At 37, I went back to the dirt with Supercross champ Broc Tickle as my coach. The crashes hurt, the lessons stuck, and the obsession took hold fast. Author transitions from street to dirt bike riding, ...

Then I started to take motorcycles seriously, with a hefty dose of track lessons to help instill skills that might help me tame the 200-plus-horsepower bikes that Ducati, MV Agusta, and Honda loan me ...