Ron Ayalon

Making Your Motorcycle Uniquely Yours

There’s no one in the world exactly like you is there? No, of course not, so why should your motorcycle be just like so many thousands of others that came off the same production line? Your bike should fit your height, your riding style, and all the other... Read >

Ride Safe When Riding With Friends

You and a few friends have all bought motorcycles and now you’re going to be riding together. Peter has that super cool Suzuki Boulevard M109, Joe is on his very hot Kawasaki ZX-10R Ninja, Bob has his Yamaha Star Raider, which he loves, and you’re on your... Read >

Tag-O-Rama Offers Fun Reason to Ride

It’s not as if you need a reason to ride your motorcycle. You’ve got that super-nice Yamaha Raider parked out in the garage and you itch to ride it. It’s more a matter of where to go. You’ve been on every road out of town, turned down every interesting... Read >

Must Ride Roads For Every Motorcycle Owner

Pack your bags. Load all your gear onto that drop-dead gorgeous Road Star Silverado out in your garage and get ready to roll. We’ve got a bucket list and time’s a wastin’! You know you want to do it. You don’t buy a serious road machine like that if yo... Read >

Intimacy With Your Partner and Your Jealous Dog – Oh, Now That’s Fun!

Picture this scenario: You and your spouse or partner are on the couch watching a movie and you start to get a little amorous. Maybe you are kissing or just snuggling and then here comes the dog. A moment ago, he was happily curled up on the floor and now... Read >

Microchipping Your Dog

Losing your pet is a nightmare: the worry and the stress on both owner and dog is tremendous. A panicked dog can travel many miles, get injured, poisoned, or hit by a car. Back in the old days, a poster and phone calls to all the local dog-related profe... Read >

Canine Mental Health: Do Human Diagnoses Make Sense?

Maggie seems tired. Although her Lyme disease test came back negative, she is just sleepy and listless day after day. She doesn’t seem interested in food, and doesn’t even want to destroy her stuffed squirrel anymore. Sadie seems to tremble and shake... Read >

How To Start Up a Doggy Day Care Business

You have dogs, you love dogs, and you are great with dogs: everyone tells you so. You would be a natural at doggy day care, the perfect stay-at-home business for a dog lover. You can absolutely envision yourself surrounded by wagging dogs of all shapes ... Read >

Understanding Dogs and The Job They Were Bred to Perform

Although I am not a dog trainer, I have learned quite a lot about dogs over the last few years. Prior to owning dogs, I will admit, I was no more knowledgeable than most people. I, too, saw dogs not for the job they were bred to do, but for the feelings t... Read >

Training Your Puppy The Right Way

Ginger is the sweetest, smartest, most wonderful dog in the whole world – well of course you are going to think that, she’s yours! If you hope the rest of the world will someday notice how clever and wonderful she is, you will need to train her. Nothing w... Read >

Be Aware of Different Motorcycle Laws in Different States

OK, so you’re blasting along on your Can-Am Spyder RT, in the middle of a seven-day sweep through nine states. You’re honey’s on behind you in that plush passenger seat and you’re got everything you needed for the trip stowed away in that rear top-trunk t... Read >

Loud Pipes Not Necessary for Safe Motorcycling

I’m not even going to get into the argument about whether or not “loud pipes save lives." There are plenty of thousands of riders of a certain American-made motorcycles who will swear to that mantra, while a good many researchers will testify to the contr... Read >

Racking Up Those Motorcycle Miles, In A Big Way

What’s the longest distance you’ve ever ridden your motorcycle in one day? Three hundred miles? Five hundred miles? How about one thousand miles? You might wonder if 1,000 miles in one day is even possible but it not only is, there’s an organization co... Read >

Even Wintertime is Motorcycle Weather

OK, granted you’re not going to be rolling your motorcycle out when there’s a winter storm pounding down on you. Or even a few days later (although that might be the perfect time to bring out that Kawasaki Mule 4x4). But, except in the parts of this count... Read >

Hiking with your Dog

Hiking is hip these days, and why not? Offering excellent exercise, beautiful scenery, and an opportunity to recharge world weary batteries and reconnect with the real world, hiking is a fantastic hobby for nearly anyone. Best of all? Unlike, say, tenni... Read >