By day he's an IT guy at a bank, by night he is a man building custom Ducati's that will blow your mind. His latest bike took five and a half years, weighs 310 pounds wet, and makes 112 horsepower at the rear wheel.

Who is Nick? A Denver rider who came to motorcycles late, got told he was doing it wrong, and stayed anyway. He hosts the Airhead247 SWB Video Podcast and created the Airhead Misfits. He owns four old BMWs and has been on the internet defending strangers' taste for about a decade. Photo Credit: Ben Maloy Welcome back to Pit Stop, the corner of American Moto Co. where we pull over to explore the craft, the culture, and the creators who keep the raw, unfiltered soul of motorcyc

Who is Yvan LeTourneau? A Manitoba rider who puts his eleven year old son on the back of a 2016 Kawasaki Concours and disappears across Canada for three weeks at a time. Last summer it was seven thousand kilometers. The adventures were originally planned by Yvan but as his son Oliver has become more involved, he is planning the trips now. When Yvan and his wife had their boy, they got the same speech everybody gets. "The world basically told us, well, you gotta give up your c

Who is Mark Augustyn? He’s one half of the team behind Mimi and Moto, the children's books bridging the gap between riders and their kids. Breaking down stereotypes about motorcyclists and building the pathway for the next generation to get into the sport. This October it will be ten years since the first book sold! Welcome back to Pit Stop, the corner of American Moto Co. where we pull over to explore the craft, the culture, and the creators who keep the raw, unfiltered soul

Who is Jen? The founder of Hightail Hair, a helmet-mounted solution that prevents tangles, wind damage, and helmet hair, so you're ride-ready in seconds. (That's directly from their website) She had a brutal battle with a hairbrush so she built a product that would help tens of thousands of riders. Jen was on a break from riding her own bike and was on the back of her partner Jon's bike, hair up in a bun, and she did not even know her hair tie came out, until they got where t

Who is Tyler Golletti? A Maine rider who takes a 1921 Harley J across the country, four thousand miles in sixteen days, on three gears and an oil system that dumps on the ground behind him. The first time he tried it he made two days out of sixteen and went home feeling like a fraud. He now has that motorcycle tattooed on his hand…. Photo Credit: Eddie Rapid Photo There is a version of this story where Tyler quits, and he would have earned it. In 2023 he lined up for the Mot

Who is Tom Gosselin? Twenty years in the bicycle industry before he ever threw a leg over a motorcycle. A hardtail Sportster built in thirty days on fifteen hundred dollars, four and a half acres of Maine woods, astrophysics nerd because of Indian Larry, and a job with the BMW MOA. Tom lives in the balance between BMW and custom motorcycles, and the reason we started talking at all was the show he is putting on with the BMW MOA at Barber, which runs inside BMW Motorrad Days.

Who is Samantha? Legally blind since birth, and the passenger who throws herself across a sidecar platform at ninety miles an hour. She races with her husband Eric and uses his body movement as her guide to the track. Samantha is legally blind, born with vertical nystagmus - a fault in the nerve that connects the eye to the brain that keeps her eyes in constant motion. As a child she had to be taught how to see; without vision teachers, she says, her eyes would have atrophied

The 34th running at Mid-Ohio: six racing disciplines in three days, 80 acres of swap meet, Freddie Spencer leading the Lap for History, and a barrel race loss to a couple of kids.

Liza Miller and Wendy Crockett spent twenty-four days inscribing WRWR 2026 across the map of the United States. The certificate landed at Mid-Ohio four days later.

A salesman in Nashville with seven bikes in a two-car garage, and an airhead bobber he pulled out of a Kentucky backyard with a tree growing through the swing arm.

Airbrush artist Amanda Brisebois of Black Widow Paint talks pink zebra Ducatis, fish-head helmets, hailstorm rides, and taking the badass out of riding.

A firefighter on the Isle of Man who came to racing late, lives in a van to chase the Mountain Course, and only feels alive when death is on the table. Stories from the Road meets Blake of Unrestricted Isle.

Who is Lili Dobert? A psychotherapist from upstate New York who got her motorcycle license at fifty-three and ten years later rode into history on the first female-led Legacy Lap at the Isle of Man. Four bikes in the garage, a pit crew of engineers who don’t ride, and a habit of saying yes before she knows how it ends.

Motorcycle media just lost one of its own. Cycle World, the oldest motorcycle magazine in America, running since 1962, is winding down. The magazine stopped publishing in 2020, but the entire Cycle World arm of Octane has closed down as as of July 7th. Whatever you thought of it, that’s more than sixty years of road tests, race coverage, and stories that got a lot of us into this in the first place. That deserves a nod, not a victory lap. So here’s the nod. Thank you to every

Who is Jeff Nash? Jeff Nash is Klim's Mid-Atlantic sales rep, an AMA Vintage Days national trials champion (that's the trophy in the basement), and a guy who has spent his lifetime in the powersports business. If you've seen his Wheelie Wednesday videos, you already know he rides like a man who never got the memo that you're supposed to slow down. He came to us through his work with Amanda prepping for the Legacy Lap, but he stayed because he turned out to be a gold mine of s

Who is Carolynn Sells? She's the only woman to ever win a race on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course. Seventeen years later, she still talks about it like it was something she just fancied having a go at. She's a race-school instructor, a Manx Grand Prix radio commentator, the mother of three teenage girls, and, in her own words, "just me." Here's the thing you need to know about Carolynn before anything else: she does not think she's a big deal. "I'm just me," she told me, e

For the first time, women led the Isle of Man TT Legacy Lap. They rolled out of the grandstand at half nine on Sunday, May 31 — a front row of record holders, racers, adventurers, and one single mom from Douglas who dreamed the whole thing up — and behind them came fourteen miles of motorcycles.

Ashley is a British Columbia-based photographer, rider, and the eye behind Yeah Boy Productions. She got her start with a disposable camera and a grandmother who documented everything, and has grown into a storyteller who shoots motorsports, backcountry sledding, and the moto scene. This time, we're turning the lens around.

JB races vintage oval tracks on a 1942 Harley-Davidson WLA — no brakes, by choice. The open road demands respect, but a vintage oval track demands a unique kind of madness. For most riders, modern motorcycling is an exercise in absolute control, finely tuned machines pinned to the absolute limit of what they are capable of. But for JB, the thrill of the ride starts where the safety nets end: combining a 1942 WLA, and his absolute refusal to use brakes. Welcome back to Pit Sto