Events & Rallies
Kamp Kawasaki
Once a year Kawasaki hosts a get-together for its friends, the media, as well as past and present racers. The event is always scheduled to coincide with the AMA races at Infineon (formerly Sears Point) Raceway in Sonoma, California, and special guests at this year's gathering included Gary Nixon, Jay Springsteen, Rickey Gadson, Jimmy Filice, Jason Britton...
2007 Tour de Pink
Inspired by the exploits of Tour de France legend Greg Lemond and other Americans racing in Europe, I was a rabid, but not very rapid, cyclist in the 1980s. It was exotic stuff to me – wiry cyclists battling over impossibly brutal Alpine passes, the frenzied crowds threatening to swallow them whole, and then in the last possible moment, a motorcycle-mounted...
BMW Motorcycle Training Classes
Last fall, I was invited to join the BMW Motorcycles new on- and off-road training program for motorcyclists at the BMW Performance Center near Spartanburg, South Carolina. The facility, located behind the BMW manufacturing plant and used successfully by car drivers for many years, was recently expanded for motorcycle training. The off-road area is...
6th Annual Femmoto Track Event
Created in 2002 by Bonnie Straswer, co-owner and organizer of Sportbike Track Time, Femmoto is a women's track day weekend that was born from the need for a safe environment where women could push their limits and test their skills in a focused way. The event has paralleled the growing number of women embracing the sport of motorcycling as riders. The...
The Legend of the Motorcycle 2007
Unofficially billed as "Pebble Beach for Bikes," the Legend of the Motorcycle is a celebration of motorcycles intended to rival the best concours d'elegance for cars....
The 2007 BMW MOA Rally
Amid the farms in dairy land, nearly 8,000 motorcyclists and aficionados gathered for four days of motorcycle talk, seminars, and rides at the Washington County Fair Park in West Bend, Wisconsin....
Breganze's Best Rally in B.C.
If Ducati is the Ferrari of motorcycles, then Laverda must be the Lamborghini.Produced in small numbers, and always sport oriented, Laverda's big twins and triples defied the established paradigm that Italian motorcycles were small and light with suspect electrical systems. Massimo Laverda's designs were robust and hugely durable, with ancillaries chosen...
Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club National Meet
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is a freaky place.Your average city is a place where history happens in the course of incidents inevitably occurring over the duration of time. But Oak Ridge is a place created specifically to make history. Big history. History that mankind will remember for as long as man exists. History that changed the meaning of history itself....
Welcome To Beemerville!
The Lima Allen County Fairgrounds became the landing point for Beemerville settlers in 2005. Many questioned the choice of Lima for the rally location. After all, the Midwest is not known to have the greatest riding in the country. The roads are flat and pretty straight – usually not the first or even the fifteenth choice for a bunch of curve...
Vintage Motorcycle Mania At Mid-Ohio
The American Motorcycle Association's 11th annual Vintage Motorcycle Days at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is almost too much fun for one place and one weekend to contain. Motorcycles are everywhere. Racing bikes scream around the road course, motocrossers spew mud as they careen around the dirt course, the racing paddock is a beehive of preparations,...
