August 2019 cover of Rider magazine.

I just wanted to write and thank you and your staff, and especially Jenny Smith, for giving me a new interest in life. Why" While visiting my cousin in Michigan, her husband showed me an issue of Rider magazine and I was so impressed I immediately subscribed as soon as I arrived back home. I read every issue from cover to cover. I have ridden motorcycles most of my life, but as I was aging I thought it was time to start backing down a bit?until I read Jenny?s review of the Triumph Speedmaster and the Rider motto: ?Ride to Eat, Eat to Ride? (August 2018). I had been looking forward to each issue, reading the touring stories and feeling inspired. After reading her story I said, ?Why not me"? So, at age 71, I purchased a new 2018 Speedmaster, added a Corbin seat and bags and after about a year of planning (which is now!) I?ll be taking a 4,600-mile trip. First to the Bonneville Salt Flats to help a friend of mine run speed trials on a 1955 Indian, then on to Denver, via Rocky Mountain National Park. I?ll head south to Pueblo, then over to Highway 12 in Utah to ride through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. Then it?s on to Las Vegas to meet my wonderful and understanding wife. Will I make it all the way" Who knows, but as they say, it?s not the destination, it?s the journey.
So yes, thanks to all of you at Rider for providing me with renew...