June 2019

The Next Project
Resurrecting a vintage bike is not for the faint of heart. Last year I acquired a 1980 Kawasaki KZ550A. It belonged to a friend who has a rather large collection of motorcycles. Although we’d...
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Two-Wheel Celebration
From partyers to racers, it takes all kinds of people to make Bike Week the festival that it is. The people who annually make the trek to Daytona Beach to cruise the streets call it Bike Week, while...
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Texas Variety
Exploring the Lone Star State Big hats. Big boots. Big oil. Big guns. Perhaps more than any other state, Texas has its clichéd accretions. I had been here before, but not to explore. This time, as I...
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The Classic Mistake
How the author became his own risk manager and started riding again. This is a story about my motorcycling journey: how I started, why I left and how I was able to come back to ride with greater joy...
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Angling for Some Backcountry Adventure
What better way to spend 13 days off work than to tackle B.C.’s backcountry with your adventure bike and a fishing rod I leave central Vancouver Island mid-August on my 2013 KTM 990 Adventure Baja,...
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Milwaukee’s Radical Power Cruiser
It may not fall into the touring or even daily rider category, but it definitely fits nicely into the segment of head-turner. When the first Harley-Davidson Softail hit showrooms in 1984, I was...
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Class-Leading Performance
The big news here isn’t as much about the bikes as it is about the upgraded engine Aah … sunny, balmy Palm Springs, California. We’re here for a couple of days to ride the 2019 BMW R1250GS and...
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