Ted Simon Launches Revamped Website
Press Release
October 26, 2012
In 1973, Ted Simon left London for what became a four-year solo journey around the world. Then, in 2001, he did it again with the aim of discovering how the world had changed in the intervening 28 years. He visited more than 40 countries on each trip and covered a combined 123,000 miles. Now, 39 years... Read more »
Motorcycle Cannonball Run 2012
Andy Saunders
October 10, 2012
How about a 4,000-mile ride on the saddle of a 100-year-old motorcycle? In 16 days? With one rest day, when you can rebuild the bike? Sound like fun? Then you’d love the Motorcycle Cannonball Coast-to-Coast Endurance Run, which began at Motorcyclepedia in Newburgh, New York, and finished at Dudley... Read more »
Horizon Unlimited Achievable Dream DVD Series Review
Greg Drevenstedt
July 25, 2012
Motorcyclists tend to be dreamers, captivated by the desire to explore new places and have new experiences. Perhaps that’s because our two-wheeled machines, extensions of ourselves that glide through space and time with grace, power and promise, are more like magic carpets than just modes of transportation.... Read more »
Waiting for the Volcano: Motorcycle Travel in Ecuador
Dexter Ford
May 2, 2012
I felt stupid. Not a new experience, to be sure. But this time, even more than usual. I’d been invited to ride a motorcycle through Ecuador. Which sounded like a great idea. It did, however, raise some basic questions. Like what—and where—is Ecuador? I feel just a little smarter now. It took 10... Read more »
The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing (Book Review)
Rider Magazine
November 23, 2011
Writing about riding isn’t easy. Choosing and stringing together words to describe the visceral experiences and deeply felt passions of motorcycling, not to mention the essence of the mechanical contraptions that transport and transform the lives of men and women in profound ways, is difficult. I struggle... Read more »
Last-Chance Adventure on the Trans-Labrador Highway
Jeff McQueen
April 7, 2011
story and photography by Jeff McQueen Are you interested in an exciting dual-sport trip to a remote destination that isn’t 10,000 miles away? Do you like gravel roads, lots of saddle time and challenging riding? A ride on the Trans-Labrador Highway (TLH) will take you as far north as you can go on... Read more »
Great (Mis)Adventure: Six Countries and Garmisch BMW Motorrad Meeting
Kevin Ash
April 7, 2011
story and photography by Kevin Ash This was going to need some serious spicing up. You’d expect a weekend gathering of 30,000 motorcyclists in a single place to be a source of countless laughs, drunkenness, wild stories, mad antics and mayhem. But 30,000 BMW owners? That’s the annual International... Read more »
The Grand Motorcycle Tour: Preparing for a couple months on the road
Bill Stermer
November 17, 2009
(This article was published in the August 2006 issue of American Rider.) As we get older we think of retiring, of taking it easy, of finally enjoying the fruits of our labors. Or, in these economic times, perhaps we’ve been laid off and want to take a few months (with part of our nest egg) and see... Read more »
Emilio Scotto’s Epic Motorcycle Journey Around the World
Honda’s Red Rider magazine
August 17, 2004
Reprinted with permission from Honda’s Red Rider magazine People today often complain the age of adventure is dead, that there are no more frontiers left to explore. Emilio Scotto proved them wrong … by riding his Gold Wing (the Black Princess) 485,000 miles in 10 years, visiting 232 countries, islands,... Read more »
Riding a Supersport Around the World
Sjaak Lucassen
April 15, 2004
Editor’s note: English is Sjaak’s second language after Dutch. In editing his story, I tried to maintain his “colorful” personality without sacrificing clarity. “Why the heck an R1?! You do know you’re crazy?!” This is the reaction I get from people when they get their voice back, after... Read more »
