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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...

Exploring Historic Southern Arizona on a Honda CB500X

There is something about the Old West that appeals to romantics—myself included. Shoot-outs on Main Street, brothels with beautiful ladies, stagecoaches rushing along and...

An Alaskan Motorcycle Adventure How-To

Every adventurous motorcyclist dreams of riding to a far-off destination like Alaska on the spur of the moment; just drop everything and take off...

Down To Downieville: Rural California Motorcycle Ride

My machine had been idle too long during a busy summer, occupied by matters far less important than riding, so I said to Cookie...

The Cascade Loop: The Best of the Northwest

Riding a motorcycle in the Pacific Northwest is chock full of yin and yang. The sometimes long dreary winters feature predominantly gray skies and...

Palouse Wheatland Treasures: Motorcycle Ride Through Washington

Fall…not my favorite verb, but definitely my favorite time of year for riding at the latitude where I live. Those of us who choose...

Adventure on the Alcan: From Dawson Creek to Delta Junction and Beyond

I had been riding on a level plateau for a couple of days, a place where endless fields of wheat merge with the sky...

Moto Guzzi’s California 1400 Touring in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

Back roads make me happy. Two lanes, little traffic, preferably with lots of curves and undulations, rather like the better parts of California Routes...

Nevada’s Loneliest Road…and it isn’t U.S. 50

U.S. Highway 50 across the breadth of Nevada is billed as the state’s loneliest road. Having traversed U.S. 50 numerous times, I have to...

The Olympic Peninsula: Travel in Northwest Washington

Story and photos by Phil Buonpastore When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is look out the window. It’s a...

Hunting Waterfalls in Oregon

Oregon’s Cascade Mountains were created by volcanic fire and falling water. Today the fire is gone, but the volcanic formations and falling water remain,...

Great Roads: Motorcycle Riding in Montana

Yellowstone National Park, on the south end of Montana, is a veritable three-ring safari and special-effects razzle-dazzle where, no matter what you’re taking in,...

4 Corners 4 Kids: Traveling to the Four Corners of the U.S. For Charity

I have made some road trips in my nine years of riding, but I’ve never managed to stay gone long enough to want the...

High Sierra Adventure Weekend

“I want to come back here after the thaw.” Thus I remarked to my brother as we stared at the expanse of snow spreading out...

Crisscrossing the Lower Colorado River–Hoover Dam to the Oxbow Bridge

For more than 35 years, a contingent of aging Yuppies that includes Yours Truly has been convening at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley...

New Great Roads Website Now Available

Rider magazine has recently launched a new Great Roads section on its website that focuses on local and international motorcycle rides, roads and travel...

Southern Utah Splendor

For three decades, my buddy Ted and I have taken long rides from our homes near Portland, Oregon. Years ago, we exhausted all the...

Southwest Touring Ride on a 2013 Victory Vision Tour

"Last minute…but epic!” The attention-getting email was from Manny Pandya, the younger of the Amazing Pandya Brothers, two quick-witted gearheads who handle press relations for...

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