Motorcycle Travel Through the Rocky Mountains
Don Metz
October 8, 2012
The high mountain passes of the Rocky Mountains are an incomparable motorcycle touring experience, ringing with the legacy of tens of thousands of gold prospectors who fearlessly blazed trails across them in search of riches. Sunsets over the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains are often a spectacular... Read more »
Colorado Chasms: Riding the other Canyonlands
Kathleen Kemsley
June 4, 2012
(This Favorite Ride was published in the June 2012 issue of Rider Magazine.) Story and photos by Kathleen Kemsley Colorado is best known for its lofty peaks, and rightly so. Those reaching at least 14,000 feet in elevation, known as Fourteeners, number 53 in this not-flat state. A lesser-known side of... Read more »
High Adventure in Colorado and Utah
Steve Larsen
February 1, 2012
[This High Adventure in Colorado and Utah was originally published in the September 2011 issue of Rider magazine] Few regions in the United States have more low-traffic miles of wonderful twisty roads and stunning natural beauty than western Colorado and southern Utah. The goal this time is to link great... Read more »
Crossing Western Colorado on Old U.S. 6
Ken Bingenheimer
January 24, 2012
[This Crossing Western Colorado on Old U.S. 6 was originally published in the January 2012 issue of Rider magazine] I’ve eyed it longingly on countless trips on Interstate 70 across the Colorado mountains. The sparsely traveled two-lane winds its way alongside the interstate, at times close by, at... Read more »
U.S. and Canadian Rockies Motorcycle Tour
Jim Petersen
April 8, 2011
story and photography by Jim Petersen [this article about a U.S. and Canadian Rockies motorcycle tour, "Road to Wisdom," was originally published in the July 2008 issue of Rider] When Don Scott, my neighbor and riding buddy, mentioned he wanted to go on a long ride—nothing but blue highways, maybe... Read more »
Ancient Ways in the Southwest
Kathleen Kemsley
April 7, 2011
story and photography by Kathleen Kemsley The climate can be too hot and rainy in the summer, too cold and windy in the winter. But motorcycling conditions in the high desert during the spring and fall months are nearly perfect. A commitment-free week in September beckoned my husband and me to ride the... Read more »
Santa Fe Trail: History and drama from New Mexico to Kansas
Rider Contributor
April 6, 2011
story and photography by Kathleen Kemsley We planned to attend a regional sidecar club rally in September. There was just one drawback, we thought: The rally took place in eastern Kansas. Kansas? What is there to see in Kansas? Though I had never set foot in the state, I had heard plenty about how flat... Read more »
Riding Through Autumn Splendor in Colorado’s High Country
Frosty Wooldridge
April 6, 2011
by Frosty Wooldridge photography by Gary Hall Leaning into the curves, our bikes labored at the higher elevations. On our right, a gray, broken rock wall whizzed past just off our rear-view mirrors. With a lean to the left, the steaming vapors rising off Clear Creek proved the temperatures had dropped... Read more »
Colorado Motorcycle Rides: Cañon City, Monarch Pass and Beyond
Warren Renshaw
June 22, 2009
story and photography by Warren Renshaw [Colorado Motorcycle Rides: Cañon City, Monarch Pass and Beyond was originally published as a Favorite Ride in the August 2009 issue of Rider magazine] In the April 2005 issue of Rider magazine I vowed to return to Colorado as long as I was able. It has beauty... Read more »
Firstgear Motorcycle Ride in Utah and Colorado
Greg Drevenstedt
April 9, 2009
(This “Favorite Ride” was originally published in the April 2009 issue of Rider Magazine.” As a 15-year-old mountain biker living in Georgia, I dreamed of riding in two places: The slickrock trails of Moab, Utah, and the Rocky Mountain trails near Crested Butte, Colorado. Since those... Read more »
