No matter how long you’ve been riding a motorcycle, it’s likely that at one time or another you’ve found yourself riding with a very tight grip on the handlebars. Most times it’s when fear takes over or something triggers your anxiety level to go up.
Everyday Miracles: Loosen Your Grip
It’s been almost a month since I wrote my last column; I had wanted to write this one sooner, but I kept getting distracted. Ahhh…distractions. The title of this column. It seems the time I devote to spiritual matters and the “care and tending of my soul” (I heard that once and loved it) is often low on the totem pole of my daily priorities.
Everyday Miracles: Limiting Distractions to Receive
I’m tired. Yes, tired in so many ways. Physically, my strong lithe body has been whipped as my hormones rebalance themselves to a new normal. But I’m tired mentally too. And I never thought I’d say any of this…
Everyday Miracles: Learning to Let Go
I turn 50 this year. It’s not that I dread the big 5-0, it’s just for the last two years leading up to this milestone age, I’ve been going through a spiritual transformation. In the old days, it was called a mid-life crisis.
Next week, fellow motorcycle journalist and author Cris Sommer Simmons and her husband, Pat Simmons (guitarist for the Doobie Brothers), are riding to Milwaukee on vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycles for Harley-Davidson’s 110th anniversary celebration.
Editor’s Page: Couple Rides to Harley 110th on Vintage Bikes
I’m proud to call the state of Montana my home. I moved here not only for the beautiful scenery in every direction, but also for the incredible and uncrowded riding roads. In my opinion, there are few roads in Montana that don’t offer picture-perfect views.
Book Review: Motorcycling Montana, Beartooth Highway and Northern Rockies
She’d been riding only two years on a street motorcycle before committing to take on the trip of a lifetime. Now that trip is landing Laura Ellis on a national television show airing this weekend on Speed Channel.
WRN Editor’s Page with Video: Inspirational Woman Rider on TV This Weekend
On Friday, May 3, women motorcyclists from Alexandria, Minn., to Capetown, South Africa, to Budapest, Hungary, hopped in the saddle to show the world that more women than ever are riding their own.
Editor’s Blog: Women Ride in Record Numbers
For all the Women Riders Now (WRN) readers who love Kid Rocks music and/or think hes adorable (for me, in a blue collar, hillbilly kind of way), heres some exciting news. Kid Rock and Harley-Davidson are teaming up in a partnership that brings together two legendary American rebels.
Editors Blog: Kid Rock and Harley-Davidson Team Up
Many in the motorcycle industry know Leslie Prevish as the former director of women’s outreach at Harley-Davidson. Leslie is credited with developing the women’s outreach division of Harley-Davidson and making it what it is today. She’s often said that the job was a dream for her.
Editor’s Blog: Whatever Happened to Leslie Prevish?