Lead-Law Finally Fixed The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) reports that the lead law has finally been fixed. On August 1, 2011, H.R. 2715 was introduced by U.S. Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), chair of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade and G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), ranking member of the same subcommittee. The bill would exempt […] More »

Perhaps the factor we are most familiar with each time we ride, yaw refers to the forces of directional change. In perfectly ideal conditions, your ATV’s rear wheels should track perfectly behind the front wheels with even distribution of weight. The reality is that yaw rate does what it can to upset our quads’ chassis […] More »

We deal with pitch every single time the ground turns skyward or descends. We counter this shift in gravity by body positioning: Leaning forward over the bars on steep climbs and hanging off the rear of the ATV when descending. Pitch is also the factor responsible for moves like the wheelie or stoppie. Pitch plays […] More »

Roll is movement about a horizontal axis (think of the plane’s wings rising or dipping), pitch is also about a horizontal axis (nose pointing upward or down) and finally yaw is rotation about a vertical axis (turning left or right). In terms of riding, all three of these factors come into play—especially when our wheels lose […] More »

Nobody respects the art of multitasking quite as much as your ATVC editors- who, at present, are watching television, eating cold chicken and writing this article. So when it comes to the idea of hitting two birds with one stone as it were, we’re naturally interested. But when you look at what these two lazy […] More »