Ashley Gracile wanted FreeRide to showcase the great distant roads of Canada & the United States. So it's no surprise that great places to ride like like Ontario’s Georgian Bay, Quebec’s Eastern Town ships and the Canada’s Maritime Provinces are featured along with Maine, Vermont and Cape Cod. We continue down the Eastern Seaboard to the Blue Ridge Mountains where we stop at Ashville Diecast in Ashville, North Carolina… the perfect place to start a collection of affordable but small motorcycles.
It’s also the starting point of our bike trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469 mile scenic road that actually begins in beautiful Virginia. Our story includes a side tour on one of the twistiest, windiest roads in the world The Dragon in Deal’s Gap NC. Later on we cross through the Great Smoky Mountains and into Southern Tennessee to the Sequatchie Motorcycle Resort.
But it’s not all rural .. FreeRide also tours Florida starting at Daytona Bike Week in Daytona Beach FL where we start our ride down the Atlantic coast and into Miami’s South Beach. Then its across Alligator Alley heading to Florida’s Gulf Coast where we stop at Sarasota and stunning Casey Key. This is a bike tour you’ll only find on FreeRide.
FreeRide… Informal, informative classic bike TV.
FreeRide - An Ashley Gracile TV Series
If you're a broadcaster contact our domestic (USA) or international distributors to arrange for a screening of any one of the 52 half-hour episodes of FreeRide, a best in class vintage motorcycle lifestyle TV series created and produced by Ashley Gracile. Released by GPI Content Corporation and available in HD with M&E tracks, FreeRide is a surefire ratings winner and audience pleaser every time it goes to air.
Reach out to FreeRide at: freeride@ashleygracilemotorcycles.com
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