Public Service Announcement

[RTRandy]

Well . . Not really, but it ought to be.

Surely some of you receive the Road Runner magazine ? Road Runner (http://rrmotorcycling.com/) It's pretty amazing in that it's printed on high quality paper and loaded with beautiful color photos from cover to cover. They have very few advertisements so the whole magazine is loaded with great articles about touring and great information about various motorcycles.

Each issue has a "Shamrock Tour" which is comrised of four different loops starting from a particular town, hence the clover leaf pattern intended to be made on four different days. This month features a ride out of Bakersfield, CA. In addition the back of the magazine always has a color map of that tour on four seperate pages intened to fit in your tank bag. Great maps!

This month also has tours of Northern Alabama, Maryland, Oregon, and Ohio plus an article riding off road in Egypt of all places.

The featured bike this month is a KTM Superduke and the MZ1000, plus there's a 16 page article on Vintage bikes.

In case you're wondering, I have no connection to Road Runner,and don't care for magazines coming to the house, but I'm thrilled when this one shows up. Just didn't want anyone to miss out.


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[RT_guy]

It gets better by the month. Christian has done a great job with it and it has become my favorite magazine.

[lorazepam]

I have been a subscriber since they first came out, and it is a really great magazine.
Some of the others may have a bit better writing, but Roadrunner does have more of the stuff I want to read. I like the tankbag maps too.

[Visian]

I like the tankbag maps too.

Second that! They also have a rollchart for those so inclined. Now... if they'd only have a web site with downloadable waypoints. you know... this is something that our articles in BMW ON could have... perhaps placed on our website so that people could download, print out and put in their tankbags....

This month's magazine was a great read... and I particularly liked the section on vintage bikes (although their interpretation is somewhat different than ours).

This month's editorial talks about fuel mileage, and the observation that most MC writers ignore these statistics... or don't weight them very heavily.

The editor asked for feedback on this subject... so I sent him an e-mail. We have exchanged several in the past... he is very responsive. I hope to ride with him someday because he lives not too far from me.

Ian