{"id":12667,"date":"2025-04-21T12:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=12667"},"modified":"2025-04-20T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T18:34:23","slug":"discovering-vahna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/discovering-vahna\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering VAHNA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A screen grab from the VANHA website.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

I was in the waiting area of couches, chairs, and refreshments at Fay Myers<\/a> while they were putting my new front tire on the V-Strom and changing the oil and I noticed this magazine there on the table. VAHNA it was called, and they had a bunch of issues. I had never heard of this so I picked one up to look at.<\/p>\n

It’s a motorcycle magazine, one I had never heard of, and what a nice magazine. Super high-quality reproduction on heavy paper and perfect binding. (“Perfect binding is a bookbinding method where pages are glued together along the spine, and then a cover is wrapped around the glued spine, resulting in a softcover book with clean, trimmed edges”–per the AI search results.)<\/p>\n

Opening it up I was amazed. More photos than writing, it was full-page-spreads and double-page spreads of fabulous photos of motorcycles, mostly out off-road. It was gorgeous. But the writing was really good, too. Heck, I pulled out my phone and shot pictures of several pages as a quick and easy way to save the writing that I could see would be great to use in the quotes I end this blog with each time.<\/p>\n

I also noted why Fay Myers has all these issues sitting there: toward the back of each issue was a full-page Fay Myers ad.<\/p>\n

So I was really interested. What the heck is this magazine? When I got home I sat down at the computer and searched. First of all I looked for the meaning of VAHNA. I expected it would be an acronym for some motorcycle trade organization. Nope. Here’s the AI explanation: In the context of Indian mythology, “vahna” refers to a creature or vehicle that serves as a mount for a god. It’s a Hindi word derived from Sanskrit “vaha,” meaning “to carry.”<\/p>\n

OK, so that’s cool. What a great name for a motorcycle magazine. We do ride the mounts of gods. We all know this.<\/p>\n

But still, what is this magazine?<\/p>\n

It turns out that VAHNA<\/a> is more than a magazine. They make films and host a film festival. They’ll be launching a podcast this summer. They had a film festival tour that came to Denver for two days in January but I never heard about it. Darn. I’m going to get myself on their email list.<\/p>\n

And the magazine? I did some searching before I found their site and a lot of people were saying the magazine was no longer being published. But as far as I can tell they are wrong. Or maybe it has gone online only. Not sure. But the site has articles posted as recently as March 5, 2025.<\/p>\n

You should definitely check this out. I’d suggest doing so on a desktop computer just so you can fully appreciate the photography–a cellphone screen just won’t do it justice.<\/p>\n

So you can file this under “gosh Ken, thanks for telling me about this.”<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

Feet on the pegs, head in the clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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