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May/June 2014

Arizona Backcountry Discovery Route: American Walkabout

May/Jun '14 Premium Content

Arizona Backcountry Discovery Route: American Walkabout

What am I doing with my life? Where am I headed? We all reach a point when we question ourselves and the meaning of life. Maybe you’re stuck in a dead-end job, maybe you’re not getting along with your spouse, or maybe the ever-increasing demand for your attention

Deadwood, South Dakota Shamrock Tour®: The Black Hills and Beyond

May/Jun '14 Premium Content

Deadwood, South Dakota Shamrock Tour®: The Black Hills and Beyond

“My hat is off to South Dakota Treasures … Go to South Dakota, but drive there. It is so near to us all and yet I never knew, nor had ever heard much about its southwestern treasure house ….” — Frank Lloyd Wright Motoring west across the Great Plains, we see the dark

Southern Ohio: Lighten Up

May/Jun '14 Premium Content

Southern Ohio: Lighten Up

Judging a tour by miles ridden is like rating a meal according to calories consumed. Camping tours, in particular, pilfer at least a couple of hours each day for set up and tear down and often leave one wondering where the time went. With the goal of lowering daily mileage

City Escape: Orlando, Florida

City Escape: Orlando, Florida

> Seeking to escape the wonderful world of Disney? Take this clockwise loop around Central Florida’s third largest lake (Apopka) and Lake Dora to the city of Tavares, which is known as America’s Seaplane City. This lakeside community of luncheon and landing spots melds perfectly with pilots of

City Escape: San Diego, California

City Escape: San Diego, California

> This ride travels to Julian, an old mining town, in the Laguna Mountains. Roads wind through a picturesque country setting, into the mountains, and down through the desert. The Julian area is most beautiful during the springtime, and the Anza Borrego Desert is cool enough to ride at that

Ontario, Canada: O Canada? Fugghedaboutit!

May/Jun '14 Premium Content

Ontario, Canada: O Canada? Fugghedaboutit!

“What?!” It’s Canada Day weekend, and it seems like everyone and their grandmother is getting out of Toronto and hauling all sorts of pop-up campers, canoes, motorboats, and bored teenagers with them. Back home in Jersey, there would be tailgating, passing in the right lane, and cussing as well

Reader Ride-Nordkapp, Norway: An Irishman at the Top of Europe

May/Jun '14 Premium Content

Reader Ride-Nordkapp, Norway: An Irishman at the Top of Europe

Nordkapp (North Cape) has been a mystical place for me since I was a boy. I remember  reading a book about a car journey from North Cape to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. It was probably written in the early ‘50s. I never dreamed then that I

Review: 2014 Suzuki V-Strom 1000 ABS

Review: 2014 Suzuki V-Strom 1000 ABS

> Let’s get this over with. No, the new V-Strom is not a BMW GS clone. Yes, it has a beak, but it could be argued that BMW copied said beak from Suzuki’s 1988 DR-BIG and DR-Z. Who copied whom aside; Suzuki does have a legitimate claim to

Review: 2014 Can-Am Spyder RT Limited

Review: 2014 Can-Am Spyder RT Limited

> Thanks to the Spyder’s inherent stability, high-tech ingenuity, and Canadian bravado, Can-Am has made the “backwards trike” a household name in only seven years. For model year 2014, they continue their success by dropping the V-twin engine and replacing it with an all-new inline triple, adding a sixth

Review: 2014 Kawasaki Ninja 1000 ABS

Review: 2014 Kawasaki Ninja 1000 ABS

> Kawasaki’s sporty and powerful Ninja 1000 has been morphed into a respectable sport-touring machine for 2014. Some of the biggest changes include standard ABS and revamped color-matched saddlebags, but there are a number of smaller tweaks that add up nicely. Powertrain and Performance Motive power continues to come