martes, 30 de abril de 2013

Welcome to RideApart


Know what’s awesome? Motorcycles. Know what’s not awesome? Trying to research or shop for one online. RideApart wants to fix that. We want to have a conversation about bikes with today’s consumer in the same way we talk about gadgets or clothes or cars. So here you go. Welcome to RideApart.


What’s all that mean? The ability to compare motorcycles side-by-side based on the specs that matter to you. Objective reviews that put you, the consumer, first. Real, substantial data and information that you can actually use to make legitimately smarter decisions. Content that doesn’t just speak to the inner circle, but involves, informs and entertains everyone else, too. Bikes will change your life for the better; RideApart tells that story.


This first iteration of our product brings the ability to research comprehensive data around new motorcycles, 2009 to present, organizing and prioritizing them by which sets of data are most important to you. You’ll find that functionality in our buyer’s guide, but we’ll also push it through most of our content.


That content is going to focus around informing you too. How do you keep your bike running? How do you fix it if it’s broken? Which new bikes do what they say they’re going to do, are best for getting around on and represent the best value? What riding gear will keep you safe, keep you dry and keep you looking good, at the right price?


A lot of you are going to be coming across from Hell For Leather too. That’s RideApart’s new lifestyle property, responsible for telling the story of what makes motorcycle awesome. Adventure, experience, risk taking. You’ll find that content on RideApart’s front page.


For the first time, we also want to involve the riding public in a conversation around cars. More than just the proverbial “cages,” the reality is we use them every day to haul our bikes, take us to the track, the dealer, the campsite or the trailhead. Which vehicles do that best? Which can get you there with the most gear, for the least cash? Which aren’t going to bore you to death in the process? DriveApart will answer those questions.


So who’s bringing you RideApart? We’ve assembled a ragtag team largely from outside the motorcycling mainstream. Jon Alain Guzik brings years of experience from consumer automotive and the world of Big Data and technology. You all know Wes, largely because he created Hell For Leather and writes about bikes for magazines like Playboy. Sean used to be a special needs teacher and now makes sure we don’t break ourselves doing dumb things. Tim spent years behind the curtains of the auto industry, harboring a secret desire to cruise off into the sunset on a Harley. You can read more about everyone on our About page; we’ve all been drawn together here by a shared desire to push motorcycles into the mainstream.


And, the best part? This is just the beginning. More functionality, more products, the next season of the show and much more are all in the pipeline, you’ll be seeing them roll out over the next weeks and months. Welcome to RideApart, let’s ride.


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DriveApart Review: 2013 Toyota 4Runner

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 Does anyone remember the first generation Toyota 4Runner? No, not the one with four doors but rather the one that invented the SUV genre in a rather crude manner by merely adding a top to the rear of a Toyota Pickup so that a bench seat and seat belts could be crammed back [...]


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Ten Important Common Questions about Towing and Hauling

By James Hamel Many people think that as long as you just attach a tow ball hitch to any vehicle that you are all set and ready to haul anything and everything. Add in an assumption that driving with a trailer behind you is in any way easy and you have the recipe for disaster. [...]


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Airstream Land Yacht

Airstream Land Yacht For 82 years, Airstream has been creating the world’s most famous trailers due their iconic looks and savvy design. They are now building a new top of the line trailer, the Land Yacht. It was first introduced as a concept design in November of 2012, the Land Yacht is joint operation between [...]


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RideApart: Ford F-150 Eco Boost

By James Hamel Ride Apart Overview Sure, it would be nice to have the budget in your bank account as well as the personal need for the outrageously powerful Ford F-150 Raptor but for most folks that level of performance might seem a bit much for trips down to the local Home Depot. Not that [...]


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DriveApart Review: 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander

RideApart Overview For 2014, Mitsubishi introduces the third generation Outlander to its lineup. With a brand new design, engineering and features — including an all new lightweight frame and aerodynamic body — this Outlander is the best one yet. What We Like The Outlander has an entire new design for 2013, the lightweight frame was [...]


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lunes, 29 de abril de 2013

A Sparrow and a Bare Branch

“I swear I’ve never tried hard to make it look like art,” claims custom bike builder Shinya Kimura. Yet, that’s exactly what he ends up producing. I would make the case that his bikes are metaphysical statements about the relationship of man, nature, work, materials, and speed. I recently asked him several questions about his [...]


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viernes, 26 de abril de 2013

On Marquez’s elbow

At the press conference following his second-ever MotoGP race, Marc Marquez was asked about his distinct, elbow-down riding style. This was his reply.


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RideApart Review: 2013 BMW F800GT

When BMW introduced its midsize sports tourer the F800ST in 2006 it immediately sparked a debate amongst owners and aficionados as to what exactly it was. Some felt there was too much emphasis on sport and too little on its tourer abilities. Nobody, it seems, could really agree on the what it was, including BMW. [...]


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jueves, 25 de abril de 2013

MotoGP comes to Austin

Normally I write about electric motorcycle racing over at gas2. But I decided to celebrate Earth Day this year by flying to Austin and covering MotoGP for Wes. After all, racing is all that really matters in this world. When I told an editor seated near me about my awesome new electric bike (Zero FX [...]


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miércoles, 24 de abril de 2013

Watch a KTM fall through thin ice

“Out for a ride on Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago following some snowmobile tracks and came up to a thin spot in the ice,” describes Alex Ramsey. “Going too slow and not knowing that the ice was thin or non-existent, I broke through. Thanks to two good Samaritans, I still have it and its running as good [...]


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martes, 23 de abril de 2013

Spy Photos: KTM 1290 SuperDuke R

German magazine Motorrad has captured photos of a prototype KTM 1290 SuperDuke R undergoing validation testing in the Canary Islands. While the bike you see here remains a rough development mule, it does highlight the changes that need to be made to translate an over-the-top concept to an affordable product. The concept model was equipped [...]


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Sean’s Westcoast Roadtrip: The Gear

10 days. 2,952 miles. 3 states. Countless climates and geographic regions. 1 motorcycle. With such a limited amount of space, packing for a trip like this can be quite difficult, especially if you plan to camp along the way. Add in the fact that I’ve never been described with words like “tough,” “outdoorsy,” or “not [...]


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