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2026 CMC Euro Adventure Pt. 2

Posted on By Szabi Erdei
Breakfast Views from the OBB NightJet Train | Photo: J. Breinholt

Day 2 – Train & Motorcycles – Feldkirch (AT) to Andeer (CH) (https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZiPpJaqfLNuGDvUc9)

Sunday morning saw us rolling in to Feldkirch right on schedule. We were woken up about 2 hours before arrival with our pre-ordered breakfast. After wolfing down the food, we watched the mountainous landscape of Austria passing by until we were finally at our destination. The unloading was just as interesting as loading was. We setup our bikes, repacked our gear and kicked off the day in search of coffee. Continue Reading >

2026 CMC Euro Adventure Pt. 1

Posted on By Szabi Erdei
The Author, Finding Some Good Cell Service to Check Those Maps | Photo: Jacob Breinholt Private Collection.

We are all back in one piece from Europe and after some reflection here’s a quick recap how it all went down. I include my perspective but adding some room here for Jake to correct the record from his perspective as we did straddle the invisible line between Type 2 and 3 fun several times. From my perspective, I’m happy to report that I tied the epic saga with the sassy Triumph and the score is 2-2 as I managed to stage a comeback from the early years’ beatings of mechanical issues and stupid drops that got us off on a rocky start with the ol’ British broad. Continue Reading >

2026 CMC x 2wTj Event Recap

Posted on By Jake
Soaking Up The Late Season Goodness In Stamford, With the Crew

Anyone who has spent any decent amount of time in the Catskills could tell you that this time of year could be sunny and 70s, white-out blizzard conditions or anything in between. Good fortune prevailed last Saturday when we drew a perfectly crisp sunny autumn morning, that heated up nicely (but not too hot) and lasted all of the way into early evening. Continue Reading >

Epic Euro Trip 2025

Posted on By Szabi Erdei
The Author Stands Over the Soča River

Here I am, back in NYC, reflecting on my recent annual moto pilgrimage to Europe and so I decided to give my writing muscles their annual stretch. So many things happened in a year!

If you read last year’s piece, I came back from my trip to live a bikeless life for the foreseeable future given my accident and its multi-dimensional aftermath. Happy to report, as of May this year I’m back to motorcycle ownership. Tariff scares, supply constraints and luckily my wife’s support all aligned and allowed me to replace my ’22 Hypermotard SP with…. drumroll… a ’24 Hypermotard SP! I could write a very long controversial piece as to why the Hypermotard is the best bike ever, some would agree, most wouldn’t. It’s a preference and I just can’t think of not having one, there are a bunch of other bikes I would love to add to the Hyper in the future though! Continue Reading >

Epic European Alpine Adventure

Posted on By Szabi Erdei
Perfect Riding Conditions in Stelvio

I’m not a writer, far from it, but the esteemed editor in chief of this prestigious publication allowed me to submit my most recent adventure so thanks in advance for bearing with me here.

My father and I had been slowly reconnecting since my late teens after a pretty ugly divorce between my parents and the common ground for us happens to be machines, especially motorcycles. Last summer he and I rode an organized trip to the Balkans (Serbia – Bosnia – Croatia – Montenegro) and while we had some technical issues on that trip (maybe another article in the future if there’s demand?) the overall outcome was that we had a great adventure of riding stunningly beautiful, less traveled roads that wind through countries long ago dismissed by the west. To keep it interesting, we did all of this while battling the eccentricities of machines that were each north of 2 decades in age. Coming off that trip we agreed that we would do it again the following year. Continue Reading >