Motorcycle Classics

Requiem for a Big Bear

ollowing publishing in 1985, readers wrote the editor to say how the trip inspired them by showing it’s not about having the perfect bike, but rather what you do with what you have. Learning that my pain and suffering had inspired others was unexpected and gratifying. Also after the issue was out, Larry Huffman invited me on his radio program, where I tried to explain why, exactly, I had made the trip and

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