ASM Student Saves 16-Year-Old from Fiery Crash    We received this message from Joe Amato, who took Basic and Advanced classes at Penmerryl—Ride the Farm in Virginia in April 2024. Just four months later, he used the information he learned to save a 16-year-old. Here is Joe’s accounting of what happened.  While driving home from...Read More

Picturesque Day until the Turkeys It was a picturesque day for our group ride, a charity event, which made the group quite large. Riding in the middle of the pack, we suddenly slowed down, sensing an incident at the front. It turned out that the leaders spotted a group of large turkeys on the road...Read More

I have just completed the ASM ‘Crash Course for Motorcyclists’ held at Chirnside Park and would like to pass on to fellow motorcyclists that this is an excellent course, very well presented, and focused on motorcyclists and our needs. As a Ships Master and lecturer, I have the misfortune of having to attend many First...Read More

Not every crash that happens is life-threatening. Regardless, the situation could have been worse if trained bystanders were not present to help. This story was sent in by Bill & Vicky Barr from Missouri After this happy picture was taken of participants in the 20th Janey’s Ride in Liberty, MO, a motorcycle crash happened.  Fortunately,...Read More

Our club was on a planned ride, the day was beautiful and we had a very large turn-out. As is our custom when we have a large group to manage, the other Road Captains and I split the large group into two separate groups with about a quarter mile gap in between, so cars that want...Read More

This is Doris Weber.  This week I had the privilege of talking to a woman who owns a blue motorcycle, that within one year’s time saved and took her son’s life.  Let me explain. Dalton was a young man who suffered from depression for most of his life.  The last ten years were especially grueling for...Read More

This past weekend one of our riders went down on Route 17 in Vermont. He was able to get back up and get his bike going, he said he was fine. (You know guys-they want to shake it off and keep going.)  A little while later, he began not feeling well.  We stopped, he got...Read More

When seconds count, the helicopter is only 15 minutes away Several years ago, while I was in Sturgis for the annual bike rally, I took a casual ride down Vanocker Canyon Road toward Nemo. I stayed on Nemo Road northwest heading for Highway 385 to Deadwood. It had just stopped raining and I pulled over...Read More