A Return To The Wild Side of Motorcycling
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BMW’s EnduroGuard Suit
Waterproof First, Then Crash Proof BMW’s new EnduroGuard Suit A motorcyclist’s riding suit has to serve many functions that automobiles do without a thought. Climb inside a car and you’re protected from both the weather and the objects outside the car that you might brush up against, say in the case of an accident. Without …
Thinking Outside The Box
Using your adventure motorcycle to get your body from point A to B on the map can be mighty boring, unless you’re riding the lesser-straight roads and trails in between — it’s built for so much more than that. Same thing can be said of your hard cases. Using them just for hauling your supplies …
To Adventure Or Not. That Is The Question.
Everyone kept saying “get the big bike, its better” and until you look for yourself at the differences between the standard and Adventure models, and decide if they’re what you need, opinions mean nothing. Today I made a choice between two of the best out there. The decision on which bike I’d buy for my …
BMW R 1200 RS Review [Motorcycle Mag]
Hidden between our youthful discretions and our elderly wisdom is a grey zone rife with confusion… if you manage it poorly. Or excitement if you’re a lucky one. And while the choices in life might not always be yours, the machine you ride (possibly the most important one) is one that is. And one you …
Ruta Del Sol
Bucaramanga to Santa Marta | Nov. 28 | 328 miles | Today was our longest day of the tour… and the one with the greatest challenges to both mind and body. Rick had warned me about the weather at the coast. While I sweated through the humidity in Cali, he suggested I get used to …
Farm to First Class
Villa De Leyva to Bucaramanga | November 27 | Proving our predictions right, the road out of town was dirty, wet and bumpy…. the roads, not the girls you perv… leading us from the village to Acrobuco where we spotted a roller derby team practice and the main artery road between Tunja and points North …
A Thankful Day
Villa De Leyva Rest Day | Monday, November 26 | With no intention by the organizers of this tour, our first rest day (at the perfect time btw) fell on Thanksgiving. And although Cristbol Columbus came to “my” America, he and his cohorts had also traveled south to “this” America… but they don’t celebrate the same …
Exit Through the Salt Mine
Bogotá to Villa De Leyva | Monday, November 25 | First a little motorcycle maintenance and some technology over breakfast, aka learning how to type the correct “a” over Bogotá, hooray… on!
Congo into Bogota
Honda to Bogotá | Monday, November 24 | Today’s ride (Day 3) was an easy one, only 100 miles from Honda to Bogota, but it was one of the most dangerous… aka fun. Juan thought is much like a video game and Lia just opened her head and smiled… calling it a dream and noting how …
Into the Mist
Salento to Honda | Monday, November 23 | Our second day in the saddle began after a little side trip to the farm. Our guide wrangled together one of the local jeeps (regularly on tourist hire) to deliver those of us not recovering from a hard first night to a coffee plantation for a morning …
Introduction to Green
Cali to Salento | Monday, November 22 | Day one in Colombia started with a few flipped switches… from languages, to currencies and eventually schedules. After a familiar landscape at the Marriott hotel, we get picked up and delivered to the garage nearby where I find out that there’s no support vehicle on this tour… …
Cali to Cali, Colombia
California to Cali | Monday, November 21 | On the heels of the Long Beach stop of the International Motorcycle Show, a long day steeped in visiting friends, corporate reps and new model releases, I wing off this month towards the equator… to my 19th country and first visit to South America. There I will …
The Missing Link
BMW S1000XR Review from Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada
No Rest For The Weary
Barely recovered from my last tour, a circumnavigation of Morocco with Edelweiss Bike Tours, I’m writing one story while preparing for the next one… In just over a week I’ll be flying off to South America and joining Motolombia on their giant loop through Colombia tour, I’m very excited for this one! Don’t screw it up Fonz. Lest you make enemies …
The Next Wild West
Don’t go there, you’ll die. Tell anyone that doesn’t live within a day’s drive of the U.S./Mexico border that you’re going on tour in Mexico and that’s the reply you’ll get. They couldn’t be more wrong however, and will probably expire their days wishing they bought that motorcycle when they were young and had taken …
Big Bikes in Baja
The trip was not only a success, it was amazing and now, you’ll can read about the ride in Motorcyclist! Check out the RawHyde Big Bike Adventure for your own epic adventure!