As we suit up for a ride, polish our helmets and refuel our tanks, there’s this one thing a rider usually forgets - protective eye gear. Much like we protect any other body part with proper riding equipment, we also need to take precautions to keep our eyes safe from harmful sunlight, dirt and projectiles on the road.  Since your eyes are one of the most delicate organs in the body, care needs to be taken accordingly to ensure nothing goes awfully wrong during a ride. Even a tiny speck of dust entering your eyes during a turn can result...

Top 5 Summer Riding Routes in India  It might be raining outside or the entire country could be burning up in the summer heat, nothing can stop a rider from venturing out of the city. Yearning to set off on a tour, covering distances significant enough to be memorable. Scheduling a riding tour typically depends on a rider’s preferred weather – some prefer to tour in the winters, while some prefer the summers and a few brave the monsoons.  All weather conditions have certain advantages and disadvantages. Rains are certainly the most risky as roads are wet and general visibility...

From keeping you cool in the summers to keeping you alive in a crash. Protective gear and body armour protects a rider from a lot during a ride. Armour protection is available separately so they can be added on to your riding gear, in case it doesn’t already come with armour protection or if you want to upgrade to better standards. One brand to look out for is Forcefield Body Armour that specializes in Impact Protection and High Performance Clothing Systems. Extremely light and flexible, the Forcefield armour range covers a variety of contact sports - from motorcycling to skiing...

The sweltering summer heat, an urgent need to travel for work, a call from your loved one living far or just the sudden urge the impulse to ride - any of the above reasons can result in a rider ending up on the road after dark.  Some riders avoid hitting the roads once it's dark outside and visibility in general is compromised, but for a few others riding is not about the time of the day or the external conditions but about the satisfaction of being on the road. Riding at night can be a lot of fun, with the...

To ride a motorcycle well one must truly understand it. And to achieve it’s optimum performance, one must tune and tweak to desire. While for some riders stock parts and performance is enough, some others like to kick it up a notch by installing aftermarket upgrades.  A motorcycle modification can be a cosmetic one or a performance one. A cosmetic modification changes the look of the motorcycle to an extent but does not make any functional difference in its performance. Performance modifications on the other hand are those made to parts that affect the way the motorcycle performs. Exhaust modifications...