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California Motorcycle Rides

The Game Plan (Or Lack Thereof)

Since first hearing about it I’ve wanted to visit the Husky Memorial, a “sacred site for desert riders” in the Mojave Desert. There’s a...

Riding Among Giants, A 2011 Kawasaki Concours 14 ABS Tour Test

Our motivations differed, but our destination was the same. Having fallen under the spell of majestic redwoods several years ago at Muir Woods National...

Central California’s Morro Bay Loop Favorite Ride

One of my favorite rides includes a road loaded with demanding curves and fantastic Pacific Ocean views, a road through peaceful and solitary farmland,...

From Hollywood to Malibu Through a Star-Studded Landscape

story and photography by Steven W. Ross In 1980 British artist David Hockney produced the painting “Mulholland Drive—The Road to the Studio.” The painting is...

Southern California Motorcycle Rides: Escape to Arizona

photography by Chris Wykoff Living in the lower left corner of California has good points for motorcyclists. Our moderate weather allows a year-long riding season....

Great Basin Motorcycle Ride: Nevada, Oregon and California

Story by Denis Rouse; Photography by Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli Quick, you old experienced touring rider out there, arise and identify the largest physical feature of...

Western States Adventure: Rugged Southwest

story and photography by Jonathan C. Beck If there’s one constant in adventure touring on a motorcycle, it would be to expect the unexpected. For...

California Sport-Touring Loops on the Kawasaki Concours 14

story and photography by Clement Salvadori The road unrolls rapidly before me, the endless ribbon of two-lane blacktop smoothing out the hills and curves, disappearing...

Northern California Fantasy

by Steve Larsen photography by “Seattle Bob” Meador The stunning quality and diversity of Northern California roads are legendary. But is it possible to stitch the...

California’s Salinas River

photography by the author, Larry Kahn and Bob Reichenberg Rivers are good; if there is one commodity more important than oil, it is water. The...

California Motorcycle Rides: 250 Miles Through Kern County

story and photography by Clement Salvadori A new motorcycle sits in the garage, and I want to take a short motorcycle ride through Kern County...

Southern California Motorcycle Touring: The Tehachapi Loop

story and photography by Olaf Wolff During the past four decades I’ve learned plenty from riding motorcycles. I’ve come to value the power of patience,...

California Motorcycle Touring: Reno to Laughlin

story and photography by Mark Travis Westbound Interstate 80 carried us along the Truckee River from Reno to the Donner Summit, where we looked down...

California Motorcycle Rides: The Ash Creek Wildlife Area

story and photography by Denis Rouse It’s the third week of January here at home on the high plains of northeast California, and I’m actually...

Motorcycle Touring Lake Tahoe: All About the Lake on the Border

Story and photography by Olaf Wolff During the record-breaking heat spell of 2006, when the days were too fiercely humid and miserable for anything other...

California Motorcycle Rides: The Medicine Lake Loop

From my living room here in Big Valley I can see splayed across the northwestern horizon the seemingly recumbent silhouette of a broad mountain...

Remembering 1947 Hollister

(This article was published in the August 2006 issue of American Rider.) Fifty-three years after Brando’s wild ride, we went looking for Johnny. You know,...

Motorcycle Riding in Death Valley

You want shock and awe? I was shocked and awed, riding the biggest production V-twin made along a winding road that was dropping thousands...

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