Trees And Dogs

Though it’s still cold in some parts of the country, most of you are getting to ride in decent weather. As we see it, besides offering you a variety of feature bikes and tech every month, we should also be encouraging you to ride the wheels off your bike by showing you cool and fun places to go. To that end, we’ve asked you, our readers, for submissions about your favorite roads and places to ride on and to. Some of you have responded by sending in great stories, which have appeared in AIM. Unfortunately, the photos for some of the articles weren’t usable. Since we can’t run the tour without good photography, we’ve had to pass on features we really wanted to run, articles we felt you would have enjoyed. That had to be corrected. Our fix is to run an article on how to shoot a magazine-quality tour story! After all, writing and shooting a tour like a pro is no different than doing maintenance on your bike. If no one shows you the right way to do it, how will you know?

I asked our resident master of the lens, Bob Feather, to put together this month’s How It Works. With the ease that he shoots most of our bike features, Bob goes through the basic dos and don’ts of photographing a tour for us as well as yourself. After all, it doesn’t suck to have a great pictorial record of your ride through Yellowstone Park. You know, the one you’ve been planning for the last eight years. What a shame it would be to finally get to do it and then not have a wealth of quality photos to look at later on. The smells, sensations, and other memories come quickly to mind when looking at a group of excellent photos.

But tours are not the only articles we’re hoping to get. What about your favorite eat stop? That little stand you’ve been getting those fantastic dogs from since you were a kid. Don’t be selfish, let the rest of us in on it! When I first started riding across the country on my way back from Sturgis, I used to stop at a cool little dog joint on Route 9, which runs right along the top edge of Iowa. I looked forward to stopping there every year. It’s closed now, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who looks for great spots like that when on the road.

So how about it? Where’s your favorite eat stop? Joe K. and I are hungry!

See you on the road.

Chris Maida
Editor
chrism@americanironmag.com

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