12:00:31 by Mr_McBride | Views: 2224 | Comments: 8
Ride Report 5/4/2013:
An inmate reached out to me after reading one of my ride reports. Gord, who lives in Canada, would be attending a wedding in a neighboring state and had decided to bring his Vee so that he could spend a week riding in the southeastern United States. Gord asked for my assistance with the selection of the best motorcycling roads in the area. I told Gord that I'd not only be happy to plan some routes for him, but that I'd also be happy to join him for 4 days.
I carved up some routes and a plan quickly fell together.
Gord would be attending a wedding on the other end of North Carolina. His plan was to leave Hampstead, NC on Friday and ride to Clemson, SC. We would meet...
This spring my wife and I celebrated our anniversary, birthdays, and Christmas with a motorcycle tour in Europe. This time it would be the Tuscany, Sardinia, and Corsica Tour through Adriatic Mototours. The tour started in Mestre, Italy, which is on the mainland across from Venice. It wound its way through Tuscany to the west coast, where we caught an overnight ferry to Sardinia. After riding a couple of days on Sardinia, another ferry took us to Corsica for a few days, and then a final ferry took us back to the Italian mainland for the final dash back to Mestre (Venice).
We decide to arrive early and hang out in Venice for a ...
Last weekend I was scheduled to attend my riding group's Wildflower Ride to The Hacienda at Fort Hunter Leggett. While I did make part of the ride, I had an unexpected and delightful detour along the way.
Brent, Dorothy, and Geoff with a stunning Norton they had restored and would be exhibiting at the show...
Some friends, Dorothy, Geoff, and Brent, had bikes exhibited at The Quail Gathering in Carmel, an annual event showcasing motorcycles from the past, present and future... Dorothy told me about a group ride on Friday morning with all the entry bikes and I asked if I could tag along for a bit before meeting up wit...
A couple of years ago a friend had organized a ride up to Manchester and it was such a great ride, I decided to recreate it with about 30 of my closest personal friends! Coffee first and then a quick jaunt for the second meet at the Golden Gate Bridge...
Lots of hugs as friends reunited once again... ...
Two of my friends, Kharon & Holly, were celebrating their half-century birth days and invited some friends to join them in Little River (near Mendocino) at the Andiron Lodge for a weekend of fun and frivolity. I decided to ride since the weather was looking good and I wanted to do a little reserach for the Manchester ride... plus there were some roads I hadn't ridden in a long time and wanted to check out again. So I left early on Saturday and slabbed it over to Hwy. 1, Panoramic Hwy, and then Ridgecrest Drive along the top of Mt. Tamalpais... it was cool and quite breezy but the views were stellar... http://tinyurl.com/...
I had dinner with friend and mentor, Robert Haas, a couple of months ago and he asked when we were going to do another skills day. So we coordinated our calendars, found a mutual date, made the announcement, and 15 riders made the time to come out and work on their moto skills. The two things we focused on were proper use of brakes for turning and quick stops in a turn and not dropping your bike. We had one experienced group and one with newer riders, who would take turns doing the exercises with Robert giving them feedback along the way.
Verbal instruction first... notice the t-shirt... LOL
08:34:02 by falcofred | Views: 6692 | Comments: 13
Some of you may have read and remember the ride report from last year’s spring break trip that my Son and I took to Baja. http://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index.php/topic,71204.0.html. This year we went bigger with a off road riding trip to Costa Rica with https://www.mototourscostarica.com/ As I mentioned in the first ride report, my Son and I have been riding off road since he was old enough to ride and XR50 , but now he is in college and I have to bribe him to spend time with me.
First of all before I get into the pictures, I’d like to say that Moto Tours Costa Rica is a first rate outfit. Very professional, delivered what they promised on time and with no extra costs. They picked us...
After last years trip through Russia and Scandinavia, I wanted to go south. South-eastern to be exact. This time, a friend is joining me on a trip through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. We came home with many new experiences, countless interesting encounters and impressions of great landscapes. To be honest, I didn't know the Balkans are THAT beautiful. Really, it's a rough diamond and this hasn't been the last time I was there.
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