Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to Spring!

It's another Hermy’s Hpen house, just in time to break those winter blues! We’ll be serving a delicious hot breakfast around 10:30, so make the trip out and enjoy food, in-store specials, exciting new models, and hopefully some warmer temperatures!

Hermy's Open House

 June 19 - 22nd, 2025

You didn't think we'd NOT be doing some special things in celebration of our three decades exploring the backroads of the USA, did ya?!

The format might be a little different but the riding, the venues, and the things we will toss in during the ride will be pure vintage Backroads Motorcycle Magazine!

We promise a most excellent time, and you should book your rooms now... today - we mean now - as they are ARE ALMOST GONE.

Stay tuned for more news as it rolls around the twisties at us!

Ride Safe. Ride Smart. Ride the Backroads.

Backroads Summer Solstice Rally

Proficient Motorcycling

One of the most iconic liveries in motorsport history is finally on a MotoGP bike.

Janaki Jitchotvisut from Ride Apart has a superb piece on Trackhouse Aprilia and Gulf wearing the most iconic racing livery ever. (IMNSHO)

Wow... Hey, Trackhouse - please make a 1/12 replica!

We especially love the video that she attached to it.... truly the most famous Gulf Racer ever!
Watch the video and turns it up to 11!
 

Ride Apart

The Modern Classics Show 2025
March 29 & 30th • 9am - 4pm

Martin Moto • Boyertown, PA
 

The Modern Classics Show 2025- The Reunion you've been waiting for. After a five year hiatus your favorite indoor bike show is back and better than ever!
Enjoy a collection of 60's through the 90's modern classics. Part motorcycle show, part social event and part pop-up museum, but 100% fun! 
The Modern Classics is a motorcycle show not to be missed! From the bikes you grew up with to the rare and exotic, Modern Classics has something for everyone.
Join Martin Moto for this two-day event, March 29th and 30th from 9am-4pm both days. 
FREE ADMISSION
Located at Martin Moto: 1037 Unger Ln. Boyertown, PA 19512.
Food trucks, entertainment, and more to come!
 

Modern Classics

Bluebird of Bitterness

Benny's Bodega, Backroads' chosen charity, has its 3rd Annual 50/50 going on RIGHT NOW! $25 will get you in the drawing for a potential $25,000, to be drawn April 5!
You gotta be in it to win it (but don't have to be present to win), plus helping out some of the greatest people on this planet.
Click picture or link below to buy tickets.
 

Benny's Bodega 50/50

Progressive

Alpinestar Tech-Air® 5 PLASMA

Protective Performance Offering a Comfortable, and Adaptive Fit

Designed to meet the evolving demands of modern motorcycling safety, the lightweight ultra-slim profile of Tech-Air® 5 Plasma provides an “invisible under the jacket” feel, offering riders unrestricted movement and an exceptionally comfortable and adaptive fit.
 The Tech-Air® 5 PLASMA's user-friendly design enables quick airbag removal for vest cleaning, and provides effortless reassembly of the System. Servicing key components, including gas inflator replacement, is also quick and easy.
 

AlpineStar

Flower Road Trip

New Jersey, USA

As spring reaches its peak through New Jersey, it's impossible to avoid seeing the flowers springing up all around us. Some are more welcome than others - c'mon, dandelions in my front yard, take a day off - but they all add to the unique beauty of the Garden State. This is also the time when we're all ready to get out of the house and shake off that winter inertia, and there's no better way to do that than a spring flower road trip in New Jersey. 

 

Only in Your State

Jump into the Fire

Harry Nilsson

You can climb a mountain, you can swim the sea
You can jump into the fire but you'll never be free

This tune came up in conversation the other day...

Superb everything on this...but little known Rock Facts...

Bass player Herbie Flowers audibly detunes his instrument. Herbie also has the iconic bass  line in Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side.

Jump into the Fire gained further recognition following its inclusion as the soundtrack to a pivotal scene in Goodfellas.

Also, drummer Jim Gordon, who also played on the Layla and Other Love Songs album, as well as the Beach Boys Pet Sounds, and Steely Dan's Rikki Don't Lose that Number and Any Major Dude (Pretzel Logic) - was jailed, and then committed to a California Mental Institution for the murder of his mother, where he did in 2023.

You can jump into the fire but you'll never be free...

Jump into the Fire