Ain't No Pillion

When your riding partner yells at you: “Pull over right now!” – do it. This happened to me last Wednesday as the SO and I were riding over to a friend’s house for a weekly dinner engagement. It’s only 3 miles away, and we were just a couple of blocks away when the command came [...]

I don’t think I’ve formally announced it here yet, but Kay and I have bought a Ural sidecar rig for bringing the dogs with us on motorcycle trips! The idea is that we’re planning to do a RTW with the dogs in the sidecar, but first the rig has to get here (it’s currently on [...]

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 [...]