Jay Sherman

As most of you will remember, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) enacted a law in 2008 called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA). This act was in response to a number of public cases of tainted products reaching our children from countries like China, resulting in illness and death from children ingesting poisonous materials, mainly lead. This law was applied uniformly to products designed for children under 12 years old, unfortunately snaring youth-model moto… Continue

NY Motocross Family Fights to Ride

It’s almost winter. Why would a motorcycle rider in New York be excited for winter? Two words: Ice Racing!

Ice Racing requires specialized tires as you can imagine. The idea is to create enough traction so that your body stays off th… Continue

Racers of all kinds have one thing in common, the ability (either through courage, ignorance, arrogance or confidence) to push fear aside and pursue that one perfect (yet elusive) lap. To that end, they sacrifice weekend after weekend and paycheck after paycheck. Suffering along the way the slings and arrows of road trips, medical co-pays, spousal or parental protest and scars, bruises and raspberries galore. Find me a motocross racer… Continue

I often visit the Fallen Rider’s forum on the popular site Thumpertalk.com; can’t explain why, it brings tears to my eyes every time, but I still go. Part natural human curiosity, I guess. Thankfully, I don’t know anyone on there personally. I always wish there was something that I could do to help. I just don’t know how my comments would make a real difference.

When I came across the RiderDown Foundation, I made th… Continue