Russ Brown Motorcycle Blog

  Ortega Highway (State Route 74) is the only road that crosses the 60-mile-long Santa Ana Mountain range that borders Orange and Riverside Counties. Thankfully, due to the ruggedness of the area, the route hasn’t been flattened, straightened and widened into...

As far as I’m concerned, the adjective “awesome” is greatly overused; “That cup of coffee was awesome!” If you consider that the word describes something that elicits awe, which is a feeling of wonder and amazement bordering on the divine, then for me a mere cup of...

Something I have noticed lately is how many current “experts” in rider training have not taken new training from anyone else in a very long time. The subject came up when I asked one of the more vocal racing school instructors in the industry when the last time he...

I grew up in a small village in the English countryside halfway between London and Oxford. My grandad, dad, and younger brother were/are all riders, and I started riding at 16 years old and have been riding for over 40 years now. In the late 1980s I moved to the U.S....

My workday round-trip commute is almost 70 miles and takes three hours or more when driving. That racks up to be 15 hours per week or 750 hours (over 31 days) for a 50-week work year, if you’re lucky to get two weeks of vacation. But, because I take my bike to work, I...