When life hits you hard — be it grief, trauma, anxiety, or just the bone-deep exhaustion of keeping it all together , juggling rent, bills, kids, job— motorcycling becomes more than just a machine we ride when the suns out — or not. It becomes a mirror of our own thoughts, our heads, and of where we think we are in life.

Not surprisingly, the results showed that riding a motorcycle sharpens your sensory awareness and improves attention. So, in short, the participants in the study showed stronger brain responses to changes in their environment which resulted in better focus.