Our original adventure on Route 66.
After battling a relentless onslaught of charging system failures and sacrificing three separate stators to the roadside gods, the crew earned a mandatory recovery day in Las Vegas. No highway miles, no high-voltage alarms, and no helmets—just a localized mission to get our broken squad back on two wheels. Vegas had a completely different energy…
After battling a relentless onslaught of charging system failures and sacrificing three separate stators to the roadside gods, the crew earned a mandatory recovery day in Las Vegas. No highway miles, no high-voltage alarms, and no helmets—just a localized mission to get our broken squad back on two wheels. Vegas had a completely different energy…
There is a distinct shift in the energy of a road trip when you turn your front wheel away from the quiet desert tracks and point it directly toward the neon capital of the world. Yesterday’s run from Lake Havasu City to Las Vegas was a blistering, 105°F push across state lines, packed with weird…
There is nothing quite like a 4:00 AM alarm in a national park lodge, but when the payoff is watching the world wake up over the South Rim, you don’t complain. Yesterday was a massive, cross-desert haul filled with bittersweet logistics, blistering triple-digit heat, aggressive wildlife, and a bizarre piece of British engineering hidden deep…
If Route 66 has taught our crew anything over the last few days, it’s that the road takes as much as it gives. Just when you think you’ve sorted out the mechanical gremlins, the Mother Road reminds you who is really in charge. Yesterday was a wild mix of backtracking, chasing vanishing voltage, unexpected Hollywood…
There is a distinct shift in the air when you cross into the American Southwest. The horizons stretch out infinitely wider, the dirt turns a deep crimson, and the roadside history becomes beautifully surreal. Yesterday’s run from the neon glow of Tucumcari, New Mexico, to the iconic tepees of Holbrook, Arizona, was a massive milestone…
There is nothing quite like the freedom of the open highway, but when that highway is Route 66, “freedom” comes with a side of pure, unfiltered Americana. Yesterday’s ride from Stroud, Oklahoma, to Tucumcari, New Mexico, was a masterclass in why we choose to travel on two wheels. From roadside legends to roadside scares, this…
Every long-distance rider knows that the road doesn’t care about your itinerary. You can map out every mile, every fuel stop, and every hotel, but eventually, the Mother Road is going to test you. For our crew, July 31st will forever be known as “Thursday”—a day where time blurred, mechanical gremlins struck twice, and the…
If you want to experience the true, unpredictable spirit of a cross-country motorcycle trip, you don’t look at the days where everything goes right. You look at the days like July 30th. This was a 270-mile saga stretching from the woods of Missouri to just short of Tulsa, Oklahoma—a day defined by failing charging systems,…
The waiting is finally over. Kickstands are up, the exhaust notes are echoing, and the great Route 66 run is officially underway. Day one is all about breaking in the gear, adapting to the weather, and discovering that on a motorcycle road trip, there’s no such thing as a wrong turn—only unexpected detours. We ran…
