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Colorado Rider News and Motorcycle Rider News Merge to bring you more updates and events

February 15, 2022 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

By Laurie Montoya, Editor, and Publisher

Colorado Rider News and Motorcycle Rider News have MERGED to bring you a more regional and national look at motorcycle riding and what is going on in your area and nationwide. In March 2022, you will begin to see more diverse coverage, more writing contributors, and a more in-depth event calendar for those who take road trips and attend rallies all over the country.

What does this mean to you the reader? MRN will break down our articles and advertising by regions: West Coast, Rocky Mountain, Midwest, Southwest, and Northeast to still bring you the local coverage, but give you the ability to read about national news by region.

Audrey Paulus
Morning Stretch
Stretch is a new inspirational writer to CRN and avid rider in the biker community

Since 2018, Colorado Rider News has brought the Colorado powersports community great articles event coverage and focused on biker-owned businesses within our Colorado community. Publications have gotten slick and filled with so much advertising that you can get thru an issue in a few minutes. With the help of writers Audrey Paulus, Belt Drive Betty, and Morning Stretch with Stretch McClure our writers gave you the pulse and information you wanted to read about. Our success has resulted from our grassroots effort to go back to what Powersports publications used to be….things that matter to the rider.

As Editor and Publisher, it was vital to me to get motorcycle awareness out, keep riders safer on the road, and hopefully give them things to think about when or how they ride. This type of monthly publication isn’t easy, and being smaller our publications stayed more with local advertisers who helped get our message out. It was more important this publication wrote the stories we wanted to write and that readers wanted to read.

In 2020, we launched Motorcycle Rider News in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a year-round motorcycle riding and ATVing community with an old western flare. There are so many national parks, including the grand canyon to visit. Most traveling to California or the west coast tend to ride right thru, but our publication focused on great overnight day trips that riders can take to see all that Nevada and Arizona have to offer.

Shannon “Dazzlin” Ventoro
Nichol Jackie Zamora

MRN worked with great writers who had the pulse on the powersports community, such as Shannon “Dazzlin” Venturo and Nichol Jackie Zamora, who brought to the publication the charitable aspect of what the riding community does every week to help!

The pandemic brought many challenges to keeping these publications going, and our online publication has seen rapid growth and increased followers on social media. Therefore, we have decided to merge the publications and publish 2-3 hard copy issues each year and bring more content thru our website and social media.

We want to THANK each and every reader for their commitment to CRN and MRN and we hope that this new venture will enable us to bring you more and better content, and reach a larger demographic of riders.

Filed Under: Breaking, From the Publisher, Laurie Montoya, Magazine Tagged With: colorado rider news, Motorcycle Rider News, Shannon Venturo

International Motorcycle Shows Announces 2022 schedule

February 14, 2022 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

FEBRUARY 14, 2022 BY MOTORCYCLE RIDER NEWS 

Santa Monica California – Progressive IMS Outdoors, the nation’s leading motorcycle tour connecting enthusiasts with a wide array of Powersports brands, today announced the dates and locations of its 2022 tour. Produced with Progressive Insurance as the title sponsor for the 13th consecutive year, the eight-city series will revisit three markets that hosted the indoor version of the International Motorcycle Shows (Colorado, Arizona, and New York) and return to five markets that IMS Outdoors visited last tour (Chicago, Pennsylvania, Atlanta, and Northern and Southern California).Tickets will go on sale on March 24 at www.motorcycleshows.com.  

Heading into the sophomore year, the experience-focused event will bring back the popular two-wheel and four-wheel demo programs, eBikes, shopping, custom and vintage bikes, and music, while also offering more chances for enthusiasts to engage with brands and their riding community, from ride-ins and races to speakers and charitable efforts.

“The launch of IMS Outdoors was an exciting challenge that armed us with learnings we look forward to applying on the 2022 tour, including an expansion of the highly successful demo program, growing our electric footprint, and adding more experience-focused offerings,” said Tracy Harris, SVP of Progressive IMS Outdoors. “The Powersports industry is amid a transformative period in time as new brands emerge, such as bespoke and electric companies, and we welcome an all-new generation of riders. We are so proud to cater our event to the changing needs of the industry and reunite everyone from new riders and kids to life-long enthusiasts.”

