FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

MOTORCYCLING - SAVE (AND ENRICH) YOUR LIFE BY THINKING

London ENGLAND  (20 August 2007) A new website, www.motorcyclemeditation.com is launched today, to help motorcyclists in their thinking, and, more important, to show NON-motorcyclists how to think about everyday motorcycling.

Unlike other motorcycling websites, motorcyclemeditation.com does not dwell on machinery or racing, it conveys the experience of day-to-day motorcycle riding.

Many people, both male and female, contemplate taking up motorcycling.  It is obviously convenient and it looks enjoyable.  But what does it actually feel like? How safe is it?  Is it dangerous to ride in the rain?  Alone on a motorcycle, what goes through a rider’s mind?

Motorcycle training courses go as far as the licence test but no further.  Yet a trick question on these courses is, where's the most important piece of safety equipment on a motorcycle? Answer, between the ears.  Thinking leads to safe riding.  But thinking about what?

Motorcyclemeditation.com answers these questions by following the fifty mile each way daily commute of the author, whose motorcycle moniker is “JB”.  It does more than just list out tips, it evokes the actual feeling of the daily ride, and places tips in this real life context.  

Motorcyclemeditation.com is a good read even for those who never ride and never will.  It also appeals to everybody who already rides, or contemplates taking it up.  Set in the UK, the website is based on an earlier version which attracted wide readership, both male and female, from other countries including US, Japan and Australia.  The challenge of motorcycling is the same everywhere.

JB says “The combination of motion and solitude on a motorcycle are ideal for thinking.  And the thinking can, like a motorcycle, follow unexpected paths through interesting terrain. “

JB lives in North London and rides to work in Surrey.  Asked about age, the response is:  “I’m thirty two.  At least, that’s my inner motorcycling age. Beyond youthful delusions of invulnerability, experienced enough not to believe everything claimed, young enough to still have the zest for physical engagement. A good inner motorcycling age to be.”

Motorcyclemeditation.com has no commercial links and no vested interests to promote.  Its sole purpose is to communicate the thrill and challenge of motorcycling.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

Sample quotes from motorcyclemeditation.com:

•    “But the payoff comes when you climb on the motorcycle. If it’s been push push push getting ready, you’ll carry on push push pushing on the roads. And you’ll have a willing accomplice, a rampantly eager engine. Break the natural pace of the morning, and you break the natural pace of the road. Maybe you get away with it a few times, but not for ever.”

•    “Then on the motorcycle, relief. The road empty, no mystery, it just means there’s a problem upstream. Cleansing velocity. Soft curves, gentle g-forces. Cloudy summer sky full of colour and drama. Honing away the gunk and poisons of the day.”

•    “Over the weekend, talking about the pillion ride, my sweet one, oh I enjoyed that. Solitude. Different in character from any other sort. No opportunity or inclination to converse.  Burring motorcycle engine sound, road surface and white markings flashing by, steady beat, buffeted pleasantly in the wind. Noise level noticeable but friendly.”

•    “In the rain, a fifty percent increase to the safety bubble in front. Partly to stay out of the spray. Partly because braking distances are longer. Partly because if there’s trouble, you don’t brake, you accelerate. Braking puts the weight on the unstable front wheel, accelerating puts it on the stable back wheel. So you need space to accelerate into. Also, ride in a lower gear, use it to slow down without braking or accelerate without delaying.”



CONTACT:

 “JB” (author of motorcyclemeditation.com)
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+44(0)780 719 0287