Michigan Motorcycle Rides: The Upper Peninsula
Teresa Lasher
February 13, 2008
by Teresa Lasher, photography by Steve Lasher [Michigan Motorcycle Rides: The Upper Peninsula was originally published as a Favorite Ride in the February 2008 issue of Rider magazine] For those of you who always pilot a motorcycle, you may think you know all there is to know about motorcycle riding.... Read more »
Montana Motorcycle Rides: Exploring the Northwestern Corner
Beverly Kennell
September 18, 2007
[Montana Motorcycle Rides: Exploring the Northwestern Corner was originally published as a Favorite Ride in the August 2007 issue of Rider magazine] Our 100th Anniversary Harley Electra Glide Ultra Classic was heavily packed and ready for three weeks of road travel, rain or shine. For the past nine years... Read more »
Northeast Getaway: Motorcycling Pennsylvania’s Route 6
Cindy Ross
May 25, 2007
As I negotiate the curves directly outside Milford on Pennsylvania’s Route 6, the thought suddenly occurs to me that I am climbing something big. I steer my motorcycle left on the 35-mph curves, then right as I snake along the smooth-as-glass blacktop road. I’m not prepared for the feast that lies... Read more »
South Carolina Motorcycle Rides: Touring Low Country Plantations
David Owens
March 5, 2007
Story and photography by David Owens [South Carolina Motorcycle Rides: Touring Low Country was originally published as a Favorite Ride in the March 2007 issue of Rider magazine] As the sun rises over the South Carolina coast, we are eager to hit the road. Our ride will take us past historic Low Country... Read more »
California Motorcycle Rides: The Medicine Lake Loop
Denis Rouse
January 25, 2007
[California Motorcycle Rides: The Medicine Lake Loop was originally published in the January 2007 issue of Rider magazine] From my living room here in Big Valley I can see splayed across the northwestern horizon the seemingly recumbent silhouette of a broad mountain range the National Park Service refers... Read more »
Alabama Motorcycle Roads: Little River Canyon National Preserve
Warren Renshaw
January 4, 2007
[Alabama Motorcycle Roads: Little River Canyon National Preserve was originally published as a Favorite Ride in the November 2006 issue of Rider magazine] Although I live in Sweet Home Alabama, my home state is not known for such sweet motorcycling roads, if a sweet road is defined as a curvy one. One... Read more »
Vermont Motorcycle Rides: Over the Green Mountains
Chuck T. Farnan
January 4, 2007
Story and photography by R.W. Ballou [Vermont Motorcycle Rides: Over the Green Mountains was originally published as a Favorite Ride in the March 2005 issue of Rider magazine] I live in the southeast corner of Vermont, where the hills are steep, the valleys are narrow and the architecture in the villages... Read more »
Questing The Grand Canyon
Rider Magazine
July 18, 2006
Certainly one worth the pilgrimage is a place so vast and breathless it extends beyond any sense of human scope. If we ever wondered why we ride, arriving at the Grand Canyon offers an epiphany. It is a defining moment that distinguishes the risk and ruggedness of our lifestyle. I think you have to pity... Read more »
Following the Great River Road in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois
Larry Betts
October 15, 2003
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 geographic area in northeast Iowa, southwest Wisconsin and northwestern Illinois. This area, known as the Paleozoic Plateau or Driftless Area,... Read more »
Motorcycle Travel in the Fingerlakes High Roads of New York
STEVEN GREINER
June 15, 2003
I live in what are called the Bristol Mountains in the heart of the Fingerlakes Region of New York state, beginning some 30 miles southeast of Rochester. These very old mountains, part of the Appalachian chain, offer scenic views and interesting destinations such as wineries, restaurants and B&Bs,... Read more »
