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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...

Top 5 Motorcycle Roads in West Virginia

Visitors to Rider’s Touring page regularly search for rides in West Virginia, and it’s easy to see why. Known as the Mountain State and...

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...

Southern Exposure: A Tennessee and Kentucky Motorcycle Ride

When a family friend decided to celebrate a milestone birthday in Nashville, our interest was piqued. Being big music fans and suckers for seeing...

Asphalt Heaven: Riding West Virginia Backroads

What I like most about motorcycles is that they lean, a trait I describe to nonriders as “dancing with a machine.” A motorcyclist can...

Small Town Tennessee Motorcycle Loop | Favorite Ride

These days, I’ve become so enthralled by all the great motorcycle roads around the world and on my bucket list that I forget about...

Kentucky Motorcycle Ride: Exploring Mammoth Cave and Bowling Green

It’s funny how sometimes the best parts of a motorcycle trip have nothing to do with the destination or even the motorcycle. One such...

Florida Motorcycle Ride on Scenic State Road 13 | Favorite Ride

I should warn you: This Florida motorcycle ride doesn’t include challenging hairpin curves or drastic changes in elevation. The Sunshine State has a well-earned...

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...

Along the Midland Trail: A West Virginia Motorcycle Trip

Inspiration for a motorcycle trip can come from many avenues – perhaps by word of mouth about legendary riding destinations like the Tail of...

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...

Favorite Ride: Seneca Rocks, West Virginia

It’s not until we exit Interstate 81, run through some gears on U.S. Route 48, and catch a whiff of dew-covered fields that I...

Favorite Ride: Bridges of Charleston County

Charleston, South Carolina, is a true Southern belle. She turns 352 years old this year and has quite a past. In America’s early days,...

The Long Ride

The room is dirt cheap and smells it. I've been on the road for five weeks now, mostly camping to save money, and as...

Muriel’s First Ride

She's taking her first ride on a motorcycle. Posthumously, as it turns out, but my Aunt Muriel is along for the ride, her ashes...

Riding the Georgia Triangle

Formed roughly 480 million years ago, the Appalachians are a chain of mountains that stretch from Newfoundland, Canada, down to central Alabama. Eons of...

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...

Favorite Ride: July 4th on Florida’s First Coast

The salt in the air greeted me as I pulled up to the beach for some “Here Comes the Sun” action on my Moto...

List of U.S. Motorcycle Tour Operators 2020

With international travel in 2020 looking less certain by the week (and possibly risky, not just health-wise but also with the possibility of becoming...

Land of Swamp and Sand: The ‘Other’ South Carolina Destination

Each year millions of tourists visit Myrtle Beach or Charleston, South Carolina, searching for beaches, nightlife, shopping and endless feasts of seafood. However, far...

Riding ‘Shine Country: The Tail of the Dragon and North Carolina’s Moonshiner 28

As I leaned into the corner, a stopped garbage truck appeared just ahead, hugging the stone wall on the right closely enough that I could...

17th Annual Blue Ridge Gathering

The Blue Ridge Gathering is an annual meeting of sport-touring riders in western North Carolina, one of the best regions in the U.S. for...

One Ride, 47 National Parks

Forty-seven national parks, 17,335 miles, 67 days, three flat tires, two forest fires, three boat rides, temps ranging from 31 degrees and sleet to...

Stayin’ Safe: Riding Like Heinz

Improving slow-speed stability can be fun. No, really. More than any other skill, riders tell me they wish they had better low-speed control. And no...

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....

Riding West Virginia’s Country Roads

With the weather calling for highs in the mid-70s in West Virginia in mid-November, I knew I had to take one last ride up...

Best Dam Ride in the South: The TVA Dams of the Upper Tennessee River

Looking down on the raging torrent thundering out of the 34-foot-diameter emergency spillway below Fontana Dam, you can almost feel the ground shake beneath...

Favorite Ride: Classic Roadways of the Smoky Mountains

This morning I’m on my way to the Great Smoky Mountains to revisit three gems of the Southeast’s motorcycle-friendly roadways: the Foothills Parkway, Deals...

Favorite Ride: Swamp People and Hot Sauce

I have lived in southern Louisiana my whole life, and for this sport-touring rider, the weather from late October through April is pretty hard...

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