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- 1 2 Dave Preston, Managing Team Ride West, Peckhammer TV, March 29, 2010, archived from the original on November 8, 2012, retrieved April 6, 2012
- ↑ McDougall, Connie, "Her first exposure to motorcycles came years ago as a passenger sitting behind her boyfriend. Arms wrapped around his waist, she blithely...", The Seattle Times , retrieved April 6, 2012Originally published as "Wind, women and wheels ; No longer are they content to be back-seat riders; they want to be the ones driving:" [Fourth Edition], p. G6.
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ↑ A Salute to Dave Preston, Sound Rider!, Spring 2007, archived from the original on 2012-06-06, retrieved 2012-04-06
- ↑ American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)– Dave Preston: Breezy Rider, American Road, June 17, 2011, retrieved 2012-04-11
- ↑ "Man turns a passion into a second career", The Herald (Everett) , March 24, 2008
