New: Arizona Backcountry Discovery Route
A video worth watching on the Butler site. Those folks at Butler Maps just keep on going. The latest offering they’ve come out with is the Arizona Backcountry Discovery Route. This one is looking even...
View ArticleGoing Riding With Colorado Motorcycle Adventures
The Colorado Motorcycle Adventures website. I find it amazing how the number of motorcycle rental and tour outfits in Colorado has grown. Not many years ago I could have named about four but now there...
View ArticleThe Personal Side of the Intro to ADV Ride
What's he doing riding out there in the woods? On Monday I gave the basic run-down of where we went on this Colorado Motorcycle Adventures “Intro to Adventure Riding” ride I did with Scott Lee and the...
View ArticleAdventure Rally Series Coming to Gunnison
The Adventure Rally Series 2014 is happening this month in Gunnison. This is the kind of thing I’m more and more interested in but once again it’s something I will miss. Seems a bunch of interested...
View ArticleAdventure Motorcycling Business Growing in Colorado
That sales floor was pretty empty on Saturday but by the grand opening on Friday it should be full. The growth in the number of outfits in Colorado renting off-road capable motorcycles–dual-sport and...
View ArticleThe Article I Want To Write
I just have to get out to places like this more. I have my Google Alerts set to pick up articles with the word “motorcycle” and today it brought me to an article I find particularly interesting. Titled...
View ArticleADV Riders on a Good, Long Ride
Packing up to leave before the rains came in. We went to Dinosaur National Monument this past weekend for three days and loved it. Besides seeing the place, I wanted to see how the roads would be if...
View ArticleRocky Mountain Adventure Riders Plans ‘Ride With Respect’ in Utah
The Rocky Mountain Adventure Riders website. I don’t list motorcycle events outside of Colorado on my Colorado Motorcycle Rides, Runs, and Rallies page but I do go outside the state here on the blog....
View ArticleIdaho BDR Keeps Going and Going
You’re going to have to be a serious, serious off-road, adventure bike type of rider if you intend to do the Idaho Backcountry Discovery Route, as laid out on the Butler Maps map of that name. Not...
View ArticleGetting Off The Pavement
John’s driveway. Some motorcycles are built to go off the paved road, even off any road at all. Generally, these have knobby tires for getting a good grip and serious suspension that can take big bumps...
View ArticleFinding Riding Trails In Colorado
The TrailTaker site could be a good tool to spark riding ideas. I owe Mark Odette on this one. He sent me an email way back in September and I forgot about it, but was digging through old emails today...
View ArticleRecovery To Ride And ‘Two Wheels Through Terror’
I was still in the hospital after my heart surgery and Bill came to see me. He figured I had a lot of time to read and brought me a copy of Two Wheels Through Terror. This is a book that tells the...
View ArticleProfile: New Zealand Calling
Photo by Zigy Kaluzny Zigy Kaluzny wanted to get away – far away. And he didn’t just want to visit a country, he wanted to see it. So he contacted a bike dealer and arranged to buy a 1996 BMW R1100GS,...
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