_{TLDR: A Conversation with Jeff Nash | BMW R 1200 GS Review | A Conversation with Lili Dobert | A Note About Cycle World}

Hey riders,

This issue touches on one the major reasons I started this whole journey - I wanted to connect new riders with attainable motorcycles to get started, while sharing the stories from the road. Our bike review covers the last GS you can wrench on without a laptop, and I hope it motivates some of you to hop on facebook marketplace and hunt for one this weekend.

Unrelated, if you have not checked out the FORUMS section on our website, I highly recommend it. After every motorcycle review that I do, we add the corresponding forums associated with that bike. You just search at the top of the forum page and they will all pop up.

Happy Thursday yall!

-Zach

Publisher of American Moto Co.

Jeff Nash is Klim's Mid-Atlantic sales rep, an AMA Vintage Days national trials champion, and the guy who helped get Amanda Knapp ready for the Legacy Lap. He's spent his whole life in the powersports business, and the stories prove it: a 1952 Indian Chief with the clutch on your foot, a borrowed Cessna, and field medicine in a Baja monsoon. We sat down to hear all of it. Read more…

Not the liquid-cooled one from the Starbucks parking lot — the air/oil-cooled boxer BMW built from 2005 through 2013, and right now the cheapest big BMW worth owning. No radiator, no coolant, shaft drive, and a motor that cares about neglect, not miles. We break down Hexhead vs. Camhead and the three things to check before you hand over a dollar. Read more…

Lili Dobert drove past the same motorcycle class for thirty-five years before she signed up at fifty-three. Ten years later she'd gotten happily lost in the Himalayas with the Women Riders World Relay and rolled out in the first female-led Legacy Lap at the Isle of Man. Ask her about the best ride of her life, and it's not the one you'd guess. Read more…

Cycle World, the oldest motorcycle magazine in America, is winding down after more than sixty years of road tests, race coverage, and stories that got a lot of us into this in the first place. That deserves a nod, not a victory lap. But the riders didn't power down — they just lost one of the places that told their stories, and that's the whole reason American Moto Co exists. Read more…

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– The American Moto Co. Team