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Michigan Motorcycle Touring: “Tunnel of Trees” Road

story and photography by Dan Soults Our favorite Michigan ride is even more fun during Indian summer because of the gorgeous fall colors. We stop...

Indiana Motorcycle Touring: Hoosier National Forest

story and photography by Mitchell Steckler I awoke to a beautiful summer morning, a motorcyclist’s dream: blue sky, 82 degrees and a weekend of freedom....

Best of Ohio Motorcycle Rides

Most people don’t realize that Ohio motorcycle rides offer some of the most scenic and exciting motorcycle routes in the country. I made this...

Missouri Motorcycle Rides: From St. Louis to Frankenstein

The crack of the bat and the smell of yeast are never far away in St. Louis, a vibrant city-kingdom of baseball and beer....

Iowa Motorcycle Rides: Discovering America’s Heartland

story and photography by Susan Benton Although Iowa probably isn’t on your short list of places to ride, it has a prairie beauty all its...

Michigan Motorcycle Rides: The Upper Peninsula

by Teresa Lasher, photography by Steve Lasher For those of you who always pilot a motorcycle, you may think you know all there is to...

Montana Motorcycle Rides: Exploring the Northwestern Corner

Our 100th Anniversary Harley Electra Glide Ultra Classic was heavily packed and ready for three weeks of road travel, rain or shine. For the...

Wisconsin's Best Motorcycle Roads: The Rustic Roads Motorcycle Tour

Story and photography by M. Cooper Larson Most of us don't need a reason to go riding-especially when the riding involves some of the most...

Day-Tripping on the Lincoln Highway in Iowa

Early in the last century, one highway paved the way—literally and figuratively—for the roads we enjoy today. More patchwork quilt than a continuous ribbon,...

Riding the Heart and Soul of Montana

A whole lot of nothing. That’s what we expected to see on our journey across eastern Montana—flat and drear, sagebrush and maybe the occasional...

Wisconsin Motorcycle Tour | An Off-Season Rumble Through Harley-Davidson Country

Oh, what I don’t know about this Harley-Davidson! Like, um, where’s the toolkit on this thing? There isn’t one? Oh. Well maybe this guy...

A Solo Motorcycle Ride to Sturgis, South Dakota

photography by Mark Langello and Buzz Buzzelli I was leaving tomorrow morning and my clothes were strewn all over the bed, I had a load...

Roaming Wyoming: Riding With the Pioneers

We had experienced a little of Wyoming by riding through it on our way to and from Sturgis, South Dakota, one summer. We were...

The Four-Stroke Singles National Owners Club Rally in Wyoming

Motorcycle celebrations take many shapes and forms. Own a Harley-Davidson in 2003 and you could have rallied in Milwaukee to celebrate 100 years of...

Following the Great River Road in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois

Thousands of years ago the glaciers swept across the upper Midwest like a giant bulldozer, flattening everything in their path. Fortunately they missed a small...

Ride North Dakota! Open Spaces Open the Mind

The phrase “Ride North Dakota” doesn’t usually bring a motorcyclist’s blood to a boil. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t any good roads in...

Riding on Water in the Michigan U.P.

(This article Bridge and Ferry: Riding on Water in the Michigan U.P. was published in the August 2003 issue of Rider magazine.) I felt the...

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