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  • Tidy Tai From Tampa Bay

    Tidy Tai From Tampa Bay

    You would have seen this man before. His incredibly unique style has made him instantly recognisable, and a fine ambassador for the DGR ethos. Meet Tai Truong. Co-owner of vintage motorcycle collective, Ronin Vintage, and host of DGR Tampa Bay in Florida.  Tai’s life is all about riding and bringing people together through motorcycling. Both…

  • 2019 DGR Wrap Up Video #3

    The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride presents to you, the third instalment in our series of Wrap Up Videos for 2019! Featuring 20 rides, in no particular order, we look forward to sharing more beautiful cities and its people in our next Wrap Up Video, coming to you soon! Thank you to the incredible cities featured in…

  • 2019 DGR Wrap Up Video #2

    The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride presents to you, the second instalment in our series of Wrap Up Videos for 2019! Featuring 20 rides, in no particular order, we look forward to sharing more beautiful cities and its people in the next Wrap Up Video, coming to you soon! Thank you to the incredible cities featured in this video,…

  • 2019 DGR Wrap Up Video #1

    The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride presents to you, the first instalment in our series of Wrap Up Videos for 2019! Featuring 20 rides, in no particular order, we look forward to sharing more beautiful cities and its people in our next Wrap Up Video, coming to you soon! Thank you to the incredible cities featured in…

  • DGR 2019 Highlights

    With The 2019 Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride prize competitions ending, we can happily announce all winners of the prestigious Top Fundraiser prizes, and the famed Gentlefolk Prize winners, along with our incredible top pillion fundraiser! 2019 has been a thrilling year, with the event raising over $5.8m USD for prostate cancer research and men’s mental health…

  • The Search: Kirsten Midura’s Story

    The Search: Kirsten Midura’s Story

    Have you ever felt alone? Kirsten has. She travelled from Portland to New York, leaving behind her family and friends in search for something more. Well, she found it in motorcycling. Kirsten is now a fundamental part of the DGR NYC community, and not just during the dapper season. When top fundraiser, Vincent Nicolai, had…

  • Top Fundraiser, Christoffer Andersen

    Top Fundraiser, Christoffer Andersen

    The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride of 2019 is nearly upon us. Every year, incredible folks from around the world band together in support of men’s health. Now, this might seem like it’s starting out like every other story, but I guarantee you, it will not end that way. Why? Because this is a story we have…

  • Programs We Fund: Resilience Grows Here

      Resilience Grows Here (RGH) is a community that fosters the health and resilience of veterans across their lifespan. RGH operates a number of initiatives designed to assist returned servicemen in feeling valued and understood by their communities and having a place to gather and support each other, outside of traditional therapies.  Mental illness has…

  • Getting to Know DGR Host, Bob Lock

    We all participate in DGR for our own reasons. Giving, fighting, remembering – it’s a cocktail of reasons that for many is intensely personal. But what we forget, is the community of riders around us that ride for their own versions of what we feel. We ride together for so many reasons, and today we’re…

  • Eric Hendrikx: One Moment Can Change It All

    Eric Hendrikx: One Moment Can Change It All

    If you’ve taken a glance at our social posts recently, you will have seen this man grace your screens as a DGR 2019 Global Ambassador. You would probably know him by his thrilling action sports and lifestyle journalism, writing for some of the largest known publications, such as Playboy, Rolling Stone, and Revolver. Eric Hendrikx…

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