2021 Tour Results: 

  • More than 35,000 motorcycle demo rides were taken across the eight-city tour
  • Nearly half, 44%, of attendees were new to riding or prospective riders; IMS is a catalyst for industry-wide growth and is driving new customers for exhibitors and event sponsors
  • The introduction of SxS and eBike demos were well-received and indicated the community’s growing interest in adjacent products
  • Influenced by IMS’ award-winning Discover The Ride program, three different programs put more than 1,600 adults and teens on a motorcycle for the first time
  • Nearly 1,700 kids rode two-wheeled balance and battery-operated bikes with Strider, Harley-Davidson, and Husquvarna

Harris continued: “We could not be more excited to announce this year’s tour schedule, which was built in partnership with the industry’s leading OEMs. Our team is working diligently to produce an even more robust event that brings the love of riding to life and look forward to sharing more details regarding activations and participating brands with our community soon.”

IMS 2022 Schedule: 

  • COLORADO
    The Ranch Events Complex
    June 17-19, 2022
  • CHICAGO
    Goebbert’s Farm
    June 24-26, 2022
  • PENNSYLVANIA
    Carlisle Fairgrounds
    September 16-18, 2022
  • NEW YORK
    The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
    September 23-25, 2022
  • ATLANTA
    Venue TBA
    September 30 – October 2, 2022
  • NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Santa Mateo County Event Center
    October 21-23, 2022
  • ARIZONA
    Westworld of Scottsdale
    October 28-30, 2022
  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA  
    OC Fair & Event Center
    November 4-6, 2022

Tickets go on sale on March 24 – save the date on your calendar and visit www.motorcycleshows.com for more information on the 2022 tour.   

Filed Under: Biker Owned Business, Business, Events, Magazine, Travel Tagged With: colorado rider news, Motorcycle Rider News, progressive ims motorcycle show

Letter From The Publisher Colorado Motorcycle Fatalities up 33% from 2019 and We are EXPANDING!

May 14, 2021 By Laurie Montoya Leave a Comment

May is Motorcycle Awareness month and a time for ALL RIDERS to work to get the awareness out to the driving community.  Yesterday I was asked to participate in a CDOT campaign focused on helmet use by riders.  Riding will always be about Freedom of the Ride, and individual choice, but it is clear that we riders cannot STOP drivers from driving distracted, we cannot STOP drivers from texting & driving.

While listening to the speakers, I was overwhelmed to hear that motorcycle fatalities were up 33%.  That means in real numbers that 137 motorcycle riders died on their bikes in 2020, up from 103 the previous year.  This is the largest number of motorcycle fatalities EVER in the state of Colorado.

I began to wonder as I was standing there, what can I do when I get on the bike and go out for a ride to ensure that I get home safe or survive if I get into an accident and the answer that kept coming into my mind was WEAR MY HELMET each time I ride.

This will not be the answer that many will want to hear, but the reality is that I have a family to come home to, I am a wife, mother and grandmother who wants to see my grandchildren grow up.  I will make the PLEDGE today to never get on my bike without putting my safety gear on to give me a better chance of surviving in the event of an accident.

To enter for a chance to win a helmet click here

I am pleased to announce that Colorado Rider News will be working with BikerDown and Rider Justice to implement a helmet giveaway each month  to those that might not be able to afford a new helmet or would like to upgrade to a better helmet.  See the ad in this issue of CRN to learn how you sign up for a chance to win a new helmet! Rider Justice will also work with Rocky Mountain Harley-Davidson to size and evaluate the type of helmet a rider wants to ride with. We thank all of the sponsors of this program.

4 years ago, Colorado Rider News was launched because our community had lost 2 of our publications in Colorado devoted to motorcycle riding.  Publishing this publication isn’t easy and takes tremendous commitment.  CRN with the help of many of our advertisers has grown in distribution and our success is because we have focused on biker owned businesses and all things Colorado.

We will premiering Motorcycle Rider News in the Las Vegas community in June of this year to continue that message and giving Vegas motorcycle riders a voice in the community.  Wish us Luck!

Laurie Montoya

Publisher

Colorado Rider News

info@coloradoridernews.com

Publisher, Colorado Rider News

Filed Under: From the Publisher, Laurie Montoya, Magazine, Promotion, Rider Justice, Safety Tagged With: Helmet giveaway, Motorcycle Rider News, Rider Justice, Rider Safety

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