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Realigning great motojournalists. What's your favorite source of news & inspiration? - Ray - 03-31-2023
In the last BMW MOA News, we heard from Nick Ienatsch - the original editor of Sport Rider - about turkey basters and hand position. Nothing new, but a true joy to read and reaffirm.
A couple years ago (May 27,2021), Mitch Boehm became editor of the AMA monthly, American Motorcyclist. Maybe it's just because guys of a certain era have eaten the same dirt and have had similar experiences that we connect with their stories, but I found this month's editorial by Mitch Boehm on motorcycle trade shows to be spot on as it carried his inspiration and positive outlook.
(His skills have reached the point that even the Biden administration used him for a press release.... Mitch Boehm Writes a Biden Press Release. We Truly Have Seen It All. Now.)
And now Mitch has recruited John Burns to do a monthly bit of inspiration as a contributing editor. You might remember him from writing and editorial duties at Cycle World or Motorcycle.com. I know some of you saw this one - https://www.motorcycle.com/new-model-preview/your-2023-kawasaki-h2-sx-se-has-arrived-darling.html.
I notice that Bradley Adams, Andrew Treavitt, and Don Smith still get bylines for cycleworld.com/sportrider, but a lot of the articles are written by "staff" and occasionally read like ChatGPT. (And sadly, no, I had to look it up, but the GP in GPT does not have any relationship to our love of two-wheeled racing. - Generative Pre-trained Transformer)
With shutdown of some of the major print rags, I've seen some good collections of veteran writers gravitate to other magazines, both print and on-line, but sometimes hard to find.
Any favorites from the forum we need to check out?
RE: Realigning great motojournalists. What's your favorite source of news & inspiration? - MrVvrroomm - 03-31-2023
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/by/136-zack-courts
Spent a week riding with Zack in Europe in 2015.
I find his reviews entertaining.
RE: Realigning great motojournalists. What's your favorite source of news & inspiration? - Grumpy Goat - 03-31-2023
(03-31-2023, 03:14 PM)MrVvrroomm Wrote: https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/by/136-zack-courts
Spent a week riding with Zack in Europe in 2015.
I find his reviews entertaining.
So do I. And I like Ari's articles just as much. They make a great team.
RE: Realigning great motojournalists. What's your favorite source of news & inspiration? - Ray - 04-01-2023
(03-31-2023, 05:25 PM)Grumpy Goat Wrote:Great examples. Veteran jounralists from Motorcyclist .(03-31-2023, 03:14 PM)MrVvrroomm Wrote: https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/by/136-zack-courts
Spent a week riding with Zack in Europe in 2015.
I find his reviews entertaining.
So do I. And I like Ari's articles just as much. They make a great team.
https://www.webbikeworld.com/a-conversation-with-ari-henning-zack-courts-and-spenser-robert-about-working-for-revzilla/
They've gone on to be big multimedia personalities. Still enjoy their writing as much or more than the videos and podcasts. (S0metimes, they nail a common experience with just the title - example below - "Anxiety and atonement at the police rodeo")
Got some inspiration for a future trip while watching from the back of my exercise bike, Zack and Ari ride a new Trail 125 and old CT 90 (Another project bike for Ari) to Point Barrow. Photography and video provided by another old refugee from Motorocyclist Rober Spenser.
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/riding-honda-trails-to-the-northernmost-point-in-america
RE: Realigning great motojournalists. What's your favorite source of news & inspiration? - Ray - 04-01-2023
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/anxiety-and-atonement-at-the-police-rodeo
RE: Realigning great motojournalists. What's your favorite source of news & inspiration? - Grumpy Goat - 04-08-2023
(03-31-2023, 10:54 AM)Ray Wrote: In the last BMW MOA News, we heard from Nick Ienatsch - the original editor of Sport Rider - about turkey basters and hand position. Nothing new, but a true joy to read and reaffirm. ...
Having a backlog of bedside reading, I just finished Nick's article and was quite pleased to read what he said about covering your brakes ... totally aligned with my practice and for the same reasons. For me I tend to have to make a conscious decision not to cover my brakes and I typically only do this on interstate riding or riding on good backroads where visibiity either side is very good.
As you say it is great to have solid sources of information and inspiration available, especially if they are in our own BMW Owners News magazine, where all sorts of articles and approaches to writing can be enjoyed.