RIDE APPALACHIA

Spring has sprung here in the Appalachian Mountains as the leaves return and the flowers bloom along our 52+ trail routes here on the Backroads of Appalachia throughout Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee. I think I speak for all riders across the country when I say we are all ready to ride and we are all glad that old man winter is going away after a long season of our Iron Horses being corralled. All of us bikers are ready to make some thunder and some more memories as another riding season begins to take shape. Here on the Motorcycle side of Backroads of Appalachia, the all volunteer Whitley County Motorcycle Group Road Crew is already putting the miles down to prepare for our biggest season yet as riders across the country start to discover our Backroads of Appalachia Mobile Application and the best riding in the country, on the road less traveled, here in the Central Appalachian Region. We want everyone who comes here to our backyard to have the best and safest riding experience possible and we train and check our routes each year to make sure that is exactly what happens. This season the Backroads of Appalachia/WCMG team will attend 6 major motorcycle rallys and host over 30 events and rides for charity as we continue to spread the word and bring the bikes here to the small towns across our trail system helping them economically develop after years of hardship since the coal industry left us.

So

Who Is

the Whitley

County Motorcycle Group(WCMG) and why

do we do what we do? The Whitley County Motorcycle Group(WCMG) is a Motorcycle Riding Group and Community located in Eastern Kentucky. We are part of Backroads of Appalachia, a 501c Non Profit, and our mission is to create and develop the best riding/driving routes and motorsports events in the Appalachian region. We help the small towns and small businesses across the Appalachian Region economically develop through Motorsports Tourism. We are a public Facebook riding group composed of members from the local area as well as around the world. All of our events are for charity and everyone is welcome to join us regardless of what you ride or what other groups you belong to. If you love to ride and you are looking for information on what Kentucky and the Central Appalachian Region has to offer join us by finding our group on Facebook. We are patches with a purpose and as grassroots as it gets and we are on a mission to help those in need as well as an entire region with every trail route we map, event we host, and charity we support. We know there are many places you can go this year and many other groups out there you can belong to but in our riding group everyone is welcome and what makes us unique is that you can ask questions and gain information about our events, rides, routes, and local area directly from the riders who live here in these mountains. We are a community by bikers for bikers regardless of what you ride and our motto is “It doesn’t matter what you ride, as long as you ride.” Come and ride with us this year in the place we call home by attending one of our events or by using our Backroads of Appalachia GPS-Enabled Mobile Application to start your Appalachian Adventure today without the traffic or high cost of travel. Every time you come here and ride you are helping an entire region begin to recover and prosper with every stop you make along the way and trust us there are many amazing places to see here. No stop and go traffic in these parts, Just open road, plenty of curves, and the incredible scenery and history that only exists right here on the Backroads of Appalachia!

Let’s Ride Appalachia! - The Backroads of Appalachia Journalism Staff