Pillioness.com Website of the Month Jan.’16

Pillioness.com Website of the Month for January

I told you I was bringing back the website of the month feature, & here is a great one that is oriented toward motorcycle passengers. Let face it as fuzzy faced, hairy chested biker men we are usually talking about women. Now we all love tough strong independent women who ride their own motorcycles but there is truly a special togetherness in having your significant other sitting behind you as the miles fly by. And for those ladies who prefer to ride with us Dr. Liz Hardy has created a unique website just for them called Pillioness.com.

Among the truly great things Dr. Hardy does is to talk about the comfort aspect of riding pillion, the passenger accommodations on many motorcycles can be less than accommodating. If you’re trying to get your better half into riding with you it is definitely something that needs to be taken into consideration. For more information you should check out this post entitled, ” A Pillion Seat Fit for a Princess”

Another good thing for you to keep in mind is how you behave. Whether breaking in a new passenger, or trying to convince your life long love to try it for the first time, leave your machismo at home, keep both wheels on the ground, speeds reasonable, and control inputs smooth until they feel comfortable with stepping up the pace. If you scare the living shit out of her or make her miserable with an uncomfortable seat, I won’t blame her for not riding with you. In other words just don’t be an asshole.

That’s Pillioness.com Website of the Month for January 2016. Don’t forget to share this with that special someone in your life, Especially if you are still trying to convince her to join you on a motorcycle.

StoriesofBike Website of The Month December 2014

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I have a confession to make. I love to watch hipster motorcycle videos. In fact they have to be downright stupid for me not to like them. Hell I’m even thinking about making one of my own, after all even though I am old as dirt I’m still so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis.

The website that will be brought to your attention today goes quite a bit beyond the typical bike videos normally produced by guys in small shops with custom wares to hawk or questionable skills to show off, and gets deeper into the personalities of the people who ride and love these motorcycles.

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We all dream of riding

Based in Australia, Cam Elkins is the creator of Stories of Bike, with the aid of his brother Jack who creates the music that accompanies the videos. Yes there is a video or two involving your typical tattooed 20 somethings with piercings, flannel shirts, and fuzzy beards working on some variation of custom bikes. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, and if that were all there is to it, watching these clips would still be a great way to waste a few minutes of your time on a fairly regular basis because of the strong production values the StoriesofBike.com team bring to the table .

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But these videos blow right past that, talking to the riders and builders in depth about motorcycles, life, love and how they came to be the people they are today. Yes there is fine machinery in these videos, but there are also fine people in these videos too, from different places & backgrounds but all connected by a common love of riding motorcycles. When you watch one of these clips you end up feeling like you know the person or persons being filmed & interviewed, a very difficult feat to pull off in the short film format.

The video embedded below especially touched my heart, there is nothing better than love that lasts all the way to the end. This is my favorite video at StoriesofBike.com watch it all the to the end.

 

 

Love baby, it’s what makes life worth living, especially when you have motorcycles to go with it.

So is StoriesofBike Website of the Month material? I absolutely think so, let me know if you like it as much as I did

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Peace Y’all,

Psyco

The Motopsyco.com 2013 year in review

Thanks to everyone for reading along. It is both humbling and inspiring to me. There will be some new adventures & some big changes going in the coming year, and I hope you all enjoy the ride! Now go read the stats if you want too!

Peace Y’all

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 31,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Rusty Lil Colson

Another kiddie bike joins the junkyard dogs. This one was spotted at a bicycle swap meet in Mt. Airy N.C.

Hopefully some one will give it a lot of love one day and make it rideable again.

Colson kiddie bike with truss rods

It was hard to resist buying this one.