When the motorcycle press announced that MotoAmerica was going to have an exhibition race for performance baggers, most race fans had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t April Fool’s Day. Surprisingly, it not only turned out to be true, but it had been in the...
Becky Goebel tells her first-hand experience filming an episode of RIDE with Norman Reedus Photo credit for all images: Antonio Franco/AMC Norman Reedus and I had been following each other on social media for a couple years. We had a ton of mutual friends and I knew...
A Conversation with Megan Margeson by Becky Goebel @actuallyitsaxel If you’ve never seen a young lady crush a ton of miles on a chopper, well, you’re about to. A few days ago, Megan Margeson was featured on the Harley Davidson Instagram page with her Harley Davidson...
Biker rallies build their own sort of culture the longer they go on. Names like Sturgis, Daytona, Hollister, and Laconia evoke an immediate reaction from motorcyclists “in the know.” But the “majors” can sometimes be crowded and have a bloated, over-promoted vibe. Of...
Women’s Sportbike Rally (WSR), the only annual female-focused sportbike road rally in the world, announced big changes as well as the 2020 schedule today. In celebration of the growing number of women riders in North America and the steady growth of attendees over the...
The answer to all of life’s mysteries is, “motorcycle.” Well, it is if you’re Bob Marshall. And that’s because the author of the book American Road Runner has had motorcycles as a central piece of his life since childhood. His father had a custom chopper, and as a...
Motorcycle accidents are an unfortunate aspect of being on two wheels. The hope is that you never go down and if you do, you don’t experience any injuries. The reality is that many riders do. While riders can’t control every aspect of the things they encounter on the...
People don’t usually think of motorcycles when they think of Tombstone. The southern Arizona town is famous (or infamous) for the OK Corral, the Earp brothers, and Big Nosed Kate’s saloon. And while the town usually caters to tourists in search of Boot Hill, March...
What many locals call, “The Swap Meet,” is far from just a swap meet. The Colorado Motorcycle Expo is, without question, one of the largest motorcycling events in the Four Corners states, and the largest in the state of Colorado. Never heard of it? Well, picture a...
The One Motorcycle Show started out in close-in NE Portland eleven years ago with a simple idea at heart of the whole event– if you could have one motorcycle for the rest of your life, what would it be? Well, all these years later the party has grown many times...