The Bike Life
Going the Distance
I brought some motorcyclist friends together socially recently, by which I mean some of these guys had never met each other before. I don’t know that many people are out as actively meeting other riders as I am in the course of writing ...
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The Bike Life
LEDs for Your Ride
How do you get your motorcycle to look just a bit cooler? OK, a lot cooler? One increasingly popular option is adding LED lighting. Two members of the OFMC took the plunge this year. Once Johnathon caught up with us in Chama, NM, and ...
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Off Road
Adventure Riding the Backcountry
By the standard of “It's not an adventure until someone says, ‘WTF are we doing here?’" Paul Guillien and his riding companion were pretty certain they were having an adventure coming down from Reservation Ridge. “Two of us ...
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The Bike Life
Would You Rent Your Ride?
I ran across a new business recently that really made me stop and think. Called Fun2Rent, it is a peer-to-peer site set up to connect owners of motorsports equipment, such as motorcycles, boats, and snowmobiles, to people who want to ...
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The Bike Life
Into the Great Wide Open
There has always been a direct link in my mind between motorcycles and exploring. Back when I was saving my money and waiting for the day when I’d be old enough to buy one and get my license I had visions of breaking out of the very ...
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Motorcycle Maintenance 101
As with any complex piece of machinery, a motorcycle benefits from an occasional check-up and adjustment from a knowledgeable profession. In between those infrequent visits, there is a great deal you, the owner, can do to keep it in good ...
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Great Rides
Back in Time on the Oregon Trail
"Go West, young man," was the advice Indiana newspaper writer John Soule gave in 1851. The phrase was popularized by author Horace Greeley, and came to symbolize the entire Western expansion of the United States. For many of us, young or ...
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The Bike Life
Back on Two Wheels
Janice Carrington had one thing going for her when she decided to buy a motorcycle and learn to ride at the age of 61: She had owned and ridden a bike 30 years ago. OK, that really wasn’t such an advantage. “I didn't ride ...
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Off Road
Blazing a Trail
If there’s no route going where you want to go, sometimes you just have to make your own. So it was that Charlie Ketchum and his buddy Dan “Doc” Lewall went about mapping out what they dubbed the Trans Arkansas Trail, TART for ...
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