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California Motorcycle Touring: Reno to Laughlin

story and photography by Mark Travis Westbound Interstate 80 carried us along the Truckee River from Reno to the Donner Summit, where we looked down...

Idaho: The Harley Rider's Gem State

Idaho’s nickname, the Gem State, is just about perfect. Our five-day tour of Idaho was just about perfect, too. We happened to pick a...

Praising Arizona: Riding the Grand Canyon State

The great state of Arizona—which combines endless vistas of scenery beyond description with incredible riding opportunities has always been a favorite of mine. As...

Arizona Motorcycle Rides: Bloody Basin and the American Southwest

story and photography by K.D. Margosian Big Bug Creek, Table Mesa, Bloody Basin, Montezuma Well, Dead Horse Ranch—graphic names that conjure up images associated with...

California Motorcycle Rides: The Ash Creek Wildlife Area

story and photography by Denis Rouse It’s the third week of January here at home on the high plains of northeast California, and I’m actually...

Motorcycle Touring Lake Tahoe: All About the Lake on the Border

Story and photography by Olaf Wolff During the record-breaking heat spell of 2006, when the days were too fiercely humid and miserable for anything other...

The North Cascades: Riding Highway 20

Made up of smooth roads with tight hairpin curves, straights made for passing, two mountain passes and some of the most stunning sights you...

California Motorcycle Rides: The Medicine Lake Loop

From my living room here in Big Valley I can see splayed across the northwestern horizon the seemingly recumbent silhouette of a broad mountain...

Best Washington Motorcycle Roads: Highway 20

Story and photography by Susan Benton Motorcycling has been my husband's passion since he was a teenager in the 1960s. I began riding as a...

Remembering 1947 Hollister

(This article was published in the August 2006 issue of American Rider.) Fifty-three years after Brando’s wild ride, we went looking for Johnny. You know,...

Motorcycle Travel in Washington State

story and photography by Jerry Smith The state of Washington’s tourism board had this idea. Invite a group of motojournalists to ride around and report...

Motorcycle Travel in Palouse, Washington

You’ve got to love Thomas Wolfe, the truly great American writer who died at 38 in 1938, but not before he passionately put thousands...

Exploring the Oregon Coast

Each of the previous two years, my three buddies and I have taken week-long trips into the high desert of eastern Washington and Oregon...

Idaho Crossing: Riding with the Ghosts of Lewis and Clark

Slogging on foot for days through deep snow on unmarked mountain trails with little to eat isn’t anyone’s idea of fun, but that’s how...

Motorcycle Riding in Death Valley

You want shock and awe? I was shocked and awed, riding the biggest production V-twin made along a winding road that was dropping thousands...

The Road to Deadhorse, Alaska

Loss of cell phone signal along the way for some riders may equal stepping off the end of the earth, which they can physically...

Riding a Small Chunk of Northern California

Traveling along the Usal Road, somewhere on Jackass Ridge, I half expected to meet a stagecoach pulled by four horses. Which was the basic...

Three Passes, One Snowstorm: Riding California's Mountain Roads

It’s late May, a week before Memorial Day, and a new Honda Gold Wing is in the garage. There is perfect spring weather, the...

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