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I will continue this report here rather than where I started it in the Tiger forum.  My bad.  Six months into my Central and South American journey and I’m in Costa Rica currently. I call this a ride for water because I am with a charity called Motorrad Angels which does a lot of clean water...

Leaving in a day or two for a trip through Central and South America on this new Triumph Tiger 900 Rally Pro. I will be stringing together a series of clean water projects with local volunteers in each country.  I’ve been working with this group, Motorrad Angels, for three years so it’s not...

Please move to a better place if necessary.  I’m editor of XLADV (big bike forum) and volunteer with Motorrad Angels.  I’m currently helping in Colombia some Venezuelan refugees.  We are in need of riders who are able to help with cyclone Idai relief efforts in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.  Please...

I found this 2011 990 ADV last summer with only 3,000 miles and had never been off road.  I thought it might make the perfect project bike. Yes, it was THAT clean!

There is a local event called the LA Barstow to Vegas or LAB2V ride that happens every fourth Friday and Saturday in November.  It's a two day event that covers about 500 miles.  Day 1 is from Palmdale to Barstow and Day 2 is from Barstow to Vegas.  It used to be an open desert race but the...

Any Wild Dogs up for a little March Moto Madness? I thought I'd call your attention to an event that was done last year that turned out to be quite successful https://marchmotomadness.com/ This started as a rally in Tennessee and was put together by a group loosely calling themselves the "GS...

I've been riding in Death Valley usually twice a year for a few years now.  I usually go in the Fall and Spring when the temperatures aren't so hot.  This year I had 25 riders join.  We did probably four groups on two days and saw some really cool stuff. I made some chili this time and that was...

Prior to March of 2011, I had never ridden a motorcycle.  I had ridden Vespas in high school and college but that was it.  In November of that year I attended a riding school taught by Jimmy Lewis and it made a huge difference in my offroad skills. Jimmy Lewis is a racing legend who has won the...

I have heard a lot about this gathering over the years and I finally decided to attend.  Most of the riding I do is just weekend dirt/enduro/hooliganism in the surrounding 500 or so miles from my home in Southern California.  However, I have ridden a lot in Mexico and did a ride last year in...

Wondering if this has happened to anyone else?  It has happened to me twice now and a friend (Isaac Feliu) three times (his is a 2010 GSA). Last November I was riding in the desert, came to a stop to rest for a while and get a drink of water.  I went to start the engine and it wouldn't start. ...

There is a very large organization here in the States, BMW Motorcycle Owners of America (BMW MOA) that has kind of a sub group called GS Giants.  The MOA does a rally every year and the Giants do a little pre-rally ride that is more dirt-focussed.  It's more popular on our east coast and in the...

Took a quick two day trip down to Baja this past weekend with the girlfriend.  Baja is a two hour ride south for me and has a lot to offer.  The media here portray it as a drug cartel shooting gallery, but then that's what the media likes to do.  The Japanese think it's all freeway shooting here...

I had this ride planned and thought we'd have maybe 5 riders, then a friend volunteered to prepare two dinners and two breakfasts for a $30 donation to a charity, LostForAReason.org, and we ended up with 23 riders!  We ended up raising nearly $1,000 that will go to build a playground for some...

Zion National Park in southwestern Utah is where I took the gf for some two up riding.  I did this ride three years ago with my friend Jesse who organizes it.  They call it the "flying monkey" adventure rally because the place they originally had it overlooked an old rocket test facility where...

(mod, please advise on placement) I have seen some cool videos and know of some interesting video series starting up that I thought it might be fun to have a thread for that (if one doesn't already exist. This first one is part of a series called "The Ride of My Life" by a guy I met named Brad...

A few years ago, Touratech USA and Butler Maps did this route across the state of Washington (located in the Pacific Northwest of the US) that attempted to cross the entire state mostly on back country dirt roads.  Of course, Touratech was hoping it could sell a bunch of protective after market...

Took a short trip down to Baja with four other guys this past weekend.  We only had three days, so we stuck to Baja Norte.  The peninsula is called Baja California and Mexico divides it into a north and a south state. https://www.youtube.com/v/dh5tmnpuBeU Our first day took us through the...

I met this guy Brad Barker a few weeks ago at the Taste of Dakar event.  He had a film crew there doing this whole BMW, etc... sponsored video series on his new GS LC. This first one is kind of a commercial for Black Dog Cycle Works but has a lot of good GS dirt riding and is fun to watch by...

Anyone else see this?  Happened to my mate recently.  He says his other '13's are cracked too.  I heard this was an issue with the '13 models that was apparently addressed in the '14 model?

This is the third time I've been to this event sponsored by AltRider.  They are a US company located in Seattle, Washington.  They make a lot of protective gear for adventure bikes.  They do a few of these rides around the country every year. Each year it is near Death Valley and this time if...