Rider Magazine Insider

Our guest is Christian Dutcher, Director of Americade, the Touratech DirtDaze Adventure Bike Rally and Rolling Thru America, a motorcycle tour company focusing on the Eastern U.S. Americade is the World’s Largest Touring Rally and takes place each year in Lake George, New York. Due to the pandemic, Americade was cancelled in 2020 and will move from June to September in 2021. We discuss what makes...

Our guest is Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of “The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles,” widely considered one of the best motorcycle books ever written. Pierson is also the author of “The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling’s Endless Road,” and she recently published an edited anthology, “Motorcycles Are Magic.” We discuss Pierson’s books, her love of Moto Guzzi...

Our guest is Rainer Buck, Managing Director of Edelweiss Bike Travel, a global motorcycle tour operator based in Mieming, Austria. We discuss what organized motorcycle tours are all about, from destinations to motorcycle selection to preparation to ensure you have the trip of a lifetime. Rider magazine has partnered with Edelweiss for a special “Best of Greece” tour, October 10-23, 2021, and Raine...

Our guest is Michael Lock, CEO of AMA Pro Racing, which includes Progressive American Flat Track as well as national hillclimb, motocross and ATV race series. Flat track racing is America’s original extreme sport, with more than a century of adrenaline-fueled history. We discuss manufacturer rivalries, legendary motorcycles and racers, and iconic tracks like the Springfield Mile. Michael gives us...

Join the editors of Rider magazine for Episode 6 of our podcast. Our guest is Alonzo Bodden, who has been a comedian for more than 20 years and rode his first motorcycle at age 7. Bodden’s stand-up special “Heavy Lightweight” is available on Amazon Prime Video, and he’s a regular panelist on NPR’s “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.” He has done stand-up at clubs, festivals and events around the world, inc...

Join the editors of Rider magazine for Episode 5 of our podcast. Our guest is Paul D’Orléans, a globally recognized expert on the history of motorcycles and motorcycle culture. He curated “Silver Shotgun: Italian Motorcycle Design of the 1960s and 1970s,” an exhibit currently on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum, and Paul’s feature about the exhibit is in the February 2021 issue of Rider....

Join the editors of Rider magazine for Episode 4 of our podcast. It kicks off with some news about the motorcycle industry, the fate of the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows during the pandemic this year and new bikes here and on the way, like the BMW R 18 and Triumph Trident. Then longtime Rider contributor Eric Trow joins the show to discuss his Stayin’ Safe Motorcycle Training program,...

Join the editors of Rider magazine for Episode 3 of our podcast. We kick it off with some news about Triumph’s very limited Scrambler 1200 James Bond Edition and the availability of Android Auto for 2018 and newer Honda Gold Wing GL1800s. Kawasaki will also manufacture cylinder heads for certain vintage Z1, Z900 and Z1000 models from the 1970s. After the news we talk with Clement Salvadori about h...

We kick off this episode with some news about Covid-19’s effect on the motorcycle industry, and a short report on BMW’s new R 18 cruiser with the Big Boxer engine. Rolling on, photographer Kevin Wing shares a few interesting stories, tips and secrets from his 30-year career as a motorsports photographer for the motorcycle, automotive and aviation industries, including shooting for Rider magazine f...

The first Rider Magazine Insider podcast kicks off with a lively discussion among the editors about some of the new-for-2020 bikes coming our way, including the Triumph Tiger 900s, Suzuki V-Strom 1050 and controversial Suzuki Katana. Then we jump into an interesting and informative interview with Robert Pandya, the Manager of the Discover the Ride program at this season’s Progressive International...