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1 month ago | 
us20.campaign-archive.com | Rob Brooks |Ted Edwards |Barb Nickless
Spotlight: 50 Years of CMABy Rob Brooks on Feb 27, 2025 03:40 pm My initial contact with CMA (Christian Motorcyclists Association) came in 1998, when I was invited by a friend to a local chapter meeting and dinner. The group convened monthly in a fire station cafeteria, and one of the first CMAers I met that night was a big bearded burly guy who approached me and introduced himself as “Rev”.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards
A sudden and unexpected end We test tires because you just never know.Bikes are different, riders are different, seasons are different and as we are finding out, tires are different.Much, much different.We test tires by attempting to control for everything- riding the same bikes, at the same time, with the same riders and same fuel loads following each other all season.We even order the same coffee, all in the name of accuracy.Sometimes the results are predictable and other times, as in...
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards
Reaching and celebrating a milestoneAs I looked on the left hand side of our website at the counter ticking off the many articles each of the Road Dirt Crew have authored, I was surprised to discover that this is number one hundred for me.My path here and to the century mark has been simultaneously strange and lucky.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards
Remembering the man who loved and inspired usHe cared about us, even though he never rode a motorcycle.He took us in, our ragged group of foul traveling misfits, and covered us with kindness, overflowing in sincerity, abounding in grace despite not understanding the machines we rode.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards |Christian Pierce |Darin Branton |Dean Phelps
Piling the miles on motorcycle sport touring tiresWhile all motorcycle tires are round and black, they are not the same.Even with technological advances one would think that modern sport touring tires are all very similar, but there are differences.A few years ago we here at Road Dirt Motorcycle Media started a quest to find those differences and pass that information on to you.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards |Christian Pierce |Darin Branton |Dean Phelps
Ancient guitars in a brick shop with leather furniture.My kind of candy store. So I stopped playing and hugged the guitar.I couldn’t help it.No one watching thought it was weird.They understood.I loved that ancient guitar.And it was loving me.Nothing new can compare to something that old. Which bikes of today will become classics fifty years from now?
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May 30, 2024 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards
A tire equally at home on the track and the streetIn fall of 2022, Dunlop introduced the Q5 and Q5S to replace the Q3+ and Q4 as their top tier trackway and fast street tires.Dunlop junkies rejoiced as the track focused Q5 and streetable Q5S provided race day levels of grip without the hassle of tire warmers.I took a set of Q5Ss to The Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton in spring of 2023, typical early summer stop of the MotoAmerica series.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards |Christian Pierce |Darin Branton |Dean Phelps
A Brief Intro: The Method To Our Tire Testing Madness Two years ago, a coffee fueled debate occurred between Dave “White Girl” Wensveen and I.My cousin/riding buddy/mileage muncher/fellow coffee addict and I argued endlessly over the best sport touring tires on the market comparing handling, mileage, rain performance and price.I suggested that unless you ride different tires on the same bike on the same roads at the same time you can’t really effectively compare traits.We went back and...
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards |Christian Pierce |Darin Branton |Dean Phelps
Dunlop Roadsmart IV vs. Shinko Verge 2XInitial Handling ImpressionsEven the journey of ten thousand miles must begin with the single turn of a wheel.This is how year 3 of Road Dirt’s Sport Touring Tire Shootout begins.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
roaddirt.tv | Ted Edwards
Total mileage, final reportWinter came like a light switch this year to the upper left of the country.My late October Sunday ride saw full sun, temperatures in the low 60’s and a Northwest fall in all its beautiful fury.If you were to script perfect riding weather, this was it. Monday came, and when it did, temperatures plummeted into the mid 20’s, snow fell in the mountains, and riding season came to an abrupt end.And as the riding season ended, so did our year long sport touring tire shootout.
