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Motorcycle Tours - Kancamagus Highway, New Hampshire
Cranking On The Kanc more |
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2006 Motorcycle Tours - Roan Mountain
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Motorcycle Touring - Vermont's Green Mountains
Boisterous ferns wagged at my bike's tires while white pines swayed drunkenly in the breeze above. The entire roadside was rife with the... more |
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Initial Impressions: 2006 Harley-Davidson FLHXI Street Glide Motorcycle
New for 2006, the FLHX Street Glide, a lower, sleeker version of Harley-Davidson's full-dress touring motorcycle, provides some surprises. more |
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The Forgotten Road: Highway 395
Apparently most Americans recall Route 66 fondly, but I'm not one of them. I was a Route 66 baby. With divorced parents living in Chicago... more |
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America or Bust: Connecticut to Tennessee
Memorial Day Weekend, 1970: It's a rainy Friday morning. My well-used motorcycle, a 1965 Triumph Bonneville, is parked on a quiet side... more |
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America Or Bust: Connecticut To Tennessee
A motorcycle trip to the from New England to the Honda Hoot recalls a ride of four decades ago on another Triumph Bonneville. From the... more |
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Roads of Dreams: Riding North Carolina
The boiled peanuts were surprisingly tasty, given their uncanny resemblance to otter scat. As for the sickly sweet peach cider with which I... more |
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Snow to Sand: Touring Southern New Mexico
Five-foot-high ultra-white drifts looming on either side of a crude winding path, a blanket of glistening, rolling silence stretching to... more |
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A Ride to Nowhere
"I'd rather ride into the middle of nowhere than pose in front of any Starbucks on the planet." So said my buddy Helvetia Forester in his... more |
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Initial Impressions: 2006 Harley-Davidson FLHXI Street Glide
I like Harley's Touring machines. They are comfortable, have good range, and handle more responsively than the average dresser when the... more |
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Riding the Historic Columbia River Highway
Sometimes a road is more than just a road, more than an amalgamation of gravel, tar and asphalt over which you spin off countless miles. A... more |
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Religion of the Ride: Riding Minnesota's Mississippi
At the wedding reception of a co-worker held in the southern Minnesota tourist town of Lanesboro, fellow Wisconsin native Tim Leary and I... more |
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Destination: Two Wheels Only Motorcycle Resort
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Cool Ride! Crotona Midnight Run, Midwinter, Uh, Fun?
The inaugural Crotona Midnight Run took place on New Year's Eve, 1911. It's taken place every year since, except for a hiatus during the... more |
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Fall Colors in New England
Walnut trees turning, yellow as the dawn. Maple sugar being pulled down strong. Frost shuns the pumpkin's orange glow. Cornstalks wilting... more |
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Honda's 25th Anniversary Homecoming
Honda America Manufacturing celebrates 25 years of making motorcycles in America. more |
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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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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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