'Motorcycle Tech and Travel' shares exciting places to ride and how to service, troubleshoot and repair motorcycles. "100 miles from nowhere" with a flat tire or an engine no start, your mechanical and troubleshooting skills plus the right spare parts and tools will be more important than how good you look in leather or standing on the foot pegs while drifting through corners. Preventive maintenance is as important as picking the right line at a stream crossing or riding defensively in traffic. This channel focuses on how to make your motorcycle more reliable and safer for adventure travel.

I have owned, ridden and repaired a wide range of road motorcycle. Dirt motorcycling began with a 1969 BSA 441cc Victor Special. Today, I ride a dual-sport Honda XR650R. As a mechanic, instructor, journalist and author of the Harley-Davidson Evolution V-Twin Owner's Bible™ (Bentley Publishers), the Sportster remains a favorite bike.—Moses Ludel

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