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Preparing For An Iron Butt Ride

As I have recently learned, proper preparation and training for a distance endurance motorcycle ride is essential. It’s quite comparable to a runner’s routines in advance of a full 26.2 mile marathon. While the Iron Butt Saddle Sore 1000 is the “introductory” ride of the Iron Butt Association’s array of …

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Iron Butt Legend John Ryan Dies in Crash

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Iron Butt legend John Ryan, whose exploits were celebrated by author and long distance rider Melissa Holbrook Pierson in her book “The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing – Long-Distance Motorcycling’s Endless Road,” died in a motorcycle crash on I-78 in New Jersey on Sunday. …

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