Good stuff…

Joe Gresh topping his tank prior to riding into the Gobi Desert.

I like to ride, I like to write, and I like to read.   My favorite reading always involves motorcycles and it’s been that way as long as I can remember.   Videos are okay, photos are cool, but a well-written piece about riding is just what the doctor ordered.   My favorite writers?   I like Dave Barr’s books about his adventure travels (Riding the Edge is easily the best adventure travel story I’ve ever read), my favorite magazine is Motorcycle Classics (a real magazine with lots of high gloss pages and real stories about classic motorcycles), and my favorite columnist is Joe Gresh.  It’s not just that I know Joe or that I’ve traveled with him; the guy is just flat good and his stories are funny as hell.  Consider this line from one of his first pieces about a ride to Alaska, when he and his dad performed major surgery on Joe’s Honda in an Alaskan dealer’s parking lot…

The dealership’s mechanic buoyed our spirits by saying things like, “Last time we ordered a part, it took six weeks” and “Two guys on motorcycles were killed by a grizzly bear a mile from here.”

If you want a free treasure trove, I found a compendium of Joe’s work online and you can get there by clicking this link.   It’s good stuff, my friends.  Enjoy.