The story is remarkable, even if it is not well known in much of the motorcycling world. In the summer of 1982, a 23-year-old woman left the United Kingdom on a journey to circumnavigate the planet by motorcycle. Elspeth Beard decided that it was an opportune time to leave school, family, and friends behind to do something that few would contemplate and fewer still would have … [Read more...] about Famed rider Elspeth Beard joins BMW celebration
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Have sidecar, will litigate: A Q&A with motorcyclist, Barbara J. Bowers, attorney at law
What kind of bike do you ride and how did you choose it? I always promised my parents I would never get on the back of a motorcycle. Then I met my husband, an avid motorcyclist. It turns out, I don’t belong on the back of a motorcycle, as he tells me I can’t sit still enough. On my birthday a few years ago, he surprised me with a Ural motorcycle. It is a Russian bike [when … [Read more...] about Have sidecar, will litigate: A Q&A with motorcyclist, Barbara J. Bowers, attorney at law
Old School Cool: Dirt bike passion hit Dean Pieranunzi early
At 16, Dean Pieranunzi began his affinity for riding with a friend’s old dirt bike, sparking a passion for vintage motorcycles and restoring dirt bikes from the ’70s. Shortly after he discovered his love for bikes, he bought a 1,000cc Japanese super sport, a bike that proved much too powerful for a teenager. Now Pieranunzi, a carpenter, musician and vintage bike aficionado, … [Read more...] about Old School Cool: Dirt bike passion hit Dean Pieranunzi early
Coming back from the crash
Eons ago, in a different lifetime before motorcycles, I attended a film festival. One of the films was a documentary that still standouts in my mind to do this day. The subject was base jumping—a risky sport where dauntless people jump, with a parachute, not out of a plane but from mountain sides or buildings. During an interview one of the women base jumpers, when explaining … [Read more...] about Coming back from the crash
Okinawa Joe’s: A dream of classic Japanese motorcycles fulfilled
"That gleaming grey Honda CBX, the inline six cylinder model from 1981 basically transformed the latter half of my life,” claimed John Garasimowicz, owner of Okinawa Joe’s Vintage Motorcycle Sales, pointing to the bike in the featured location in the showroom of his motorcycle restoration company in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The company is housed in an old downtown building, in … [Read more...] about Okinawa Joe’s: A dream of classic Japanese motorcycles fulfilled
