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This website offers a preview of Friction Zone—an award-winning, monthly, motorcycle magazine for riders of all types of street bikes.

Friction Zone is the only motorcycle magazine—print or internet-based—that includes official motorcycle accident reports. These reports make excellent tools for improving your accident-avoidance skills. From bike and product reviews to local trip ideas to technical articles, Friction Zone has something for everyone.

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Cover Story Two Must-See Moto Exhibits in Southern California
by Kate Edwards

Thanks solely to the Guggenheim Museum's glorious (and spectacularly lucrative) "Art of the Motorcycle" event in the late 1990s, the nation's museum curators have come to realize that motorcycles are both transportation and art…

Discover California Livermore
by Amy Holland

National security, wineries, and guitars. What could possibly unite these three disparate items?…

Dualsport

The San Jacinto Mountains, Part 2
by Amy Holland

Last month we explored a portion of the San Jacinto Mountains on the eastern edge of the southern California town of Hemet. Luckily these mountains have more than one good dualsport road, so although we will be in the same general vicinity of our previous ride, we will hardly retrace our steps. And despite making this ride in the middle of July, we will have some water crossings to negotiate. …

Yamaha's Three Smallest Dualsports
by Amy Holland

Yamaha offers three very distinct under 250cc dualsports—the TW200, XT250, and WR250R. Right off the bat I can say that my preference is the WR—it's tall and fuel injected. But that's not to say that the other two bikes don't have their place in the world of dualsports. Each bike is more than capable of providing fun in the dirt. It all boils down to who you are and what you want to do…

From the Editor Teaching
by Amy Holland

Teaching forces you to really think about what you are doing and why you are doing it…

Lost In America Telling It Like It Is
by Fred Rau

If you know me, or have followed my scribblings for any length of time, you know that over the years I have often criticized the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) for many of their policies and actions…

On the Scene—California Construction Zone Danger
by Officer Vincente Ramirez

On a cool spring morning, a rider was traveling on a major freeway through a suburb of Los Angeles at the beginning of the morning commute…

Product Review

Book: Let's Ride
by Kate Edwards

Every once in a while an unsolicited review copy of a new book arrives on my desk, and once the wrapping is off, I just have to laugh…

Special Feature

Honda's Dual Clutch Transmission
by Fred Rau

For more than 30 years, motorcycle manufacturers have struggled with the concept of putting an automatic transmission in motorcycles. There have been a lot of attempts, some more successful than others, but none that really hit the mark—until now. Dual-clutch transmissions (DCT) have been all the rage in the high-end sports car market for several years now, but with the new VFR1200, Honda becomes the first manufacturer to apply the technology to a motorcycle, even if as a $1,500 option…

Tech Tips

Types of Bikes—Choosing What's Best for You

by Ken Freund

One of the questions I hear most often is: "What is the best motorcycle?"…

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