![]() ![]() Even that nice old cover shot of model Tuttle! Several competing magazines have gone to a bi-monthly or quarterly schedule and poor artsy-fartsy design with big photos, lots of white space and coffee table appropriate covers. It has a little bit of all the reasons I love Rider. I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed and appreciated the May issue. It’s my privilege to contribute stories that, in some measure, speak to my fellow riders. Congratulations on 500 issues and counting. Fifteen years later, Rider is still the moto magazine that speaks to me. Then came the epiphany: “Bones, you’re a writer and a rider…why aren’t you writing for Rider?” So I looked up the Editorial Guidelines and pitched a guy named Mark Tuttle with my story idea on touring western North Carolina in search of BBQ ribs and twisty roads. I subscribed to several moto magazines, but Rider spoke to me. After college, I started my career as a writer and soon after bought my first motorcycle. Growing up, I was the English nerd who snuck rides on friends’ motorbikes because my parents wouldn’t let me have one of my own. Those old ads in the 500th issue (“Blasts From Rider’s Past”) brought back memories of reading about motorcycles I couldn’t have.
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