20 • January 2026 • Powersports Business www. PowersportsBusiness. com

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Tracy McIntyre has been a licensed motorcycle dealer since 1985 and is currently owner and operator of Moto El Paso, a 70,000-square-foot powersports dealership in El Paso, Texas. Moto El Paso represents CFMOTO, Aprilia, Vespa, Piaggio, Moto Guzzi, Royal Enfield, Moto Morini, and it has been the No. 1 dealer in America for Aprilia, Hisun, and Tao.

BY CHRIS OFFICER ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Tracy McIntyre isn’ t just in the business of selling powersports vehicles from his Moto El Paso dealership, he’ s in the business of setting records— and he’ s not doing it alone. His latest adventure … a borderto-border motorcycle ride from Mexico to Canada with his daughter Ashley, who happens to be just 14.

The story of Tracy and Ashley’ s recordbreaking ride actually begins in 2010, when Tracy first caught wind of Scooter Cannonball, a competitive, multiday, point-topoint touring rally for street-legal scooters. He proposed the idea of competing in the event to his son, Matthew, who was 14 at the time. But both Tracy and Matthew had bigger ambitions and decided to do their own cross-country scooter ride.

Tracy’ s father also joined the trip, and the three traveled to Florida, put their wheels in the ocean, and made their way to California.

“ My son and I rode Honda SH 150 scooters, and my dad rode a [ CFMOTO ] 800MT,” McIntyer recalls.

The five-day, 102−hour trip started in Jacksonville, Florida, and ended in San Diego, California. The trio set several world records, including most generations riding cross country on a motorcycle, the youngest motorcyclist to ride ocean to ocean, and others.

During their cross-country excursion, Ashley was still too young to make the trip. However, that’ s not to say she wasn’ t preparing for what was later to come. Ashley says she was first introduced to two-wheel power when her dad would take her for rides on the front of his scooter when she was just two. By age five, she already learned how to ride her own motorcycle.

“ My favorite thing about riding is that it’ s very relaxing,” she says.“ Whenever I get on, I feel less anxious— it’ s very freeing for me.”

By the time she was old enough, Ashley had her own ambitions to do a similar long-distance motorcycle ride, and since her brother had already gone coast to coast, she figured, why not this time go border to border.

“ Ashley has been riding two-wheel motorcycles since she was five, and riding regularly since then, but riding 1,500 miles is a whole different animal,” Tracy says.“ So, what we did to prepare was go on weekend rides, 300− 400 miles to get used to it.”

After around five weeks of preparation, Tracy mapped out a route, connected with a friend who would follow with a truck and a trailer carrying five backup bikes, and marked the calendar.

On July 16, 2025, Tracy, riding a 2024 CFMOTO 800NK, and Ashley, on a CFMOTO 300SS, started their ride at the Mexico-U. S. border crossing in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Their route would take them up through the

tip of Texas, back through New Mexico, up to Colorado, and across Wyoming and Montana, before ending at the Morgan Station border crossing in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The ride throughout the Southwest part of their trip went seamlessly, Ashley recalls.

“ The most memorable part of the ride was definitely the views,” she says.“ The skies were extremely beautiful, and the weather was great the whole way.” Well, that is, for the most part. Heading into Colorado, Tracy and Ashley both remember mentioning how great the weather was the entire trip. But, as irony would have it, that’ s when the weather started to turn.

“ The only part of the ride where I was concerned was in Colorado,” Ashley says.“ We were getting hailed on and were freezing. We had to pull over and wait it out in the chase vehicle.”

But the bad weather eventually cleared, and the two were back on the road without feeling too much deterrence.

“ Even then, we were positive. We weren’ t going to turn back, so I’ d say I stayed confident the rest of the way there,” Ashley says.

But weather wasn’ t the only hurdle on their way up to Canada. Construction work throughout Montana caused some road congestion, and a little off-road riding was mandatory. Ashley also avoided a couple of close calls— running over a large pothole and knocking off her side mirror on a road pylon— both incidents, she was able to hold on and not fall off her bike.

“ My 14−year-old daughter is one tough cookie,” Tracy says.

When the two eventually made it to their Canadian destination, the total trip time— not just ride time— was under 56 hours. Tracy says the ride broke several world

Ashley McIntyre started riding motorcycles at the age of five. By the age of 14, she made her longest motorcycle ride yet— a 1,500-mile trip from Mexico to Canada.