Resplendent passages where travel becomes solitude, discipline, and return.
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What’s In A Name? Run to the Rez 21
Run to the Rez is coming up this weekend. I’ll be there listening and hoping to find words to describe this rally and Veterans honor ride. More than just a gathering, the four-day motorcycle rally, ‘Run to the Rez’ is also a mystery. Albert Einstein wrote of mystery, “The most beautiful thing we can…
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Two-part Video and Written Review of KEMIMOTO’S Windshield Extender on a Honda Rebel and a Harley-Davidson Road King
(Discount code included) at the end of this post as KEMIMOTO is celebrating their 13th anniversary. Use AFF17 for 17% off no threshold discount on this $79 product. KEMIMOTO’S Windshield Extender is a fantastic buy to reduce the wind blast to their forehead, stop the rain before it gets to your neck and chest, and…
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Check out my Royal Enfield with this day travel bag for motorcycle or bicycle
I’m convinced of a product’s worthiness when I see comparisons between two or more with similar features. I’ve been in the market for a day bag to mount on my Royal Enfield Bullet 500. There are lots of bags out there, but they never appealed to me. I hadn’t found one that met my needs…
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RESPLENDENT PASSAGES: Motorcycling to a Yoga Festival, Diaries in Soul Craft
The grand American narrative of the open road is more compelling on a motorcycle. It captures the imagination of wanders and seekers because it looks like a story of independence and freedom. It’s not always true, but there is a universal search playing out in every riders quest for the open road, and that is…
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RIDE this Royal Enfield. Available through Riders Share Motorcycle Rental for Old Skool Riding Adventure
Rent this classic Royal Enfield 500 Bullet from me, a Riders Share Power Owner, through Riders Share, the AirB&B of motorcycle rental. Link at the end of this post. Coupon available with this code. Contact me with the link below to meet “Biggie,” a show-winner in the cruiser category at Superstition Harley Davidson 2021 BYO…
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Tour Arizona on a Harley, rent from riders Share – the motorcycle Air B&B
Need to go south and rent a Harley for your riding fix? Get this one through Riders Share. use this coupon for a discount on me I’m a former MSF rider coach for Hawaii and a motorcycle journalist published in Thunder Press, American Rider, HOG Magazine (now The Enthusiast), and AZ Rider Southwest. I taught…
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Utah’s New Old Skool Motorcycle Rally in Panguitch, UT. See my preview in June’s American Rider Magazine
BIKERS, all I can say is that you ought to go to Utah’s New Old Skool Motorcycle Rally in Panguitch. You won’t regret it, cause it’s hot and it’s cool. . . . It will be held July 9-12 in Panguitch, Utah Utah’s New Old Skool Motorcycle Rally, The Best Motorcycle Rally You Never…
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Six Gears and a Mountain Ride – Mechanical Breakdown and Communication Rescue
A Riders Share Owner’s Story Nobody wants a mechanical breakdown – ever! But think of your bike out with a renter and he is a thousand miles out on the ride. Worse, the nearest repair facility is over 100 miles away; and your bike and renter are stranded on a remote mountain road. You don’t…
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Pyramid Tomb Tour of Arizona: mysterious, memorable, and majestic
Hello Motorcycle friends. American Rider Magazine (journal of the International Big Twin community) will soon publish my story and many photos of an incredible mototour to Arizona’s three pyramid-tombs. They’re mysterious, memorable, and majestic – like the people buried inside – and they’re located in Quartzsite, Florence, and Papago Park in Phoenix. You can check…