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Motorcycle Views Newsletter for 06/05/2016

By Walter F. Kern

 Motorcycle Views Newsletter

Vol. 10, No. 12, June 5, 2016

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1. Recent Additions to the Motorcycle Views Website:

2. Motorcycle Seat Heights:

I've had a popular Motorcycle Seat Heights feature for quite a few years. I have just begun to update this feature with the seat heights for all major motorcycle makes for 2016 including electric models by Zero.

I have completed the 2016 seat heights for Indian, Victory, and Kawasaki. The remaining makes will be covered in future newsletters. Note that these data don't change much from year to year for the same model. However, there are some differences for 2016. Watch future newsletters for other motorcycle makes.

2016 Motorcycle Seat Heights for Indian

2016 Motorcycle Seat Heights for Victory

2016 Motorcycle Seat Heights for Kawasaki

ALL Motorcycle Seat Heights

3. Women on Motorcycles:

Pictures of women on motorcycles We present here a picture gallery of women motorcycle riders and their motorcycles as submitted by women visitors to the Motorcycle Views site. Women riding motorcycles now comprise about nine percent of all motorcyclists.

One of the biggest features on Motorcycle Views is Moto Pics, where visitors to the site can display and describe their motorcycles. There are many women riders in Moto Pics. The Women on Motorcycles picture gallery has been created by extracting pictures of women riders from Moto Pics. The diversity of women motorcycle riders shown is apparent.

We Need Your Help

Are you a woman motorcycle rider? Send in a picture of you and your motorcycle.

We will place it in the Women on Motorcycles gallery. Submit a picture and description today. These pictures will also become part of Moto Pics.

Submit a Picture of You and Your Motorcycle

View the Picture Gallery => Latest Pictures or => All Pictures

4. Newsletter is Now Monthly:

When I started issuing newsletters at About.com in 1999, they were weekly. When my four forums got very popular, I added a second weekly forum-only newsletter. That meant I was doing two newsletters each week.

When I started Motorcycle Views, I issued one weekly newsletter. That continued for a while until I decided to stop sending the newsletter.

Some more time passed and I restarted the newsletter every two weeks.

Then I started writing motorcycle books. So far, I've finished four books, each with a Kindle edition and a paperback edition. I even did two of the books in Audible audiobook editions. I'm currently working on two more books, one a memoir.

I'm finding it more and more difficult to continue delivering a newsletter every two weeks. It just takes up too much time.

So, beginning with this issue, I will be sending out the Motorcycle Views Newsletter once a month on the first Sunday of the month. Of course, you can always visit my site any time to check out what's going on.

5. The Motorcycle Views Website is also on your Smartphone or Tablet:

Are you relying more and more on your cellphone or tablet and less and less on your PC or MAC? Remember that all that great motorcycling information on Motorcycle Views is as near as your cellphone. It's also in a new format designed to fit your portable screen. Check us out anywhere you need motorcycle information.

6. Social Media:

See me on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, and YouTube.

7. Today's Motorcycle Views Poll:

I'm running one new Motorcycle Views Poll in each issue of the newsletter. Please participate in each poll so we can all find out what's happening in motorcycling.

Here's Poll No. 40 (It may take a few seconds to load, so please be patient.): Honda Gold Wing has an air bag option. Would you buy it?

The latest Motorcycle Views Poll also appears on the front page of the Motorcycle Views website.

ALL Motorcycle Views Polls

8. Five Motorcycle Terms:

I am featuring five (5) of my Motorcycle Terms in each issue of the newsletter.

9. Motorcycle Picture of the Month for June 2016:

Motorcycle Picture of the Month - June 2016 - 2005 Honda Shadow VT750:
See the latest Picture of the Month and previous pictures. If you'd like to be considered for Picture of the Month, send me a picture and description of your bike. Submit Picture.

10. Here are some very popular articles on the Motorcycle Views Site. Take a look:

11. Latest Motorcycle Pictures:

See the latest received pictures by category. (Send me a picture and description of your bike.)



"This is my 1982 Naked Honda Gold Wing . . . more. -- Paul Aguiar"

12. My Four Motorcycle Books:

I hope you will take a look at my four motorcycle books, available in paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon.com. These books make great, inexpensive gifts. In fact, you can purchase all four for less than $30 total. I have reduced the price of my four Kindle editions to $0.0 (FREE) IF you also first purchase the corresponding paperback edition. That way you can always have the book with you if you have a tablet or smartphone with you. None of the paperbacks has color pictures in them owing to the high price of producing a book with color. However, every Kindle edition has color pictures, so the Getting Started Riding a Motorcycle and Motorcycle Haiku Poetry Kindle books are in full color.

