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Honda's 25th Anniversary Homecoming Celebration
Honda first started building motorcycles in America back in the 1970s, and so at the end of July 2004, Honda America Manufacturing... more |
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Riding Logan County, West Virginia in Search of Steak and Direction
Quests play a pivotal role in travel. Whether traveling to find something or discovering a search that develops as I travel, I always seem... more |
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Sturgis: Boycott or Not? Readers Speak Up
Regular Updates In the August 2004 issue of Motorcycle Cruiser, the three editors offered differing views on what the motorcycling... more |
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Finding the Florida Keys by Motorcycle
There is no other road in America like Florida's Overseas Highway. The Keys, a 120-mile-long island chain, are bridged together like jewels... more |
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The Arid Journey: Riding America's Southwest
Motorcycling is about the trip, not the destination. I still find it amazing how many people (including spouses) do not understand this... more |
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Cavorting on Nova Scotia's Cabot Trail
Remember Sebastian Cabot, the bearded and erudite actor who played Mr. French, the butler, in the 1966-'71 series Family Affair? I was a... more |
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Riding into History on the Columbia River
Albert C. Hayes was born in October 1888, in Austin, Minnesota. He was my first cousin twice removed, a member of the family so distant... more |
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Destination: Death Valley
My obsession with Death Valley began during a 28-day Outward Bound Excursion in 1980, which was intended more as a punishment than a... more |
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Americade: June's Rally for Riders
When you think of upstate New York it's easy to envision a splendorous escape. The Adirondacks come to mind. The misty mountains and... more |
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Sturgis: The Good, Bad & Ugly
I'm not a biker. I don't have any tattoos. I've been to Americade but not Laconia. I haven't been in a fistfight since sixth grade and I... more |
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Riding the Candadian Rockies
Ever forget your place on the planet? Get a little big for reality's britches? Well, cosmic salvation doesn't always entail a pilgrimage to... more |
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Solvang, California: The Road Less Traveled
For our February 2001 examination of the relevance of motorcycle size to eternal happiness (see Size Matters, we spent a few days in and... more |
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Alaska for the Weekend
Modest by today's displacement standards, my motorcycle's 652cc single-cylinder engine loped easily along in fifth gear during the... more |
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Stonehenge: Ride of the Valkyries
Saturday, June 21: The Summer Solstice. The first day of summer and a typical Oregon June day: rainy. Ordinarily the inclement weather... more |
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Once Around the Lake
Lake Michigan was an unlikely destination for me, but after listening to a group of motorcycle riders straight from the Upper Peninsula... more |
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A Ghost Hunt in Southern Arizona
It was all over before I got there...or so they say. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, the Clanton Gang and Big Nose Kate had all left the stage.... more |
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Georgia Motion: Riding North Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest
On the surface, Georgia appears as a patchwork of determined modernization and sleepy-eyed tradition. The ancient peach orchards contend... more |
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Lessons from the Road
I went for a little motorcycle ride this past August on my 1996 BMW R1100GS. This ride, to each of the four geographic corners of the... more |
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St. George to CycleFest: Our Southwest Readers Ride
If you're scouting for a location at which to stage a motorcycle event, the Rocky Mountain State's hard to beat -- Colorado's snowcapped... more |
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Riding California's Route 1 North of San Francisco
Even if you've never been west of Waco, you've been touched by the splendor of the California coast. Like the indelible images of the... more |
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An Aero Escape: California to Tennesse and Back
It was an odd motorcycle choice for a cross-country ride, especially when you consider that my options included both Valkyrie and Ace... more |
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Route 7 to Hot Springs, Arkansas
What voluptuous set of curves will be forever associated with President Bill Clinton? Forget Monica Lewinski. We're talking about the... more |
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The Magic Bag: On-the-Road Motorcycle Necessities
After a recent multi-motorcycle comparison road test, a rider who had never gone along with us before commented, "You should tell people... more |
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Beartooth Pass: Jamie's Favorite Road
Whenever I'm asked what my all-time favorite road is I blurt, without hesitation, "Beartooth Pass from Red Lodge, Montana to Cody,... more |
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Slow Dancing on the Blue Ridge Parkway
It doesn't get much better than this. There just isn't a road as smoothly paved and beautifully shouldered as the Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP).... more |
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