GORHAM, NH – There are a few things adventure-minded riders should experience at least once in their lifetime. Riding up the Mt. Washington Auto Road before dawn to watch the sun rise from the top of New England certainly qualifies among them. The sunrise run is offered to the public three …

When the temperatures start to dip and there’s a crispness in the air, it means that the riding season is about to start winding down. It also means loads of shows to attend as summer ends and fall begins. There are at least six major shows and events across New …

HEBRON, CT – It’s a show that keeps growing; attracting more and more vendors as well as vintage motorcycles of modest and exquisite caliber. The annual National Meet of the Yankee Chapter of Antique Motorcycle Club of America kicked off here Friday under a sunny sky that brought out riders …

Some news from dealers around New England (and beyond): – Cumberland County Scooters & Cycles in Portland, ME is now shooting for a mid-April re-opening after being severely damaged by a fire last June 22. No one was injured in that nighttime blaze at 341 Warren St. The business had …

NEW YORK – When a motorcycle looks better suited for display in a museum of modern art than for comfortably ripping along twisty roads, its sales potential has to be questioned. Add a price tag of $30,000 and a riding position that could conceivably have target buyers wincing from lower back …

LENOX, MA – Resting atop a bike stand in the far rear of the showroom at North’s Service here is a light yellow and turquoise motorcycle with a stealth history. Amazingly, the exquisite Swedish-made 1973 Monark enduro model has been hiding in plain sight since

Summer’s here, those days of soda and ice cream and chip-sealing. Before getting to two of those three items, a quick reminder that this monthly “If You Had Asked Me, I Would Have Told You…” column is a catch-all for news items, rumors, odd stuff that I’ve stumbled across as …

TOLLAND, MA – Most every year on the third weekend of May, dual-sport and adventure riders in the region kick-start their riding season with two days of dirty fun at the Berkshire Big Adventure (BBA). Hosted by Berkshire Trail Riders (BTR), this event is open to small to large displacement, …

TORRINGTON, CT – Like almost anyone who has ever ridden, George Yarocki never forgot his first motorcycle – a 1928 Indian 101 Scout. The year was 1941 and he was a 14-year-old sophomore at Torrington High School. “I rode my bicycle by the Indian dealer every day going

SAXTONS RIVER, VT – Life is filled with little lessons, and a brief two-day, 400-mile motorcycle trip to southern Vermont this week provided a few reminders of forgotten lessons and clues on what to do in the future. In motorcycling, there’s a phrase

BROOKLYN – The bio on Makoto Endo’s website is short and to the point. It notes that he was born in Niigata, Japan and later schooled in Tokyo. He studied graphic design and illustration and worked for an ad agency there before coming to New York where he became creative …

Excuse us for being confused. The weather has been so warm recently that we cannot decide whether the 2015 riding season has been unusually long or whether the 2016 riding season has already begun? The approaching spring does mean it’s time to start

It’s not every day that someone sends me century-old pictures of an old Excelsior motorcycle and asks for help in dating it. Yet that’s what happened a week ago when Alta Johnson of Concord, CA reached out to RIDE-CT & RIDE-NewEngland after an Internet search that she was making turned …

BROOKLINE, MA – It’s almost as if the Larz Anderson Auto Museum planned a rodeo rather than an exhibition of vintage motorcycles and then forgot to put on the show; keeping the livestock in a corral instead of showcasing them in an arena. Yes, the museum has herded up

BROOKLINE, MA – More than 70 vintage motorcycles, many of them rare or exotic, have been gathered together at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum for an exhibit titled “Beauty of the Beast.”