AMA

American Motoryclist Association

"Since 1924, the AMA has protected the future of motorcycling and promoted the motorcycle lifestyle. AMA members come from all walks of life, and they navigate many different routes on their journey to the same destination: freedom on two wheels. As the world's largest motorcycling organization, the AMA advocates for motorcyclists' interests in the halls of local, state and federal government, the committees of international governing organizations, and the court of public opinion.

"Through member clubs, promoters and partners, the AMA sanctions more motorsports competition and motorcycle recreational events than any other organization in the world. Through its Motorcycle Hall of Fame, the AMA preserves the heritage of motorcycling for future generations. AMA members receive money saving discounts from dozens of well-known suppliers of motorcycle services, gear and apparel, bike rental, transport, hotel stays and more. The AMA is everything motorcycle."

Adventure Rider Motorcycle Forum

So, you want to ride to Deadhorse and dip your tire in the Arctic, then turn south and dip it in the Straights of Magellen at Ushuaia? Long to cross Siberia on a dual sport? This is the place for you!

Barber Motorsports Park & Museum

Barber's Motorsports Park is the home to one of the greatest motorycle museums in the United States.

The park host the Barber Vintage Festival every year in October. This festival is the premier event for antique and vintage bike enthusiasts and features vintage motorcycle racing on the impressive track, dirt racing, an auction, and huge vintage bike swap meet. VJMC is usually featured predominantly at the festival; don't miss their pancake breakfast! At the swap meet you can find everything from that NOS speedo for your '72 CB350 or an entire barn-find bike, ready for restoration. Don't want to restore an old bike? You just want to ride, ride, ride? You can find that here, too, turn key (or kick) ready-to-go restored bikes. This event is in Leeds, AL, just north east of Birmingham, an area filled with great riding-roads. (Try Dunavant Rd., just east of the park.) Stay in a motel or camp out in a tent—your choice. I'll see you there! Look for the teal and white '68 CB350 and tired rider.

If you can't make it to the festival, any time of the year is a great time to visit the museum. The park hosts the Superbike Classic, Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, and the Porsche Driving School.

Chasing Horizons

Want to live vicariously through a couple of intrepid Brits adventuring halfway around the world?  Here's the site where they will post as they go from UK to Alaska to Tierra del Fuego to Africa to Europe and back to UK (and perhaps more).

EagleRider Motorcycle Rental USA

Live in Miami, but always wanted to ride the Pacific Northwest? Stuck working in Arizona, but always wanted to see the autumn colors change in New Hampshire from the back of a motorcycle? EagleRider Motorcycle Rental might just be the ticket for you. Can't afford the time off to ride cross-country to that territory you always dreamed of riding? Fly in and pick up your ride. While you are at it, why not do an extended test drive on that bike you have been thinking of buying? EagleRider has a wide selection of bikes and locations from which to choose. Prefer riding in a group? Choose an all-inclusive "Guided Tour." Or if you hate planning, but love to ride to new places, choose one of the "Self-Guided Tours" and ride onboard one of EagleRider's bikes with routes and accomodations already arranged .

Fuji's Workshop

A fellow VJMC member's blog site. Follow this experienced mechanic's trials and triumphs while he restores some great old vintage Japanese motorcycles in his shop in Brooksville, Florida.

Howzit Done? with Capt. Crash

Motorcycle Tips, Tricks and Technique!

Brent "Captain Crash" Allen's, author of Motorcycles, Life, and…, website where you can view his "60 Second Lessons" and order DVDs of his videos.

With Daryl Makk, Comedian and Riding Enthusiast

In 2007, Daryl returned to the sport of motorcycles after many years absence. Renewing his love for riding in 2008 he started booking comedy tours in the summer months so he could travel by motorbike, thus combining three things he loved: comedy, motorcycles and travel. On April 26, 2008 all of this came to stop when a hit and run driver ran Daryl off his motorcycle. With broken bones, unable to travel plus several shows having to be canceled, everything he enjoyed was taken away.

Rather than let it get him down Daryl decided to start a tour with a safety message: “Share the road and wear your gear” and the Web-TV show The Planet Tour was born. No interference from network TV. Its real, raw video entertainment from Daryl's travels.

Motorcycle Forum

A Very Active Network of All Types of Riders

Join me here for some lively discussion and fun. This is one of those Internet spots where although you've never met many of the members you feel like old friends. There are general, brand, repair, vintage, touring, etc.  discussion areas. Got a problem with your 70s CB? Get some answers here. Have a road story you want to tell? Tell it here. Want to brush up on your technique? Get some great input here. A great cross-section of riders and bikes are represented. You might even bump into Captain Crash here.

RoadBike is a great magazine that features all kinds of bikes along with tours and industry news. Missed an issue? Try this site for product reviews and stories from past issues, alogn with blog entries from RoadBikes stable of writers..

If you like the idea of adventure touring, here is a website and blog where you can follow a couple "lads" bound 'round the world. This is not some corporate-sponsored event, but just a couple guys on their own on their way across the globe who are willing to share their story with us as it happens.

Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club

Do you own a vintage Japanese bike, something say, earlier than 1986? Do you love UJMs (universal Japanese motorcycles)? Do you dream of "Dreams"? Keihin CV carbs? Superhawks? Water Buffalos? Knobby tires and cafe racers? VJMC is a great resource for information, inspiration, and fellowship with other lovers of old Japanese bikes.

Another great motorcycle museum (Jay Leno called it "one of the best museums in North America.") can be found in the little town of Maggie Valley, in North Carolina, south of the Smoky Mountains and north of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

This museum in the charming valley town of Maggie Valley is spectacular. It features hundreds of motorcycles, along with vintage cars, from America's past. These are all American made bikes, and you will find them strewn around the huge museum building set in actual-sized "dioramas" suited to each particular bike—WWII military bikes are set in a recreated military depot, hill climbers are set up on a sand hill smack in the middle of the musuem. This is not the spit and polished Barber Museum with flawless examples of rare bikes; it is a down and dirty, bikes as they really were, unrestored condition kind of exhibit—which has its own charm. The owner takes great pride in the bikes and in riding. He entered two in the recent "Cannonball Run" race for bikes made in 1915 or earlier, from Kitty Hawk, NC, to Santa Monica Pier, CA; and the day I was there was riding one of them merrily around the grounds. One of the bikes took third. This is a must-see and if you are from the east coast, do it soon; the museum will be moving to Colorado Springs soon, perhaps as soon as next year (2012). And did I mention this great place is surrounded by the beautiful Appalachian Mountains, close to the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Cherohala Scenic Skyway, and the "Tail of the Dragon"? Do you need any other excuse to go?