Ain't No Pillion

RevZilla is running a contest right now where readers can talk about what touring or adventure riding means to them. Check it out!  http://bmwmoarally.com/motorcycle-adventure-blog-contest and www.RevZilla.com . Of course this got me thinking about why I ride, and what adventure riding means to me. It’s a great segue into how I’ve been feeling since returning from our motorcycle trip [...]

If you ride a motorcycle, you’ve heard it all before: “How can you ride those things? They’re so dangerous!” ER employees call motorcycles donor-cycles, and common sense among the non-riders of the world is that motorcycles are extremely dangerous, blah blah blah. As riders, we get it all the time, and we mostly ignore it. [...]

With the recent funding coming through for the trip, we’ve been ordering a LOT of things for the bikes and ourselves to get fully outfitted for being on the road. I’ve spent much of today combing around for other things to buy and caught myself in this uncharacteristic consumer attitude. I started thinking about things [...]

We’re nearing the final stages of gearing up for our big trip (hopefully leaving at the beginning of December!) and so we’re picking up the last bits of kit that we’ll need for the trip. We’ve got pretty much all of our motorcycle gear (although we still need to figure out winter-weight gloves) and I [...]

Bummer. We were planning to do the PDR but an unplanned trip to the emergency room last Friday has grounded me from riding. Long story short, I had an abscess on my tailbone that had to be lanced and drained, and there’s a long process for healing. I’ve got to see a surgeon for follow [...]