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Ken Aiken

Shamrock Tour® - Rutland, Vermont

Jul/Aug '04 Premium Content

Shamrock Tour® - Rutland, Vermont

No longer summer, not quite autumn - on impulse I stopped by Vermont's newest motorcycle dealership, Lucky's Motorsports. With the Beemer more than a little ragged-looking after my crash in the Berkshires, I was hoping to acquire a photogenic factory ride for Shamrock use. And as luck would have it,

Western Massachusetts

Mar/Apr '04 Premium Content

Western Massachusetts

Adventure is going into the unknown. Even on familiar roads, I can never anticipate what will be seen or experienced. Nor can I predict how it will all end. As my bike dove into an impossibly green canyon, these thoughts arose superimposed on beautiful images of the landscape and analysis

Up North Michigan

Nov/Dec '03 Premium Content

Up North Michigan

The dark, narrow pavement defined by nothing more than white stripes at the edges winds through the deep shade of the forest canopy. Occasionally I catch glimpses of water far below. Impossibly blue, it stretches to the horizon and sparkles in the late afternoon sun. Homes are tucked away, nestled

Sep/Oct '03 Premium Content

Coastal Maine

Frosted with whitecaps, the cold sea reflects a slate-gray sky streaked with silver. The horizon has been lost. Looking east across the North Atlantic, my eyes gaze into infinity as the wind whips the tang of salted air into my nostrils. I turn up the thermostat on my Aerostich jacket

Shamrock Tour® - Litchfield, Connecticut

Jul/Aug '03 Premium Content

Shamrock Tour® - Litchfield, Connecticut

This Shamrock is about quality, not bragging rights about how many miles were covered in a day. It's also not about horsepower or performance since most of the roads are posted for dawdling between 25 and 45 mph. This tour is about relaxing and enjoying the beautiful scenery of rural

New York: The Finger Lakes

Winter '02 Premium Content

New York: The Finger Lakes

Hot, so hot. Gusting winds keep leaning the bike over, but provide no relief. It's open country. The pavement just keeps rolling over hills and across valleys and I catch myself starting to nod off. I have to find a place to stop that's out of the sun and get

Shamrock Tour® - Farmington, Maine

Summer '02 Premium Content

Shamrock Tour® - Farmington, Maine

There is no better time or place to tour in northern New England than when those fleeting days of Indian summer coincide with the crowning glories of fall foliage. There's beauty to fog, especially during the transition from night to day. As the sun breaks through, pearlescent tendrils, rising from