Ain't No Pillion

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 [...]

We’ve been ruminating on our next big trip, and I’m getting excited about the idea because it looks like we’ve got a few of the major details decided. When we got home from this trip, Kay’s dog was “broken.” Some negative interaction he’d had with the dogsitters had turned him into a biter – and [...]

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 [...]

I purchased a pair of Sena SMH-10 Interphone Motorcycle Helmet Bluetooth Intercoms on June 2, 2010. I’ve used them for over 6 months now, most notably for 15 days on a 4-month motorcycle trip from Boston to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. (If you’re curious about the trip, you can check out the trip blog at: [...]

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. [...]