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Jimmy Lewis Off-Road School Review

As much as I love riding off-road, every time I leave the pavement my anxiety spikes. My chest gets tight, my heart begins to...

Sport Touring in Southeastern Australia

If you go by such films as Mad Max and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Australia must seem like a vast...

Riding Pennsylvania’s Northeast Corner

When I want to enjoy a fantastic ride, I look for a place with a diversity of sights, great roads, and the opportunity to...

Kevin and Karen Browne's 'Round the World Journey

At first glance, you don’t believe your eyes; then you’re convinced it’s a leftover movie prop from Mad Max. The reality is, it’s a...

Rocketing Through the Cascades on Triumph’s Rocket III Touring

One day I got a postcard from friends who were up on the North Cascades Scenic Highway (Washington Route 20), showing the hairpin turn...

The 2nd Vintage Motorcycle Festival at the LeMay Museum in Tacoma, Washington

On a beautiful blue-sky Saturday morning, some 300 pre-1980 motorcycles grace the several acres of grass outside LeMay—America’s Car Museum. If any reader thinks...

Kyle Petty Cross-Country Charity Ride Daily Update—Day 8 and Final Thoughts

EDITOR'S NOTE: Rider magazine asked our two good friends David Andreas and John Puerner, who are participating in the 20th Anniversary of the Kyle...

The 40-Year Ride: A Look Back at Four Decades of Rider Magazine

You can look at 452 issues of Rider magazine in a lot of ways. End-to-end, for example, they would run just over 400 feet,...

Caffeinate Your Ride at the Black Lightning Motorcycle Café

Far northern California is an ideal motorcycling destination for many reasons, from the rugged coastal scenery to the majestic redwoods to the hidden backroads...

Kyle Petty Cross-Country Charity Ride Daily Update—Day 5

Rider magazine asked our two good friends David Andreas and John Puerner, who are participating in the 20th Anniversary of the Kyle Petty Charity...

Kyle Petty Cross-Country Charity Ride Daily Update—Day 4

Rider magazine asked our two good friends David Andreas and John Puerner, who are participating in the 20th Anniversary of the Kyle Petty Charity...

Exploring Southwest New Mexico By Motorcycle

Not caring for Interstate highways, I choose to ride the “blue highways” north and south of Interstate 40 from Grants, New Mexico, where I...

Kyle Petty Cross-Country Charity Ride Daily Update—Day 3

Rider magazine asked our two good friends David Andreas and John Puerner, who are participating in the 20th Anniversary of the Kyle Petty Charity...

Kyle Petty Cross-Country Charity Ride Daily Update—Day 2

Rider magazine asked our two good friends David Andreas and John Puerner, who are participating in the 20th Anniversary of the Kyle Petty Charity...

Motorcycle Touring in Cuba with MotoDiscovery

As our early-morning flight from Miami descended into the Havana airport, the pilot came on the PA: “Ladies and gentlemen, we will be landing...

Kyle Petty Cross-Country Charity Ride Daily Update – Day 1

Rider magazine asked our two good friends David Andreas and John Puerner, who are participating in the 20th Anniversary of the Kyle Petty Charity...

Kyle Petty Cross-Country Charity Ride Daily Update—The Kickoff

Rider magazine asked our two good friends David Andreas and John Puerner, who are participating in the 20th Anniversary of the Kyle Petty Charity...

Cannon Ball Project Departs Saturday, May 3

Saturday, May 3, is a special day. One hundred years ago to the day, Erwin George Baker set off from San Diego, California, on...

Riding Maine’s Rugged, Winding Coast

Measured in a straight line, the entire coast of Maine from Kittery to Lubec isn’t even 230 miles long. Visit the Maine coast, however,...

Retrospective: Honda CB1000: 1994-1996

Take a casual glance at the motorcycle in the picture and one might mistake it for Honda’s latest retro-bike, the CB1100. Nope, we’re going...

Rider’s 2014 National Motorcycle Events Calendar

The sun is warming, the snow banks are melting and the temperatures are finally above freezing. It’s time to change the oil, adjust the...

Sierra Nevadas: Three Days and Three Rides in California's Motorcycle Playground

For most motorcyclists, riding the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California means cruising over passes like Ebbetts, Carson, Monitor, Sonora or Tioga, or visiting the...

Las Vegas Auction Action

You know you’ve been to Las Vegas—Sin City, Nevada—too many times when you and your best friend are going for three days, and a...

Star 2013: Sport Touring is This Club’s Middle Name

The guy at the beer tent at 3 p.m. during STAR 2013 was the loneliest guy in Lexington, Kentucky. People actually felt sorry for...

Motorcycle Touring in West Virginia (and a Bit of Virginia)

There’s an old joke about the Mountain State that goes something like this: “If you could flatten out West Virginia, it would be as...

WindBlownAmy: Artist, Rider, Survivor

The sidecar rig had an unlikely driver, a small woman with long, braided, graying hair. Some might have dismissed her as just another biker...

AltRider’s 2014 Taste of Dakar

Sun, rain, wind. Hot and cold. Sand, mud, gravel, snow, even some asphalt. Long hours in the saddle, challenging routes, motorcycle field repairs. Grizzled...

The 15 Best U.S. Roads Motorcycle Challenge

The Southern California Motorcycling Association produces an annual Best 15 U.S. Roads Challenge. The 15 roads are announced annually as the “collection” for that...

Death Valley—An Adventurous Expedition

Let’s face it: the recent plethora of action reality TV shows pander to the empty space in our DNA that grew out of having...

Great Motorcycle Riding in Southeastern Ohio

Each day in Jackson, Ohio, I ride State Route 93, which shares its title with Main Street until it pops out on the other...

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