I can’t always find the words to express how meaningful riding is to me and for so many of us around the world. But others have very effectively found those words. One such person is Melissa Holbrook Pierson from her 1997 book, The Perfect Vehicle. So today, we will hear from the most eloquent Forward that I’ve ever heard. I’ll have a link in the show notes for how you can get your own copy of this book. So for now, I ask you to relax, pour yourself a favorite co...

Sometimes our motorcycle rides are fast paced. Yes, that’s fun, but a fast paced life? That’s not so fun. It can be high-risk and destructive. There are ways of building some cushion of safety, both in motorcycling and in life. Creating some “ Margin" as they call it. We need to know when to adjust the load, when to slow down, when to make a change, when to rest, before something happens that could impact our ability to ride. This is important stuff. Send me...

My hope for you and for myself is that we will be just like George Bailey at the end of the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”. By having a motorcycle, the ability to ride to ride it and the many friends and family who love us, we will recognize how very blessed you are right now. We’ll be reminded that yeah, we are having a Wonderful Life.Send me a message!

Brady McLean, the founder of Go Fast Don’t Die, has a story to share. Yeah, that’s a cool slogan and he loves motorcycling, but you’ll learn that there’s much more to Brady than business and bikes. He knows a lot about living a full life. Honestly, I just felt lucky to be in a conversation with a guy like him. Get ready for a transformative conversation.Send me a message!

Kim Casares is an amazing motorcycle rider who pushed the limits of courage and strength to reach her goal of riding a motorcycle to the Base Camp of Mount Everest. Here is my interview with my new friend, a true Motorcycle Adventurer.Send me a message!

Go out there, ride, gain strength, be happy, and share that strength and your inner joy with someone else. Be a Hero. You ask "What are you talking about, Ron"??? Oh, have I got a story for you!Send me a message!

Motorcycling. It’s transportation and a cool means for travel, but if you’re like me, it’s the same play that I experienced in my childhood. When we go out for a ride, we go out to play, sometimes alone and sometimes with our friends, and that’s a beautiful thing. What a gift to be able to do that!Send me a message!

Today, we take a few minutes just to relax and we do that by reading passages from a little book that not only takes us on our motorcycles down the road, but it also reminds us why we have such a desire to be on the road in the first place. Published in 2013 and edited by Malcolm Nelson and Kristen Lassen, it’s called The Little Black Book of Motorcycle Wisdom.The Little Black Book of Motorcycle WisdomSend me a message!

I hear it often, even from motorcycle riders traveling on vacation. I often hear it as I meet vacationers in the National Park. If people tell me that they are leaving for home the next day, they often say “We have to go back to reality”. Maybe, they’ve got it all wrong. Maybe they have it backwards. Perhaps they have been in reality all along.

There is value in understanding that we don’t have to be perfect. With each new ride, we have the opportunity to get become a better rider and during that process, let’s just be satisfied with the fact that we’ve found something that we love.

My brother-in-law and I got ski-high together. No, not a chemical high through whatever means, but he on his Triumph and me on my BMW, no hallucinations going on here at all. This is real. Climbing so high on mountain roads, temperatures dropping over by 30 degrees. Seeing for miles and miles in every direction, it gives you a new perspective. Maybe a new perspective on life. The world… is beautiful and there are lots and lots of amazing open space everywhe...

I’ll never forget our group ride here in Colorado and the smile on my friend's face. He rented his dream motorcycle from EagleRider, a business that is led by a motorcycle rider who also cares about people. My friend's smile means mission accomplished.I'm excited to visit today with the CEO of EagleRider, Sebastian Schoepe!Learn more about EagleRider at: EagleRider.comSupport the show

Many of our motorcycle rides are just circles. Some 5 mile loops others 500 miles, but usually we start from home and return home. Why do we do the same thing over and over again? Well, we riders know why. Yes, crazy can be fun!Support the show

I’m excited to share with you an unedited conversation with my friend Andreas Metzger. Andreas and his wife Lisa joined me for a long Saturday ride through arguably the most beautiful spaces on Earth here in Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming. I gave Andreas no prep time. I just handed him a clip-on microphone and told him “OK buddy, let’s talk”.Support the show

Today we replay what I feel is one of the more important episodes thus far. It’s one about forgiveness. It’s about compassion. It’s about showing love for a stranger. It’s about a wrong assumption about a driver who almost killed you.Support the show

Are you looking for a community? A sense of belonging? Well, you already have your membership card. It’s the motorcycle you ride! It’s the jacket you’re wearing. It’s the helmet you carry into the coffee shop. You’re in! You are a part of a growing community of motorcycling riders. How great is that?

While preparing every Episode for this podcast, I make an effort to refresh my memory on how I feel when I’m out on my bike. Since I had determined that I would call this episode, Riding in the Rain, well then, I needed to ride in the rain! So this afternoon the timing was perfect. Here in Colorado, most afternoons or evenings, a rainstorm will likely come through. I saw on the weather radar that 30 miles from my home, there was a storm brewing. So, for you, for ...

About 50 miles northwest from my home in Loveland, Colorado are two places where I ride my motorcycle quite often. Following Highway 287 in vast, wide open spaces, just before the Colorado Wyoming border we arrive in a place called Virginia Dale. Here are two very different places of worship. Each with it's own methods for a common goal. A great place to ride, to stop, to take a seat and to listen.

My hope for this short episode is that you can ride your motorcycle to your own place of Serenity, such as Serenity Coffee in Riverside, Wyoming. To stop, relax, take in the scenery, and know that, at least for that moment, you are the luckiest guy or gal in the world, and all is well with your world. Serenity Coffee, Riverside, WyomingMusic by: Gary Schmidt MusicWilliam_King and Olexy from Pixabay

It was two days after my motorcycle broke down in the Nevada Desert that I made the recording. It’s actually a video where I described how everything was going great, until it wasn’t going so great. Most importantly, I shared my feelings at that moment. Not a feeling of despair, or disappointment that my motorcycle journey had ended so abruptly. Instead, it was about feelings of overwhelming gratitude. Gratitude for a world just full of people who will help a str...

I would love to hear from you! Send a message!A trip of a lifetime. How often have you experienced that? Today, we travel to New England and visit with Pat, Greg and Scott from Moto-Cyco Touring Adventures. I so enjoyed talking with these guys about the amazing motorcycle tours that they offer. Now I have an addition to my personal touring bucket list. You may too! https://www.moto-cyco.com/[email protected]

The Sheriffs Officer said that her name is Laura and that he would try to keep an eye on her. But unless she broke the law or got hurt, I think there was little he could do.My intent for today’s episode was to celebrate the great success of this past Sunday’s Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride. It was fabulous, but if it’s OK, I feel the need to share with you the experience that I had out in the country on my motorcycle just 2 hours ago.

On Sunday, May 19th, 2024, I’ll see love in this world. I’ll feel it. And so will over 100,000 motorcycle riders. On Sunday morning, literally around the world, there will be a Global hug. An expression of love for those we know and also a love for total strangers. Maybe you’ll even feel it from wherever you are. A warmth from human connections. Hearts beating together. Am I being a bit over-dramatic? No, I don’t think so. I’ve seen ...

“Windows of Opportunity”. We assume that there'll always be time for this or that. Until there is no time left. Whether it’s planning our next motorcycle journeys or sharing a coffee with an old friend, in today’s episode, let’s share some ideas for making every Window of Opportunity count. Today we feature the wisdom of Ben Giese from Vahna Magazine:https://vahna.com/