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Lawrence Makes AMA Supercross History with Season-Opening Victory In Anaheim

Hampshire receives early title boost with win in the 250SX West Class It may have been the opening round of the 2024 AMA Supercross season, but it didn’t take long for Team Honda HRC’s Jett Lawrence to show that he was up to the challenge of racing in the 450SX Class. In the main event,

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Motorcycle Group Get Your Groove On
Magazine News Riding

A Groovy Gathering

Midwest Women Riders Get Your Groove On event empowers and entertains By Debi Wilder What event has plenty of tie-dye and two-wheel fun? The Midwest Women Riders Get Your Groove On event, of course! The first time I attended the Midwest Women Riders Get Your Groove On (GYGO) moto event in 2021 in Woodstock, Ill.,

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Rick Sieman
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RIP Rick Sieman

December 11, 2023 By Mitch Boehm Rick “Super Hunky” Sieman has passed away at the age of 83, and for family, friends, colleagues and the entire motorcycle community, it is indeed a sad thing. Sieman was on the ground floor of the off-road motorcycle boom of the 1960s and ’70s, a sign-painter whose writing skills,

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Road Enduro
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RTP Revamped

The federal Recreational Trails Program (RTP), in place since 1991, now enjoys an important waiver that eliminates a longstanding roadblock — good news for all off-road riders December 5, 2023 (Story from November edition of American Motorcyclist) By Keaton Maisano More than three decades after its approval in 1991, the Recreational Trails Program (RTP) —

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Meriden MC
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Meriden MC Hits Century Mark

The Connecticut club traces back to 1923 Dec. 5, 2023 (Story from November edition of American Motorcyclist) By Keaton Maisano Six months prior to the inception of the American Motorcyclist Association in the spring of 1924, a motorcycle club in the city of Meriden, Conn., was taking its first steps on a century-long journey. The Meriden

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Magazine News VMD

Grand Marshal Historian

Since 1998, Allen Brotz has collected the signature of every VMD grand marshal November 1, 2023 (Story from October edition of American Motorcyclist) By Jack Emerson When Allen Brotz makes his annual pilgrimage to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, there’s one thing he never leaves behind: his trusty cloth. On the

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Magazine News VMD

Love At First Sight

Winning the Honda Elsinore auction at AMA VMD completed a half-century journey for one man October 17, 2023 (Story from October edition of American Motorcyclist) By Keaton Maisano Each year motorcyclists flock to AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days for a multitude of reasons: To participate in the vintage racing; some, to meet and talk with a motorcycling

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Magazine News Riding

Capital City MC Celebrates 110th Anniversary

Club stays strong and grows through changing landscape October 17, 2023 (Story from October edition of American Motorcyclist) By Joe Perfecto In the heart of downtown Sacramento, Calif., there stands an unassuming, little WWII-era bungalow, with the entryway overhang bearing the words CAPITAL CITY MOTORCYCLE CLUB, hand-painted in orange. On a given Friday evening, passersby

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Hall of Fame News

Reitwagen Revisited

Carlton visits own creation at AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame When one begins their journey through the vast catalog of items at the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum, the replica of Gottlieb Daimler’s 1885 Reitwagen is there to welcome them to the world of motorcycling. As one of the constructors of the replica, Jim

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Q&A: Zach Farmer and Nick Sands

Get to know the AMA’s new Government Relations Department staffers October 3, 2023 (Story from October edition of American Motorcyclist) By Keaton Maisano When the AMA set out in May to restructure its Government Relations Department, it created an opportunity to make some changes to the department in a continued effort to deliver on its

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