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DVD Review: The Ride: Alaska to Patagonia

Oh, the perils of technology. Way back in April, the folks at GlobeBusters, a U.K.-based motorcycle tour company, sent me a copy of The Ride: Alaska...

DVD Review: Hard Miles: The True Story of the 2007 Iron Butt Rally

It can’t have been easy to make a video of an event like the Iron Butt Rally, which has been described as an 11-day, 11,000-mile,...

DVD Review: Twist of the Wrist II

One of my first assignments for Rider was to attend and review the California Superbike School. My palms got sweaty and my chest tightened at the...

Book review: Harley-Davidson Everything you Need to Know

Like “new and improved,” the phrase “everything you need to know” packs a lot of implications. Aside from promising to deliver information that is...

Motorsports Films Review

NEED FOR SPEED. If you’re hooked on watching motorsports on TV, then here’s your pusher. Motorsportsfilms.com features a comprehensive collection of the best motorcycle...

Around the World the Hard Way – Mondo Enduro DVD Review

Ready for your big adventure?  Have you seen enough of Ewan and Charlie going the Long Way here or there that you want to...

Book Review: The American Motorcycle Girls 1900-1950

If you've ever had the pleasure of experiencing a truly well-archived scrapbook, you know what a moving experience it can be. Leafing through generations...

Motorcycle Book Review: Riding in the Zone

Review by Andy Saunders What do motorcyclists want? It’s a question answered many times, never satisfactorily, until now. What motorcycle riders want is to get...

Book Review: The Road Gets Better from Here

Reassembling his Kawasaki KLR650 on the tarmac of the airport at Magadan, Russia, after flying it in on the mail plane from Vladivostok, Australian...

Book Review: Flat Out! The Rollie Free Story and World’s Fastest Motorcycle

These are two very different books about the same subject, with the events taking place more than half a century apart. In Flat Out!...

Book Review: Motorcycle Journeys Through the Alps & Beyond, Fourth Edition

If you are going to the Alps, bring this book, whether you are taking a group tour or wandering on your own. There may...

Dual Sport Riding Techniques DVD Review

The off-road craze that began when Yamaha sold the first DT-1 Enduro in 1968 shows no signs of abating, but who would have guessed...

Book Review: Norton Commando by Mick Duckworth

Review by Andy Saunders The Norton name never seems to die. Just when you think it’s gone, someone comes along and resurrects the marque again....

Book Review: Dreaming of Jupiter by Ted Simon

This book, Dreaming of Jupiter, can be enjoyed on several levels. As a travelogue of a two-and-a-half-year trip around the world; as the viewpoint...

Book Review: Breaking the Limit

Here is the situation: You’re a 31-year-old woman living in New Jersey, you’ve just finished your Master’s degree, your new job doesn’t start for...

Book Review: McQueen’s Machines

Review by Andy Saunders Twenty-eight years after the movie actor’s and part-time racer’s death from cancer, Steve McQueen’s motoring legacy lives on. Perhaps this quote...

Ride Like a Pro V Motorcycle DVD Review

When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I was a dedicated fan of the TV show CHiPs. California was portrayed as the land of...

Book Review: The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Travel

Review by Andy Saunders There are few frontiers left to blaze on two wheels, but it's still just as easy to get into trouble. Dale...

Book Review: Motorcycle Suspension Technology in Detail (3rd edition)

By Joe Michaud So says the intro by Werner "Mini" Koch and Benny Wilbers in their collaborative book, Motorcycle Suspension Technology in Detail. Suspension tuning has...

Book Review: The Scooter Bible

The Scooter Bible, compiled by brothers Michael and Eric Dregni, is a superbly readable, and viewable, tome on the history of motorscooters. Most...

Book Review: BMW R90S

Review by Andy Saunders Some motorcycles are instant icons: Triumph's 1937 Speed Twin, Kawasaki's 1973 Z1, Ducati's 1993 916, and, of course, BMW's mid-'70S R90S....

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