It’s a typical first-timer's scenario. You’re on your motorcycle headed for a town where you’ve made arrangements to spend the night with some total strangers. The nearer you get, the more you have second thoughts. Will these people be weird? Will you be uncomfortable? Will you have to spend time with them? This is not, after all, a bed and breakfast; this is ... More »

One of the sweetest joys of riding a motorcycle is being out there in the world you’re passing through. That’s as opposed to being enclosed in a steel cage, peering out through a windshield that limits your view, shut off from the smells and other sensory inputs of the world around you. More »

“The appeal is the distance and the destination. It’s a great excuse to come to Alaska.” In case you’ve ever wondered why someone would want to ride a motorcycle on 5,000 miles of bad road, there’s at least part of your answer, straight from John Isenberg, who just ran in the ALCAN 5000. More »

The Sturgis Bike Rally is over and it’s time to sort through the memories. This was my second trip to the rally and it was a vastly different experience than my first time. How do they compare? More »

There's a reason the Sturgis Bike Rally is such a big event, and it's not because Sturgis is such a cool, unique place to go. What has made the rally so big is that the Black Hills are home to some of the best motorcycle roads in the country. Rally goers generally drop in to Sturgis for a few hours and then spend most of their time out riding this gorgeous country. More »

Spearfish Canyon is one of the three best motorcycle roads in the Black Hills, and therefore is a favorite of the bikers who come to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which is just coming to a close. U.S. 14A runs up the canyon from the town of Spearfish to connect with U.S. 85 heading east to Deadwood. From Deadwood it runs down Boulder Canyon to Sturgis. With a quick blast ... More »