My latest book (released December 1, 2015), Motorcycle Kick-Starts, also available on Amazon.com in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook (Audible) editions, contains a condensed view of motorcycling for new and returning riders. It's designed to whet your appetite for more while sticking to basic motorcycle information without overpowering you with details. The book starts out telling you what motorcycles are and showing you how you might learn to become an active, safe rider. Then ten short motorcycle stories, written by actual motorcyclists, are presented. These stories allow you to observe some unusual things that happen to people who ride motorcycles. Between stories, some practical advice about motorcycles is given in the form of ten motorcycle How-Tos and ten motorcycle Tips that you will need to know to become a proficient rider. Click the book cover to learn how to buy it on Amazon.com. NEW! As of March 10, 2016, there is now an Audible audiobook version of Motorcycle Kick-Starts. You can get it on Amazon, Audible, or iTunes.

My book, 50 Wild Motorcycle Tales, contains a collection of stories that originally were only available on my website. Fifty of these stories were selected, intensively edited, and compiled into the book. I wrote five of the stories. The book is available on Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook (Audible) editions. Click the book cover to learn how to buy it on Amazon.com. The Audible edition is also available for immediate download on iTunes and Audible.

My book, Getting Started Riding a Motorcycle, was first published in 2011 but only as a Kindle edition. It was revised in 2014 and also made available in a paperback edition. Click the book cover to learn how to buy it on Amazon.com.

My book, Motorcycle Haiku Poetry, also available on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle editions, contains haiku poems about motorcycles. Haiku is a simple poem of three lines with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven in the second line. Each of the nearly 60 poems is coupled with a motorcycle picture and description related to the poem. I wrote seven of the haiku poems. Click the book cover to learn how to buy it on Amazon.com.

13. Newsletter Archive:

I now have a Motorcycle Views Newsletter Archive to store all my newsletters. The archive gives the year, month, day, and subject for each newsletter. Each newsletter contains many links to the Motorcycle Views website. A link to the archive will also be included on the Home page of the site and on the page where users can join the newsletter list.

Visit the Motorcycle Views Newsletter Archive

14. Polar Bear Grand Tour Best Pictures and Videos for the 2015-2016 Season:

Here are my best pictures and videos of the 2015-2016 Polar Bear Grand Tour season. The 2016-2017 season will begin in October, 2016.

See the Best Pictures and Videos of the 2015-2016 Polar Bear Grand Tour season.

The Polar Bears consist of 550 riders from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Delaware, who ride each Sunday to a different prescribed destination where they sign-in and receive points. There is, usually, a restaurant at or near the destination. It gets cold, windy, and snowy on these rides. I've been a Polar Bear member for nearly 25 years, and I built and continue to maintain their website.

The picture to the right was taken at the Cape May, NJ VFW.

15. Help Grow Motorcycle Views:

The Motorcycle Views Website is here for you. We encourage you to submit a story, picture, poem, salvage yard recommendation, user review of your own bike, tattoo, YouTube video you made of your bike, motorcycle tip, etc. These will be evaluated for inclusion into one of our major features. Send us a submission today and share part of your motorcycling experience with our many readers. Read how to make a submission.

Walter F. Kern's Author Page on AmazonThanks again for coming along for the ride in this edition of the Motorcycle Views Newsletter. -- Walter

For New Subscribers:

Expect newsletters on the first Sunday of each month.

Please understand that the Motorcycle Views Newsletter is NOT the Motorcycle Views website. The newsletter provides a few links to content on the Motorcycle Views website. Once you click a link in the newsletter, you'll be getting access to content on the Motorcycle Views site.

If you'd like to view any of our past newsletters, just go to the newsletter archives page.

Thanks for signing up for the Motorcycle Views Newsletter. Using this Newsletter, I'll keep you up-to-date with what's going on in the Motorcycle Views Blog, the Motorcycle Views Website, and the Motorcycle Views Forum. The forum has a new look as of February 13, 2015. Take a look. Not sure what a blog is? It's like a daily readout of what I'm thinking about, similar to a diary at times. Most often, I'm using mine right now to tell my visitors what has been added to the Motorcycle Views site.

See me on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, and YouTube.

The Motorcycle Views Website is also on your Smartphone or Tablet:

Are you relying more and more on your cellphone or tablet and less and less on your PC or MAC? Remember that all that great motorcycling information on Motorcycle Views is as near as your cellphone. It's also in a new format designed to fit your portable screen. Check us out anywhere you need motorcycle information.

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