Sport Touring Corner-Salvaging the End of the Season

December 3, 2025

Sport Touring Corner- Salvaging the End of the SeasonBy Norm Kern At the beginning of September I broke the fibula in my left leg while loading my bike on a trailer for a rally trip to Missouri. Fortunately it’s not a load bearing bone- I was able to get a removable boot and move around…

Steps for Planning a Motorcycle Poker Run

December 3, 2025

A Basic Checklist to Help Start the Process – Stay tuned for more articles to come! Motorcycle poker runs are a popular fundraising or social event where participants ride a set route, stopping at various checkpoints to collect playing cards. At the end of the ride, there’s usually a party and the rider with the…

Join the Ride — Discover Motorcycle Sport Touring Association (MSTA)

October 22, 2025

By Norm Kern What is MSTA? If you’re a sport touring rider who enjoys the freeing experience of motorcycling – with adventure – discovering new roads or reliving your favorites, MSTA is for you. We seek community, the opportunity to make new connections and experience our passion.  We’re a national club with about 1,100 members,…

Dress for THE RIDE, not just the SLIDE.

October 21, 2025

High Quality Riding Gear Makes All The Difference While many say the opposite, the real truth is that if you don’t find yourself comfortable in your protective gear,  you’re not likely going to wear it.  It’s also a hard truth that if you think you look like an idiot – you may also not wear…

Sport Touring CornerMSTA FlyBy Week 2025 

August 31, 2025

By Norm Kern Motorcycle Sport Touring Association’s largest regional rally returns to Marietta, Ohio, August 18 – 24, offering outstanding sport touring routes, scenic countryside, fine dining, and social time in a location that is easy to get to  from any direction. Most arrive on Thursday, ride for two days and go home on Sunday.…

Rochester Hills 2nd Annual Bike Show & Family Day 

August 26, 2025

Rochester Hills, Michigan – Sunday, September 14th NEW BIGGER LOCATION! BIGGER SHOW! We are proud to announce the return of the Rochester Hills Strong Custom & Vintage Bike Show & Family Day! This is a GREAT community event that brought out some of the coolest bikes in the state last year in support of the…

Dale’s Wheels Through Time: A Living Chronicle of American Motorcycles

August 6, 2025

America’s Most Dynamic Motorcycle Museum Nestled in the picturesque valley town of Maggie Valley, North Carolina, Dale’s Wheels Through Time stands as both a museum and a living testament to the passion and perseverance of American motorcycling. Revered among enthusiasts and travelers alike, this unique institution is more than a mere repository of mechanical artifacts;…

MSTA TWISTAR Rally, Spring Green Wisconsin

July 28, 2025

Sport Touring Corner By Norm Kern In June, I attended the Motorcycle Sport Touring Association (MSTA) TWISTAR rally in Spring Green Wisconsin, which was revived in 2025 after a ten year hiatus. I was excited to return, as western Wisconsin’s Driftless area has wonderful roads throughout a lush, rolling countryside where the roads’ gentle hills…

CMA Corner: It’s beyond me how time flies by so quickly…

July 22, 2025

Do you remember when you were a kid, and you thought time was never going to hurry up? Like waiting for summer break or Christmas seemed to be an eternity. Now the days and weeks just fly by like a breath of air and Christmas came and went, summer is rushing through and before we…

Reaching ALL Veterans in Need.

July 17, 2025

Chaplain Otto Ministries has established the first ever American Legion Post inside an Ohio Prison. In 2024, John “Otto” Guthmann established a ministry focused on a segment of the Veterans community that many had forgotten or written off – those incarcerated within our prison system.  Chaplain Otto believes that even behind bars, Vets deserve healing,…

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Armed and Riding: A Guide to Carrying a Handgun on a Motorcycle

Motorcycles and firearms both symbolize freedom—but combining the two requires careful planning, legal awareness, and the right gear. Whether you’re cruising cross-country or commuting to work, here’s what you need to know about carrying a handgun on two wheels. Legal Considerations Carry Methods That Work According to GunBroker’s guide, here are some of the most effective ways to carry: Concealment…

My Riding Adventure

By Mary Blackard, Reasons to Ride Contributor Sixty years ago, my love affair with motorcycles began. I rode every chance I got with whomever would take me. Life in the mid-sixties was certainly a safer time AND God kept His eyes on me! After many years of cycle envy, I bought a new 1978 orange AMF Harley 350. My husband…

CMA: Jumpin’ into June!

My goodness we are just rolling along! It’s June already and quite the month for celebrations and ceremonies! Graduations, weddings, birthday and anniversary parties and even more Bike Blessings!! I thought May was jammed packed with stuff but as I look at June…well hang on honey…we have a lot of roads to travel! Ever wonder why the bike blessings started?…

Sport Touring Corner: MSTA Ozark Escape Rally

By Norm Kern The Motorcycle Sport Touring Association (MSTA) Ozark Escape rally is held annually the first weekend of May in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It’s one of the few MSTA rallies I have not attended, mostly because it’s 690 miles away from my home in Dayton, Ohio. There were four of us going from Ohio- Tim Mullins and Bruce Schweikert…

Carrying While Riding A Motorcycle

By Deryck Poole, PersonalDefenseNetwork.com The reasons why we ride are as varied as the number of different makes, models, and styles of motorcycles on the road. I fall into the “way of life” category and log in the neighborhood of 10,000 miles per year. My yearly riding profile consists of daily commuting, errands, rallies, and at least two long-haul (2.5k+…

Sport Touring Corner: Downsizing My Dual Sport Bike By Norm Kern

As my regular readers know, I have been downsizing my bikes to postpone aging out. The process began in 2020 when I added a 650 Suzuki V Strom XT to my stable and learned I could live with a much lighter chain drive bike.  Last September I purchased a Triumph Tiger 900 ADV Rally Pro to directly replace the FJR…

Gun Raffles and Responsible Gun Storage

More and more grassroots non-profits and charity events are turning to gun raffles as an effective means of raising funds to support their causes.  These raffles are conducted through a licensed broker or shop and offer participants (purchasing raffle tickets) the opportunity to win a firearm for just the price of a ticket – often as little as $5 or…

CMA: 50 Years Of Ministry

CMA members are a special group of people who have a heart to change the world one heart at a time and the mission and vision of this ministry hasn’t changed in 50 years. We were the very first ministry in the motorcycling community starting in 1975 and we have made many relationships with all kinds of great people in…

Are You Ready?- CMA CORNER April

April is here and, if you’re like me, we have spent a great deal of time thinking about the coming season! Are you ready? In the winter months we spend a lot of time resting and doing the things we don’t usually take the time for during riding season, so we do things that prepare us for the next season,…

A Passion for Motorsports and Photography

Reasons to Ride is proud to work with photographers such as Stephen Tripp One of the most important components of a magazine, a website, or even social media is the photography and imagery of the pages or sites.  Visual images allow us to connect and experience – or re-experience in some cases – events, destinations, or even machines such as…