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I’m one lucky guy. Since I was a kid it seems things have somehow gone the right way for me. Whenever I’ve come to...

Clancy's Conquest: The First Ride Around the World

Carl Stearns Clancy had a curious mind and a restless soul. Growing up in New England at the dawn of the 20th century, this...

Great American Motorcycle Expedition of a Polish Girl

Weronika Kwapisz, a rider, traveler, and author of the e-book Everything Starts From a Dream, recently crossed North America on an 80-day solo adventure on a...

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...

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,...

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...

The Timeless Ride, Profile: Hubert Kriegel, World Traveler

After his third daughter, Jessica, graduated from college, Hubert Kriegel realized something. He could stay in the daily grind, and 10 years from now...

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,...

Southern Loop: Eldorado by Eldorado

Would you set out for South America on a bike you bought last week, from someone in another country? We’re pretty sure what the...

El Tanque: A Russian Conquest of Latin America

I looked at the steep slope in front of me, littered with large boulders, deep ruts and debris, and wondered how I’d gotten myself...

Riding Sardinia and Corsica with IMTBike

It was our second morning in Sardinia. After a bountiful breakfast we were riding along 30 miles of coast road that could cause California’s...

Edelweiss Bike Travel Touring Center Alps | Tour Review

The Bucket List is a funny, heartstring-pulling movie about two terminally ill men who complete a wish list of experiences before they kick the...

Dreaming of Africa: Ayres African Southern Cross Adventure | Tour Review

It was pitch dark, and the air buzzed with strange insect sounds and animal calls over the quiet ticking of the Land Cruiser’s cooling...

Rider Magazine's Top 10 Motorcycle Stories of 2012

We're taking a look back at 2012 by reviewing our ridermag.wpengine.com page views. Naturally, our homepage (ridermag.wpengine.com) drew the most page views in 2012....

Motorcycle Travel in Hope, Whistler and the Sea to Sky Highway

It was noon when my wife, Judy, and I left the rental shop in Vancouver where we had picked up the 2011 Harley-Davidson we...

Letters to the Editor: Dark Side

We received a tremendous amount of response to the article Tales from the Dark Side: Putting Car Tires on Motorcycles in the July 2012 issue....

2012 Rider Staff Motorcycle Camping Challenge

Ride to Live, Live to Camp——THE 2012 RIDER STAFF MOTORCYCLE CAMPING CHALLENGE In spite of our best efforts to provide for Murphy’s Law around...

Border Run: Montorcycle Travel in Washington and Canada

(The article Border Run was printed in the August 2012 issue of Rider.) Story and photos by Ben Getz Good things come in threes, they say…or...

Great Motorcycle Riding and Camaraderie in Québec, Canada

(This article was published in the June 2012 issue of Rider Magazine.) Story and photos by Scott A. Williams Heading north from the U.S. into the...

No-Crash Course: Yamaha Champions Riding School

I’ve got a confession to make. I crashed several test bikes during my first couple of years at Rider. Sure, I could B.S. you...

A Newfoundland Motorcycle Adventure

I had ridden 1,000 miles to catch the 11:30 a.m. ferry to Newfoundland. But I was late and lost and boarding closed in 10...

Muskoka by Motorcycle: Riding in Ontario, Canada

I have never owned a boat. That is not to say I don’t enjoy them. I learned to sail aboard catamarans and to water...

A Short History of Sidecars

Curious conveyances, sidecars. Few of us have ever ridden in one, fewer yet driven a rig. But there is a small, passionate number of...

Edelweiss Baja Motorcycle Tour | Review

story and photography by Rich Cox Mexico’s Baja California cape is 800 miles long, the fourth longest peninsula in the world. Known as La Frontera...

Essay Contest Winner Enjoys Edelweiss’ Montana Touring Center

story and photography by Greg Hohn As an inveterate lone wolf when it comes to motorcycling, I wasn’t sure a group tour was going to...

Experiencing Southern Italy from an Edelweiss Tour Center | Review

story and photography by Bill Stermer Calabria, the region located in the lower foot of the “boot” that is Italy, is a much more laid-back,...

Beach’s Classic Alpine Tour | Review

by Clement Salvadori photography by the author and Sue Salvadori It had been a long day over many glorious miles. Late in the afternoon half a...

Looping the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia

by Peter Starr photography by the author and Thom Tyre Forty years ago I lived in Vancouver and was a successful rock-and-roll radio DJ. Fresh from...

Canada to Argentina Motorcycle Tour

story and photography by John Wellburn Dear Rider magazine, On November 22, 2003, I left my hometown of Williams Lake, British Columbia, with no more than...

Motorcycle Camping 101

For some the idea of a night in the wilderness, or even at an established campground, is simply unthinkable. How do you survive without...

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