Free Wheelin'

Manually Acquired Positioning Systems Just For Us!

Find Your MAD Map and Make Your Way
Choose which road trips are going to be the most fun and the most memorable! Reference the on-map listings for points of interest: the great outdoors, eateries, and roadside attractions. With about 30 scenic road trips on each State MAD Map, 5 on each City MAD Map, and packs of MAD Maps for journeys, you have many options for each day you have to explore - whether it’s a day trip or an epic summer adventure.

 

Mad Maps

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

Find your state’s quietest route...

If you need to go for a long ride to give your mind a break, these roads are the ones for you. This map depicts the lowest-trafficked route in every American state, and of course, makes note of where America’s quietest, loneliest road is located. Spoiler: It isn’t Nevada. Can you guess where, based on this photo?

Loneliest Roads

Car Chase

The BikeRiders

Early in Jeff Nichols’ film, "The Bikeriders," the director references "The Wild One" (1953). Late in the film, he gives a nod to "Easy Rider" (1969).

Although there was only 16 years between those two movies, they established iconic “biker” images of two very different generations; the first being a post-WWII and Korean War cohort, and the second springing from Vietnam-era counterculture. Nichols’ screenplay tells the story of a Chicagoland motorcycle club caught up in that same convulsive generational change.

The Bikers

Now this is VERY different...A Blue Knights NJ IX AMA-Sponsored Ride, Pig Roast, Vendors, Activities, lots of fun...oh, and you can go skydiving too!

We have NEVER heard of a motorcycle event like this!

Music will be provided by Ruckus (the band, not the little Honda!)

Book your Skydive today!

Cop Drop

In my experience, there’s nothing more infuriating and disruptive than a dead battery. Like the time my 8,500-watt generator battery died in the middle of an ice storm, causing us to lose power for a week.

Because my wife worked from home, a running generator wasn’t a luxury. Even with a full-size 12-volt car battery charger and a portable jump starter, I had to use the pull cord to get this monster fired up. My first purchase — after replacing the battery, of course — was a battery maintainer.

Equally frustrating was the time my SUV had a slow electrical drain or “parasitic draw” that killed the battery every five or so days if it wasn’t driven. I kept a trickle charge on it until I figured out a loose ignition switch was keeping the vehicle ON.

 

Chargers

Backroads Magazine Current Edition

Rolling Thunder

Progressive

Bluebird of Bitterness

BMW RA Rally

August 29 – September 1, 2024
Fryeburg Fairgrounds
Fryeburg, Maine USA
  

BMW RA Rally

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Jake Shimabukuro

Jake, one of the first artists ever to go viral on YouTube, has reinvented the ukulele for the 21st century. There’s not a genre he can’t handle and he leaves audiences breathless. Here he’s live from The Tracking Room in Nashville. Welcome to Real Music TV, a global streaming service focused on live performance, on stage and in the studio, offering you a close-up view into the craft and process of making and playing music. Join the website for access to all of our content! - www.RealMusicTV.com

 

Jake Shimabukuro