Virginia Motorcycle Rides

50 Best Motorcycle Roads in America

The December 2024 issue of Rider celebrated the magazine's 50th anniversary. Over the past half century, we have published thousands of travels stories, favorite...

Appalachians Motorcycle Ride: Backroads Bonanza

Dan and I met nearly 20 years ago while playing on a recreational ice hockey team in our hometown of Ottawa, Ontario. When we...

Alleghany Highlands: Virginia Motorcycle Ride

After a 400-mile ride from Louisville, Kentucky, to Clifton Forge, Virginia, relaxing on the wraparound porch at Ridgely Bed, Breakfast, and Historic Gardens was...

Border Hopping the Virginias: Virginia and West Virginia Motorcycle Ride

Riding challenging curves through beautiful mountain scenery spikes my happy gauge, and the border region of eastern West Virginia and western Virginia is ripe...

An Appalachians Motorcycle Ride Through Scenery and History | Favorite Ride

In late October, an Appalachians motorcycle ride is a gamble. Weather is the house, and over time, the house usually wins. But once in...

Healing Ride: A Father-and-Son Journey on the Blue Ridge Parkway and Beyond

The few months leading up to this ride, which included the famed Blue Ridge Parkway, had been rough. My wife was recovering from some...

A Father and Son’s Virginia and West Virginia Motorcycle Tour

Contributor Nathan Cuvelier and his father ride some some epic Appalachian and Blue Ridge backroads on their Virginia and West Virginia motorcycle tour, including...

Open Road BikeFest Coming June 22-25

A new exhibition, “The Open Road: The Art of the Motorcycle,” opens on June 16, 2022, at the William King Museum of Art in...

Favorite Ride: Lapping the Appalachians

Dad’s first sojourn through the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia needed to be grand. Dad is a desert...

Riding Virginia’s Crooked Road and Blue Ridge

Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains in autumn are a place of unique beauty not to be missed, especially from the open cockpit of a motorcycle....

35 Bucket List Motorcycle Rides

We all have a bucket list of motorcycle roads we’d like to ride before we highside off this mortal coil. Here are 35 recommended...

The Blue Ridge Parkway from the Backseat

Plenty of riders have sung the praises of the Blue Ridge Parkway. But I’m here to give you the straight story from the passenger’s...

Great Motorcycle Roads: West Virginia is for Riders

Click on the link below to download a PDF file of the Great Roads feature West Virginia is for Riders from the October 2012...

Virginia on a Tangent

story and photography by Alan Paulsen Some states just don’t lend themselves to the type of perimeter runs I accomplished on previous tours of Kansas...

Tri-state Motorcycle Tour: North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

story and photography by Clement Salvadori “Today we’re going to ride The Snake,” said Dave, over a cup of coffee. “We’re going to what?” I asked. “Ride...