lean angle the tyres become more worn in the mid sections. It doesn't help if the tyres are under inflated or if one is heavy handed and accelerates fast off the mark or who believes in braking fast and hard at the last minute , seizing the front and or rear tyre, all these things square of the rubber on ones tyres. Also you also have a great ambient temperature range in such a large continent that you live in so there may be over 100 deg of change from one season or place to the next and that means that your tyre pressure changes also. For every 10 deg up of down in ambient temp. expect to see a change of 1 to 2 psi for every 10 deg of change so that can mean maybe losing or gaining 10 psi every year. That cant be good when you should be riding with a psi within a certain range. In the UK the ambient temp doesn't change that much but it still changes season to season. Its therefore important to know this as if you live in hot dry places with hot pavement then your tyre temp can change if you move towards and up into the rocky's and its cooler as your tyre temp. may lower and your psi. does also. This also can happen in reverse in that you are used to cool temps and then move to a warm place and your tyre pressure increases accordingly. So be aware that a change in tyre pressure can adversely alter the steering geometry and safety of any bike. Worth pointing out I think and maybe worth following up with more useful info on tyres.

I'm taking the ProRider course in Dallas next month! I am looking forward to it!

I bought a used cbr300r. And it’s pretty beat up. But all the money I have invested in it has been for things I need. I did the recall fix I’ve replaced both tires. I’ve installed a new ignition switch I even installed a gear indicator. I have yet to put on a slip on muffler or paint it or buy fancy lights for it.

Kevin is just a cool dude!

Has he ever explained what’s up with his eye? The different pupil sizes look kinda cool, wondering if anything had happened.

Is that a Fat Bob I saw at the beginning of this video? I have one and love it.

I always work with the mechanics first then do the rest but I have 1982 Honda night hawk 650 never added anything to it

Kevin, I like your video series and typically agree with MCrider. I need to say, however, that not every chopper rider is a low skill, untrained, self absorbed motorcyclist although we are often cast that way, as in your video. I have taken classes and at 67 years old participate in continuing skills development. I do this, however, on choppers that are by any measure, very extreme. You see, after 40 years I became bored with riding. I took to riding ergonomically challenging choppers to develop new skills and keep "fresh". Learning to safely pilot a thirty year old 10 foot bike gives me a sense of accomplishment. I've adapted what I learned in "regular" training to these machines to good effect. Keep up the good work!

Ego...most people's enemy

I wonder which cup Squids would have picked? Where is he?

haha good one

Hi keven

I have a question so On go the big handle bars, big front wheel, exotic shocks and you have an accident could the insurance co deny to pay since you modified your bike in some cases yourself and altered the engineered ergonomics? Thanks for keeping us thinking safety

I wouldn't take any of the cups I would ask if you had a clean cup please.

Hi kevin I was wondering would a dct motorcycle be a good motorcycle for beginners?

Just curious but have you ever taken Jerry's Ride Like A Pro class? Hes a retired motorcycle law enforcement officer located in Florida. His classes are extremely affordable in my opinion. However they're not beginner classes.

I'm a mechanic...my cup always looks like the one on the right lol

That's why best riders are born in the dirt ! Affordable and very down to earth literally when you hit that ground.. hehe

Watched this three times and still didnt get the cup thing. Why not clean them instead !?. 😊👍

I wouldlike to be cup dirty outside :D

Can anyone in the DFW area recommend a MSF school, preferably on the Fort Worth side?

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That could be a Sunday sermon!!

My practice parking lot is the visitor's lot at the school where I work. Gotta admit that I am embarrassed to do riding drills there ... Kevin nailed it with the pride comment!

At first glance I immediately picked the cup on the left. However, before he even started zooming in on them, my inner skeptic kicked in and I thought "It's a trick, that one is probably filthy on the inside!" Great video as always, thanks again for all your hard work Kevin.

The main thing is the training and safety gear, don't dress for the ride, dress for the slide, practice practice practice.

Let's see. this year's budget is new tyres and a replacing the clutch cable b/c of a weep. Those chrome bits are too bloody expensive. Ok

Neither. I'd ask for a clean cup in and out.

MC Rider! ... or anyone! Lookin for MCRider reflective stickers to put on the back of my helmet, can't find them in the store. I knew they were once sold before. Know where I can get my hands on one or two? Thank you! Love your videos :)

“You [spiritually] blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the plate [examine and change your inner self to conform to God’s precepts], so that the outside [your public life and deeds] may be clean also.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭23:26‬ ‭AMP‬‬ Good Stuff Kevin!!!

Bike better in good shape not the looks but perform, then practice. Looks always be in my bottom list or exceptional.

Hmmmm. That sounds like a sermon to me.

Or take your own cup with you.

"A typical budget for a rider looks something like this..." Me: Mhmm, mhmm, mhmm, totally. makes sense... >Slowly slides $20 tank protector and $15 ceramic spray coat out of sight

I would just clean the cup that I would use. Easy problem fixed. Next?

wife and were riding back from Vegas back home to yelm Washington. we stopped for the night in Burney Ca. we walked over to have dinner,had a big window of the parking lot. guy pulls up on his harley. must of been his new toy. all the people in the bar went out looking at his new scooter. he gets on a lady gets on, the whole bar patrons watching. he falls over.🤣😋🤯🤭🤡

Speaks blames when a rider handles their ride in a knowledgeable and considerate way! Note the rider, not the ride...

The channel's turned into philosophy 101 😯😜🤪😁

Still can't get past your cup analogy, you wouldn't be a good host if you were offering a cup of water after a day of riding, I'd much prefer a nice cool refreshing gatorade to rehydrate, replenish used electrolytes and the bottle is definitely clean on the inside

Would you really chose the cup that was clean inside, but filthy on the outside? I wouldn't trust my health to a dirty cup, inside or outside! I also would not buy a bike that was filthy on the outside. If it is clean, I would look closer. If it was dirty, that would be a dealbreaker for me. If one could not take the time to keep it cleaned, they most likely did no maintenance on the bike to keep it in good condition internally. I have always kept my bikes cleaned and polished. I also had a strict regimen of maintenance on the bikes. The cleaning and polishing l did weekly allowed me to get up close to see if any loose nuts, bolts, or any other issues exist that need maintenance. Many a time I found a small issue while cleaning that could have led to bad things happening later. You can't go wrong following the manufacturers recommended maintenance schedule.

Use a clean cup...nasty...

Hey guys I recently just got my first bike and I have a really big question to ask. When I park my bike and put a chain on it to deter theft. What do I do with my helmet ?? 🪖

1 girl, 2 cups...

Well Kevin, good advice on cup. So, may I ask you if you have a generator to power your all electric house next time you lose power? Or did you buy new cameras, bling in shop or another bike? If not, i don't expect another video on how cold it gets in winter, expecting sympathy.