Colorado and New Mexico Motorcycle Road trip is perhaps the best way to discover the back roads, small towns, and friendly people of these states. For the first 3 days, we rode with about 30 friends to Florence for the August weekend. Then for the next 8 days, three Harley-Davidson motorcycles,  four of us — me, my husband and another couple — leathered up and pulled on our motorcycle boots for a 1,400 mile road trip.