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USA: Your Own Ridin’ Idaho

Roderick Eime — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 07:00:49 +0000

Words: Roderick Eime When I received an invitation from Idaho’s petite and glamourous official tourism manager, Diane Norton, to ride a Harley-Davidson around her state, I didn’t expect that she would be coming along for [...]

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Rides We Love: Getting High in New England

Roderick Eime — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:45:48 +0000

Words: Roderick Eime Photos: Roderick Eime, Hema Maps/Matt Williams “So, who’s been in my room?” asked Paul, “all my stuff has been moved around!” As Paul paced the hallway of the Walcha Royal Cafe, [...]

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Ride & Stay Snapshots – Mary Valley

Brendan Alder — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 03:57:12 +0000

The Mary Valley Scenic drive rewards riders with a patchwork landscape of pineapple plantations, grazing cattle, macadamia farms, rainforests and endless rolling hills. If you are heading north out of Brisbane take exit 244 off [...]

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Wild Patagonia! A new tour by Compass Expeditions

Greg Leech — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:13:14 +0000

Compass Expeditions has been riding in Patagonia for over 10 years! The Patagonia Explorer tour is our most popular and made it onto National Geographic Traveler’s “Tours of a Lifetime” list. It is still the [...]

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Harley-Davidson Museum is a lesson in American history

Roderick Eime — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:52:57 +0000

Words: Roderick Eime If there is a shrine to motorcycling in America, this has to be it. 115 years old this year, the iconic brand tells the story of this great nation. She sits astride [...]

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The Hills Are Alive: Touring South Australia

Roderick Eime — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 09:48:34 +0000

Words and photography: Roderick Eime Additional photography as noted. Adelaide. If you haven’t got a bike there, well what’s wrong with ya? We sent our bloke out on a big Guzzi to bring us South [...]

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RIDES WE LOVE: Mudgee – Hill End – Sofala

Roderick Eime — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:23:54 +0000

WORDS: RODERICK EIME PHOTOS: RODERICK EIME, DEB DICKSON-SMITH, NONTHAPUN (MAM) CHONKEEREE, MUDGEE REGION TOURISM NSW’s Central West reveals its best roads to a bunch of old blokes on a brace of the latest Triumph road [...]

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Riding the Revolution

Roderick Eime — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:42:20 +0000

Words: Roderick Eime Images: Roderick Eime, Luis Mas, Miguel Angel Meana, Sergey Kamenev, Maria Elena Gioka, Max Cucchi / Backroad Diaries In truth, this story begins in January 1952 when two 20-something adventurers climbed aboard [...]

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THE LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA PART II

Bill McKinnon — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 09:30:20 +0000

[pullquote]“We’re in Kansas, Dorothy. Trump country. Everybody flies the flag. Roadside billboards proclaim the evils of abortion”[/pullquote] East of the Rockies, in Colorado, I follow Route 50 as it descends to the Great Plains and [...]

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Cape Town to Victoria Falls

a Road Rider contributor — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:19:14 +0000

The plane descended into Cape Town on a beautiful clear late winter afternoon and we were greeted with superb views of the iconic Table Mountain and the city. There, we were to join Charley Boorman [...]

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