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Category: Ride Back Roads

A collection of stories specifically about the experience of riding back roads on a motorcycle.

RV bus driving west on a back road
May 5, 2022October 17, 2022 Scott

The Great American Road Trip: an Itinerary for Driving Cross Country

August 4, 2022August 23, 2022 Scott

Chen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Harley Davidson motorcycles sit in front of a sunny tent camping site in the woods
April 14, 2020August 23, 2022 Scott

Motorcycle Camping: Tools, Equipment and Gear every biker needs to have

Loose gravel on an ATV trail through the dense woods of rural Maine
October 11, 2020March 8, 2021 fossfolks

Maine Back Roads on a Motorcycle: The Actual Trip (Part 2)

The setting sun casts a beautiful golden sheen over Rock Haven Lake in rural southern Maine
August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 fossfolks

Motorcycle Road Trip: the Back Roads of Maine on a Bike (Part 1)

A black and white photo of a retro harley davidson kicking up sparks while racing around a bend in an empty back road
August 22, 2016February 18, 2020 Scott

My Time in the Fast Lane, as Lived by a Moderately Slow Man

The silhouette of a Harley Davidson motorcycle and its rider races across the blurred country back road
April 29, 2018November 6, 2019 Scott

The Truth about Riding Motorcycles

August 10, 2014August 13, 2019 Scott

528 to Foxburg

June 1, 2013August 13, 2019 Scott

Fern Hollow – 15 miles

June 25, 2013May 3, 2019 Scott

The Trip that Started it all… (Part 3 – DC to Pittsburgh – 380 miles)

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  • Motorcycle Road Trip: the Back Roads of Maine on a Bike (Part 1)

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  • An RV drives a curving back road through beautiful mountains
    Beautiful views on the Million Dollar Highway
  • cars and motorcycles travel through the mountains on a scenic back road
    Drivers enjoy the panoramic scenery of the back roads in Colorado
  • A drone shot of a u-shaped two lane back road winds through the pine trees in eastern California's High Sierra region
    A swooping curve on US-50 in the High Sierra, California
  • A man stands in the middle of a back road in the desert of eastern California with the towering Sierra Nevada mountains in the background
    Just over the border into California near Mono Lake
  • A distant car drives up a back road as it weaves its way up a distant hillside
    A driver navigates the back roads leading to Great Basin NP
  • A beautiful vibrant sunset glows over a back road where there is a silhouette of two kids sit taking a selfie
    Soaking in the sunset at Badlands NP
  • A pair of Harley Davidson motorcycles enter Doane Robinson Tunnel, with the faces on Mount Rushmore clearly visible under fluffy clouds in a blue sky
    Riders explore Doan Robinson Tunnel near Mount Rushmore
  • The towering granite peaks of Grand Teton mountain range soar towards an ice blue sky over Jackson Lake
    The stunning peaks of Grand Teton NP
  • Snow capped granite mountain peaks tower over TA Moulton old barn in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park
    Is there a more iconic Wyoming view?
  • A narrow dirt road runs along the side of one of several mountains creating the boundary around Sun Valley Idaho
    A back road heads into the mountains surrounding Sun Valley ID
  • A two lane back road by a raging river divides two drastically different landscapes - smooth rolling sage-covered hills on the left, and jagged granite cliffs on the right
    Steep canyon walls carved by the Payette River in ID
  • A man standing near a black Ford F150 stares out over an enormous desert valley in central Idaho
    A traveler surveys the landscapes of central ID
  • A back road route stretches straight across the flat desert valley floor towards the towering eastern Sierra Nevada mountains in California
    Mono Lake CA
  • A curving back road arches towards a panoramic view of the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains in eastern California
    CA route 89 in the Eastern Sierra Nevada
  • back road route bridge stretches across New Melones Lake in the foothills of the western Sierra Nevada mountains
    CA route 49 near Angels Camp CA
  • The iconic Half Dome in Yosemite NP
  • Crisp fluffy white clouds and a brilliant blue sky top the towering snow capped peak of Wheeler Mountain in Great Basin National Park Nevada
    Great Basin National Park
  • Monument Valley back road
    Monument Valley, on the AZ / UT border
  • RV bus driving west on a back road
    An RV heads west on the Loneliest Road in America

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