The Magazine Job that Changed His Life
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Explaining when I first rode a motorcycle is easy. It was many years later before I actually became a motorcyclist.
For Father and Son, Scooters Were the Spark
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Don’t get me wrong – shifting your own gears is quite satisfying, but I wanted to focus on my adventure on two wheels without worrying about which gear I was in.
Motorcycling Changed Her Approach to Life
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Over time and additional training courses, I gained more skill and confidence. This confidence-building impacted my life in ways I never imagined. My professional life improved and what I had perceived as limitations and roadblocks, I now viewed as tasks to overcome – pushing beyond and exploring new possibilities.
Mother and Son Achieve Their Dreams Together
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Not even the Bandit outrunning Smokey or the Dukes of Hazzard dusting Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane could outdo Evel Knievel on his motorcycle.
She Was Going to Quit, but then Took a Cross-Country Ride
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The motorcycle sat. At first it was because it was winter. Then it was a career. Then it was family commitment. Truth be told, it was fear.
Sharing the Love and Passion in More Ways than One
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Motorcycling can be gritty and sometimes uncomfortable, but we love it because we are all motorcycle addicts!
A Happily-Ever-After Through Motorcycles
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Autumn Holley and Eric Trama met through an MSF Basic RiderCourse. Autumn was taking the licensing class with a friend, and Eric happened to be one of the coaches. But things didn’t happen right away.
Boldness, Bravery, and a Sense of Adventure
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My pedal bicycle had just been stolen from where I’d locked it while I was hanging out at a dive bar called the Zeitgeist, where Motorhead was in heavy rotation on the jukebox and MotoGP played Sundays on the TV, so maybe it was meant to be.
Eat, Sleep, Dream, Talk, Ride, Live, Love Motorcycles
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We eat, sleep, dream, talk, ride, live, and love motorcycles. I’m paraphrasing an old sticker that sums up my love of bikes.
Finding Adventure
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By Eva Rupert Event planner, writer, adventure-seeker, and MSF DirtBike School Coach I took my first motorcycle camping trip in New England nearly 20 years ago, a few months after getting my license and decades before I had any idea that adventure riding was even a thing. I never grew up around motorcycles and, in my […]