Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s iBook Designed to Help Increase Motorcyclist Awareness
Rider Magazine Staff
March 28, 2013
In its latest effort to reach current and prospective motorcyclists and all other roadway users, and to promote an overall safer traffic mix, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation has launched its newest iBook, “Intersection: Sharing the Road.” Available exclusively for iPads, the 32-page iBook costs... Read more »
Book Launch Nov. 10 to Benefit Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts
Press Release
November 6, 2012
Support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts and meet Rocker J. Geils, Luthier Jol Dantzig and Award-Winning Author of Rockin’ Garages Tom Cotter at Music Icon Billy Joel’s 20th Century Cycles in Oyster Bay, New York, on Saturday, November 10, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The 192-page hardcover book ROCKIN... Read more »
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: The Definitive Visual History (Book Review)
Greg Drevenstedt
October 2, 2012
When the ground-breaking “Art of the Motorcycle” exhibit opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, in 1998, I had the good fortune of attending—twice. At the time, I was living in Philadelphia, a two-hour ride to the south via the mind-numbing New Jersey Turnpike, and a diehard enthusiast... Read more »
Rider Book Review: Motorcycle Journeys Through North America by Dale Coyner
Reviewed by Clement Salvadori
May 1, 2012
WEBSITE EXCLUSIVE! Simply the creation of this book is impressive! Dale Coyner decided to take a look-see at nearly all of the United States, and a goodly part of Canada, and figure out where the best rides are. That is a lot of real estate to cover, and probably some five million miles of possible... Read more »
Motorcycle Haiku Contest!
Rider Magazine
December 7, 2011
OK, Grasshopper, this contest is easy! Or is it? Write a haiku about motorcycles. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that consists of just three lines – the first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables and the third line has 5 syllables. For example… See the shiny chrome So... Read more »
101 Road Tales
Press Release
December 6, 2011
There’s bound to be at least one good holiday-oriented story among 101 of Clement Salvadori‘s best Road Tales columns from Rider magazine. Rather than a detailed travel guide, 101 Road Tales ($24.95) is a guide to the enjoyment of motorcycle traveling, as told by our bon vivant Contributing... Read more »
Stayin’ Safe Book
Press Release
December 6, 2011
What better way to show your loved ones you care this holiday season than with the gift of Riding Really Well? Motorcycle safety legend Larry Grodsky‘s Stayin’ Safe–The Art and Science of Riding Really Well ($24.95) is a collection of his best columns from Rider magazine (from 1988... 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 »
Writers and Riders: Meeting Melissa Holbrook Pierson and John Ryan
Greg Drevenstedt
October 4, 2011
In his 1929 short story, Chains, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy hatched the idea of six degrees of separation, whereby every person on earth could be connected to every other person on earth through a “friend of a friend” chain with six or fewer links. Nearly seven decades later, in 1997, American... Read more »
