Great Roads: South Dakota
Alan Paulsen
May 3, 2013
The following is an excerpt from the article Connecting the Dakotas: The Long Way Around North and South, originally printed in the August 2009 issue. As a motorcyclist who enjoys vacant, isolated roads, I stared longingly at the Dakotas on my National Geographic wall map while planning my next excursion.... Read more »
Riding The Santa Fe Trail: A Journey Back in Time From Missouri to New Mexico
Bob Jacobs
April 2, 2013
In 1821, everything south of the Arkansas River was Mexico. Newly free from Spain, the Mexican government took new resources north to the provincial capital of Santa Fe and welcomed trade with America—we just had to get there. For centuries, Indian tribes like the Pawnee, Cheyenne and Comanche and... Read more »
South Dakota Escape
Mike Koplen
March 6, 2013
As a young boy, my stamp collection included a green 1952 three-cent commemorative of Mt. Rushmore. The four presidential faces gazing wisely across America from the top of a mountain were mesmerizing, almost mystical in their patriotic magnificence. In my child’s imagination, they embodied the historical... Read more »
Touring the Forgotten Iron Range in Wisconsin and Michigan
Gary Ilminen
September 6, 2012
Late in the 19th century, in Wisconsin’s far north and on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, above ground thousands of men hacked out a living logging the state’s vast hardwood forests. At the same time, thousands of feet below the surface, hard rock miners blasted and hammered out millions of tons of... Read more »
Motorcycle Travel in Iowa: Taking The Old Lincoln Highway Across The Hawkeye State
Clement Salvadori
July 24, 2012
Story and Photos By Clement Salvadori I was a little concerned about riding through Iowa in June of 2011. Nothing to do with bandits, earthquakes or extra-terrestrial beings, just two big rivers. That spring, middle America was in full flood, with huge amounts of snow melting and heavy rains, and I was... Read more »
The Long Road to Indy, A Scenic Sport-Touring Ride to the MotoGP
Lance Oliver
June 6, 2012
(This Long Road to Indy feature was published in the June 2012 issue of Rider magazine.) Imagine a multi-state Main Street for Motorcycling, a cross-country route made just for riding. Miles of sinuous asphalt draped over rolling hills, winding past tumbledown barns with faded Mail Pouch tobacco ads,... Read more »
A Tale of Two Lakes: Riding the Circle Tour
Stacy V. Bearse
May 1, 2012
I’m a careful planner, but the key to this journey was decided by the flip of a coin. Heads, clockwise, tails, counterclockwise. It was tails, so my journey would take me up the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, across the top of Lake Superior, and back home along Lake Michigan’s western shore. My... Read more »
A Western Montana Motorcycle Ride to Wisdom, Opportunity and Treasure
Kathleen Kemsley
August 12, 2011
[This Western Montana Motorcycle Ride was originally published as a Favorite Ride in the July 2011 issue of Rider] story and photography by Kathleen Kemsley Three wishes I made, three places I sought on a warm and breezy summer day in western Montana. Riding south through the Bitterroot Valley, my red... Read more »
Wisconsin Motorcycle Rides: Touring the Lower Wisconsin Riverway
Rider Contributor
July 19, 2011
story and photography by Gary Ilminen [This Favorite Ride was originally published in the December 2010 issue of Rider magazine] State Highway 60 is the centerline of the lower Wisconsin Riverway tour, clinging to the north bank of the meandering river. From Sauk City to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin,... Read more »
A Three-State Motorcycle Ride Through Montana, Idaho and Washington
Rider Contributor
July 19, 2011
by Steve Larsen, photography by Bob Meador [This Motorcycle Ride Through Montana, Idaho and Washington was originally published in the November 2010 issue of Rider magazine] BMWs dominated this run, but there were also two Suzuki V-Stroms and an H-D Ultra Classic. The ride begins with members of the... Read more »
