Welcome to the Jungle

 A limited-edition racebike that hints at the future of KTM’s 990 RC R

If you love your trackdays and have $1,000 lying around, you may want to get down to your local KTM dealership extra pronto. That’s because a thousand bucks is the minimum deposit for the revamped and seriously exquisite KTM RC 8C, the most focused and uncompromised production machine built for the racetrack.

Cycle World

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

August 26 -29th

We don't think you have much to fear about Lucky 13!

After a year off the 13th Backroads' Summer Squeeze Rally will head back to Southern Vermont, and we have rooms blocked at both the Gray Ghost Inn and the Kitzhof Inn - both just down the road from each other on Route 100, in West Dover, Vermont.

This rally "squeezes" in some great riding during a part of the week that sees the roads of Vermont far more open and free of traffic.

It is simply great riding and so much more fun!

There will be a couple of very neat routes, and maybe a bit of fun & games along with them, along with some evening porch guitar time. 

Book today, as our room block is limited and they will go fast!

Summer Squeeze Rally

Marquez

As the definitive guide to the world’s hidden wonders, Atlas Obscura is dedicated to telling these stories. In our new series, Get Out Of Town, created in partnership with Brand USA, host Oneika Raymond travels to four of these amazing destinations around the country, and has a whole lot of fun along the way.
 

Atlas Obscura

Is it Time to Downsize?

What is the best style of bike to get as we age? Is it a trike, an adventure bike, a sport touring bike, or is a Goldwing the thing to get? In this video we take a look at that subject and I hope to get your thinking about your riding future.
 
Motorcycle riders, as a group, are aging. The median age is now around 50 and the majority of motorcycle related deaths occur with riders over 40. As we age we lose strength, stamina and reaction time, so is it time to think about moving to a smaller bike

Downsize Machines

When your cat leaves a mangled mouse on your pillow, he wants you to know that he’s a conqueror. In fact, he is part of a race of conquerors, the successful descendants of a winding journey in which cats made use of humans to conquer the world. Now researchers have used genetics to create the most extensive map ever made of cats’ path to worldwide domination, published this week in the journal Nature.
 

Cats Rule

Backroads Magazine Current Edition

Moroney's

Progressive

Bluebird of Bitterness

The Gray Ghost Inn
West Dover, Vermont

The Gray Ghost Inn has 26 individually decorated guest rooms with private baths. We are a family owned bed and breakfast hotel located in Southern Vermont, located near Haystack, Mount Snow, and Stratton Mountain golf courses, as well as the Brattleboro Country Club.

But for Backroads, it has been a second home, and one of two home bases for this year's Summer Squeeze - we hope to see you there.
 

Gray Ghost Inn

Cousin Dupree

Steely Dan

We said it was going to get darker with Becker & Fagen - but Cousin Dupree is, well? It's your little cousin, Dude!

Steely Dan is one of the most iconic bands of the 20th century, and their album “Two Against Nature” won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. However, not all of their songs are what they seem. “Cousin Dupree” is a perfect example of a Steely Dan song that is cloaked in ambiguity and mystery.

It also has one of the best play of words...

She said, "Maybe it's the skeevy look in your eyes 
Or that your mind has turned to applesauce 
The dreary architecture of your soul" 
I said, "But what is it exactly turns you off?"

Cousin Dupree