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A Kick in the Sportster Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:25 AM PDT If your going to have a sportster in your life, there are a few things you’ll be getting well acquainted with. One is that other supposedly “hardened riders” will tend to ridicule you by saying things like, “when you get a real bike” or “when you grow up….”  or “isn’t that your wife’s/girlfriends/womans bike?”…etc.  Granted, those of us that have ridden them for years can appreciate the simplicity, the ease of repair (in most cases) and the aesthetics of a simple machine.  This isn’t something new either to Pat Patterson of Led Sled as he’s been providing innovative and quality made parts for years to the sportster market.  As part of the Limpnickie Lot, we got to know Pat first hand and he’s built some cool parts for our one-off builds, so we know his dedication to the industry. At the last Daytona Bike Rally Pat started tempting everyone with this little sweet kicker for evo sportsters. How ever you want to build a bike, putting a kicker on it is something that definitely sets it apart.  Kit includes main shaft, kicker cover, kicker arm and kicker pedal.  NOTE: You will have to replace the main shaft. So take a close look at Pat’s newest baby.  You won’t be disappointed for sure. Check out Led Sleds site HERE.     Go ahead, share the news with friends & enjoy. Best thing you'll do all day!: Random Posts RockMoto’s One Tank One Day Easyriders features “Errant 2″. Guilty’s “Errant” Rolling Around Town Now! 9th Annual V-Twin Expo Wide-Glide Girder Hits The Road Dilemma of 2 Coasts? Errant Pic’s and Update Steve Ross Newest Guest Editor

Our Invisible Gorilla Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT Whether you’ve been a rider for one day or 90 years, one thing we have in common: we’ve had (or will have) close calls with other riders and or drivers. It’s a fact of life.  It’s expected. It’s inevitable! So when i picked up the newest issue of BMWON (BMW Owners News) this past months i read with interest this article.  It (and the published book) attempts to shed light on our behaviors, both behind the handlebars and the wheel. “We are all amateur psychologist. We intuitively grasp the reasons for our own behavior and that of others. We have priviledged access into the workings of our own minds.  After all, who can know us better than we know ourselves?!  We see the world as it is, we know what we know, and we know why we hold the beliefs we do.  Or do we? Imagine you are watching a video in which people are passing basketballs. Your task is just to count how many times the players wearing white jerseys pass the ball.  Of course, you would notice if a person in a gorilla suit walked through the middle of the video, pausing in the center of the game to thump his chest at you, and casually strolled off the screen.  Wouldn’t you?  As it turns out, about 50% of people who watch this video don’t see the gorilla at all! Yet 90 percent of people are firmly convinced that they would.  That mismatch between what we see and what we think we see is what we call “the illusion of attention.” It is one of the many ways that our intuitions about our own mind fail to live up to reality, and one of the illusions that can affect your motorcycling experiences. This illusion is central to why car drivers so often turn left in front of oncoming motorcycles, failing to yield the right of way.  We assume that as long as we keep our eyes on the road, if something important happens, we’ll notice it.  But, it’s entirely possible to look right at something without seeing it, and unexpected objects and events often often fail to capture our attention.  In most places, motorcycles are less common on the road than are cars.  Consequently, they are unexpected, and to a large extend, we see only what we expect to see.  Unfortunately, our daily experiences reinforce intuition that we’ll notice anything that matters when in fact we only become aware of those things we happened to notice.  If you missed the gorilla and I never asked you about it, you’d never know that you had missed anything.  In fact, you can look rigth at the gorilla and still not see it.  That’s why drivers often claim to have looked in the direction of a motorcyclist before turning, yet still never saw them.  It’s also why motorcyclist often claim that drivers made eye contact before failing to yeield the right of way.  Both are telling the truth, but both assume that lookin is the same as seeing.  The illusion of attention affects riders, too.  Motorcyclist assume they notice impending risks and hazards even if they are not looking for them.  They can miss information that is plainly visible.  The illusion of attention is one of several exampls of mistaken intuitions about our own minds.  We have cognitive limitations that are a necessary byproduct of the way our minds work.  Fo rexample, we need to be able to focus attention without being distracted, and that ability is a good thing.  Our mistaken understanding of it is not.” This is an article written by Daniel Simons and covers portions of his and co-writer Christopher Chabris book, “The Invisible Gorilla” regarding our state of mind and possibly why we end up in accidents.  You can order this book at their site, www.theinvisiblegorilla.com Go ahead, share the news with friends & enjoy. Best thing you'll do all day!: Related Posts You May Also Like “Hot Crotch” solution from Diamond Gussett Licks’ Cycles Visormatic 6000 Hot-Rods, Hot Bikes and Peeled Eye-Balls Trade in that clunker for a motorcycle!?

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