The Republic of Texas International Boundary
May 27, 2021 The grand tours I am doing this year lured me out for a quick run to the Louisiana border. I did a fairly straight ride away from home for a day...
Author: Richard Swim
Texas Gulf Coast and HoT Rally Finish
April 29, 2021 The weather was looking sketchy for my ride to the coast and to College Station to do photo work for Paul Tong’s Heart of Texas Rally. Any other time, I would...
Big Bend Country – 2021
April 14, 2021 I had been wanting to ride Pinto Canyon Road for years. It is a slightly-bad back country road, and the sport touring bikes I had been riding would not be a...
The Bottom of Bois d’Arc Lake
March 8, 2021 The Lone Star BMW Riders proposed a ride to the bottom of the new Bois d’Arc Lake in northeast Texas near Windom. Sounds logical to me. We gathered in McKinney and...
Defective Gene Pool RTE 2021
February 27, 2021 The annual gathering of the defectives was held this weekend in Allen, TX. A trial was held Friday night finding Paul Pelland guilty of possessing the gene driving him to ride...
Motorcycle Grand Tour of Texas 2020
December 1, 2020 Just what I needed… Another excuse to ride. I came across a ride-when-you-want rally hosted by David Canada. He came up with 50 boni scattered around Texas, including one moving bonus...
2020 HoT Rally Finish – Rawhide
October 17, 2020 The Heart of Texas long-distance motorcycle rally is typically scheduled in the springtime. Need I explain further that the COVID-19 pandemic has totally screwed over our lives this year? But, Paul...
Celina RTE 2020
September 5, 2020 The Celina ride to eat is typically scheduled in April with riders from all around the country converging on this small city. But with the Coronavirus pandemic continuing to wreak havoc...
Big Money Rally 2020
January 1, 2020 It’s another new year and another new Big Money Rally. Reno John and his team again spent countless hours to come up with some new themes for this year’s long rally,...
Been There, Done That
Justin Philipson’s HW3 rally had been canned due to the ongoing pandemic. Riders still wanted to ride, including me… Peter Green came up with an idea to keep us on the bikes, ride a...
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