A motorcycle journey that became a template for modern travel writing—measured not in miles, but in attention. First published in 1979, Jupiter’s Travels remains one of the most quietly influential works of travel literature. Ted Simon’s four-year circumnavigation on a Triumph Tiger is less a chronicle of distance than a sustained exercise in observation—patient, humane, […]
“I am, after all, a free Black woman motorcycling across the country unimpeded—but I also believe it’s our job to make sure that dream doesn’t turn into a nightmare,” Porsche Taylor, Black Girls Ride founder. The six women rode their motorcycles nearly 3,000 miles Cross-Country over four consecutive days, in the name of civil rights. […]
Optimal time of year for motorcycle tours is from late spring to early fall No better way to experience the vast landscape of Canada, which has the second largest landmass, 998,4670 KM (385,5100 Miles) in the world, than on a motorcycle. Canada, has four seasons; spring, summer, fall and winter. The weather varies across the […]
For their vacations some people prefer water, others air and for a few the preference is two wheels on the asphalt. The eight day Baja California South Bound Motorcycle Tour offered by EagleRider takes the rider from Los Angeles down along the almost detached peninsula from the rest of the country offering a truly pure […]
Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live . . . and a meditation on how to live better. The book describes a seventeen-day summer motorcycle trip across the United States from Minneapolis, Minnesota to California undertaken by a father and his […]