Crisscrossing the Lower Colorado River–Hoover Dam to the Oxbow Bridge
Clement Salvadori
February 4, 2013
For more than 35 years, a contingent of aging Yuppies that includes Yours Truly has been convening at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley in late winter. Now, after three nights of carousing, retelling oft-told tales and ignoring realities, the DV weekend was over. I cranked up the Honda Gold Wing GL1800... Read more »
Great Basin Motorcycle Ride: Nevada, Oregon and California
Denis Rouse
April 8, 2011
Story by Denis Rouse; Photography by Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli [This Great Basin Motorcycle Ride was originally published in the May 2008 issue of Rider] Quick, you old experienced touring rider out there, arise and identify the largest physical feature of the American West. The Rocky Mountains you... Read more »
Western States Adventure: Rugged Southwest
Jonathan C. Beck
April 7, 2011
story and photography by Jonathan C. Beck If there’s one constant in adventure touring on a motorcycle, it would be to expect the unexpected. For this Southern California rider and his three East Coast friends, our week-long Western states adventure was, if anything, defined by the unexpected. I got... Read more »
Motorcycle Riding in Death Valley
Clement Salvadori
May 6, 2005
You want shock and awe? I was shocked and awed, riding the biggest production V-twin made along a winding road that was dropping thousands of feet from the Inyo Mountains down into Panamint Valley, hustling this 800-pounder along nice new asphalt, occasionally scraping the boards on a turn, heating up... Read more »
Motorcycle Travel in Nevada: The Great Basin
Denis Rouse
January 10, 2003
Oh give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above, don’t fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love, don’t fence me in. Cole Porter Oh yes, but not on a slow nag. I’ll take that new Honda, the silver one with that gorgeous 103-horsepower flat-six engine that... Read more »
