By the Helping Hand of the Motorcycle Community: Riding in the extremes
By Zee Traveler Even though it was Texas, December was still a cold month when I took a ride down to Big Bend National Park. The trip from California was going pretty smoothly until the morning before I got to Big Bend. From out of nowhere, my bike developed a front end wobble at higher …
How to prepare for a long distance intense motorcycle ride
By Wamuyu Kariuki A quick glance at the traffic update on your local platform and you can almost tell how long it will take you to get to the office or that meeting place with that friend. These estimates are way easier when riding a motorcycle than when driving. A motorcycle saves time and it’s …
Riding After A Break: Pushing Boundaries
by Zee Traveler There’s plenty of things that can come between us and our motorcycles; family obligations, bad weather, injuries, a heavy workload. That time off of our machines is prone to causing anxiety and apprehension about getting on again. What if you forgot how to ride? What if you drop it because you’re out …
The Road of Bones
by Mide Emans The Road of Bones is the stretch of road that runs from Magadan to Yakutsk. In 2008 the route was changed to go farther north between Kadykchan to Kyubeme, through Ust Nera. This road, the M56, is now a maintained gravel road, with small stretches of tarmac. The old road through Tomtor …
Pushing Boundaries: Getting Back on the Bike
By Zee Traveler My first wreck happened when I was 23 years old, in 2015. I was on a beautiful Victory Kingpin, going from my house to see a friend less than two miles away. Right after an intersection, a Ford F250 pickup truck tried to cross all four lanes of traffic while blind to …
Moto Classes
By Mycah Miller I THINK RIDING MOTORCYCLES MUST BE ONE OF THE GREAT LOVES OF MY LIFE. RIDING TAKES MENTAL FOCUS, INVOLVES PHYSICAL STRAIN, AND HAS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES IF WE SLIP UP, BUT WE TRADE THIS FOR THE ABILITY TO FLY FOR A FEW MINUTES (or hours, depending on your riding style). Still, anyone …
Pushing Boundaries: Long Distance Riding
By Zee Traveler When I ask this question, I receive any number of answers ranging from a few hours to all day, 200 miles to 1,000 miles. Most commonly I hear a couple hundred miles followed by admiration, or crazy looks, for what I’ve done in my riding career. Long distance riding is something just …