I had a wonderful time riding the Royal Enfield on March 17 - 19 of this year. Wednesday's ride took me from your headquarters in Scottsdale to Prescott and back to Surprise for the night. The ride through the moutains was spectular and lots of fun on the bike. I was very impressed with its performance and reliability. Attached is a picture of the bike at one of the scenic turnouts on the way to Prescott. The other picture of me on the bike is at our vacation home in Sun City Grand. Thursday took me to Carefree and Cave Creek via route 74 - a very scenic byway. I took many pictures of the desert, but the attached one will be the subject of a future watercolor. The final picture is of the great owners and operators of AZRide.
Thank you for the great service in arranging the rental and high quality support provided throughout. I look forward to my next visit to Scottsdale and future rentals with AZRide. I will enthusiastically recommend your shop to my friends and colleagues.
Well we made it back to Alberta, Canada safe and sound and just wanted to send you guys a big thank you for the service we received on our recent rental. You run an excellent operation and I wish you every success in your business and personal lives.
I have attached a couple of pictures I took on our ride. If you have any customers that want to do a nice 370 mile day trip, this is the route we did on March 24th.
Left our hotel in Litchfield Park in Goodyear, north on 303 loop and 60 to Wickenburg, 89 to Prescott, along 69 to Interstate 17, 260 to Payson, south on 87 and 188 to Miami, then the 60 back to Phoenix. The route had a bit of everything, scenic mountain passes, twisty roads, leisurely sweeping curves, and neat little towns along the way.
I also have attached a picture of my 2005 Suzuki Boulevard 1500 C90T. I rode it to work today and the current temperature is 32F with a high of 54F. Quite a difference from the beautiful weather in Phoenix!
It was a pleasure to meet you and if we find ourselves in the Phoenix area and feel the need for a ride we will definitely use your services again.
Rio Verde Road was a nice warm up and Tonto National Forest was an exceptional ride.
Good people always stopped to ask about the bike.
The cactus spiked landscape gave way to several layers of tan-blue mountains, all calling me to see more.
I had a blast. Thanks for the memories, Josh
FYI…These pictures were taken from my cell phone camera. I didn’t expect to rent a bike on my vacation, so the black jacket was purchased at Goodwill for $10. Between gas, rental and jacket, I walked away under $125
This is a little late but I'm finally getting around to it! My fiance came all the way from Tokyo this past February to come see the great southwest, and I thought the occasion called for a date on some Enfields. We were going to be in the Phoenix area for a few days and were delighted to find out that AZ Ride had Royal Enfields available for rent as we ourselves both own one our own Enfields. I hopped on their cherry red 500 C5 while my partner rode out on their Military 500 Bullet G5. Both were beautiful bikes, a breeze to handle and most of all a lot of fun! We didn't have much time to go very far on them, but we used them as our Phoenix transportation, and got a chance to take them out to nearby Bartlett Lake, which is a fun little drive.
We were too busy admiring the sexiness of our bikes that we forgot to take many pictures of the scenery, which was also picture worthy!
Enfields handle just as well on dirt roads as they do on any streets.
Every where we parked we would have people come up to us and ask us questions about the bikes. Enfields are real jaw droppers, and everyone seems to get a kick out of seeing us driving around on them.
My little C5 had a slight electrical malfunction but the good folks at AZ came to our rescue and were nice enough to loan us another bike for the day until they could get the kinks worked out of the C5. (hey, if there were no kinks, then it wouldn't be an Enfield!) Although me and that BMW had a bit of a fight with each other, it was Ryo's excuse to let him drive it, which he was pretty excited about. Of course he is pretty excited to drive anything new with two wheels, haha! Though I must say that the Enfield suits him much better!
We went all over Arizona, but the one little town that stood out the most to us was little Bisbee. We stayed at the Shady Dell, which I can't recommend enough! The couple that runs the place is absolutely wonderful. They restored several vintage trailers; each one decorated with authentic vintage items from the 50's and early 60's. They even had a record player and old working black and white television sets in each one! Check them out next time you're in Bisbee.
Thanks for the fun AZride! So glad to see you keep those Enfields around. We will definitely be back in the future.
I leave you with some snapshots of us on our old iron barrels that unfortunately had to stay home!
It was a great pleasure to rent from you again. My last time was too long ago in December of 2007. You both are exceptionally nice, polite and very professional. Both times I have ridden by myself so no photo's of me. However my riding did take me to some beautiful spots.
My first day was from Monica's suggestion of riding the Mount Lemon highway outside of Tuscon up to Mount Lemon. You could almost call it the "Tail of The Dragon" of the west. It was awesome to ride on clear roads with snow on both sides of me. Great views also !!!!!
My second day was up to Prescott, Jerome, Cottonwood and Sedona. I stopped and had lunch in Jerome at the Mile High Grill & Inn. They serve a great prime rib sandwich. The place has a great character and the owners were very nice. Check out the dollar bills folded into various shapes under the glass in the bar.
I was in Tempe for three days for business meetings and found I had one afternoon free. Since I was considering buying a 2010 BMW, I searched for local rentals and found AZRide.com. Totally unannounced, I drove to their office having no idea what I would find. Luckily, it turned out to be a perfect visit. Even as a "walk-in," Monica made me feel instantly welcome, and I was on a 2009 GS headed for the SuperstitionMountains within 30 minutes. No hassle, no problems, just friendly, helpful assistance and advice. She even planned a limited 3-hour ride for me since that's all the time I had. That ride took me down some beautiful twisty roads thru the western edge of the Superstition Mts. My thanks to MCTours for a pefect afternoon.
