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Great Gift Ideas for Every Rider

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This year Touratech has created a 'go to' list with a ton of great gift ideas for riders. Many of these are perfect stocking stuffers and some are just things every rider needs. Helmet Shelf A great accessory that offers ventilation and dedicated storage space! $62 ADV First-Aid Kit Don't ride without this ultra-light, water-tight first-aid [...]

Awesome Rally Photo: A Rider and her Trophy

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Photographer Angela Goodman covered the 2016 Touratech Rally for us and she captured this terrific image of a rider carrying a trophy from one of the challenges towards the camping area.

Touratech to Debut 4 New Products at IMS Long Beach

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At the International Motorcycle in Long Beach on November 18 – 21 Touratech will be introducing four exciting new products for adventure motorcycles:   RallyeForm Skid Plate: Touratech has a long history of testing new products in rally and racing environments. Those challenges take motorcycles and their accessories to the extreme and when Touratech introduces [...]

What’s New About the New Honda CRF250L Rally?

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By Aaron Jennings, Touratech Adventure Expert Honda has just announced that they are going to sell the new CRF250L Rally in the USA. The price is stated to be $5,899, with the bike slated to arrive in showrooms in March! This bike certainly looks the ticket, but what is it really all about? The Good: -Rally-inspired [...]

Back to the Future: Garmin Introduces the 276cx

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They say "absence makes the heart grow fonder." That definitely applies to the GPS unit that has been sitting on my shelf for the last decade. The Garmin 276c was the biggest and best GPS unit available back when the BMW R1150GSA ruled the adventure market. Suddenly, in 2009 it was ultimately discontinued by Garmin to [...]

Lisa & Simon Thomas talk Zega Pro Panniers

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Last fall Touratech-USA were fortunate to have Simon and Lisa Thomas in our booth at the International Motorcycle Show in Long Beach. As the world record holders for the longest continuous motorcycle journey they know adventure bikes and they know the most effective gear. The Thomas' have been using Touratech Zega panniers for years and [...]

Touratech’s Africa Twin and MotoGeo Ride to Alaska

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At Touratech we're huge fans of the work that Jamie and MotoGeo do. Their riding videos highlight lots of different bikes and cool places to ride around the world and we've been wanting to do a project with them for a while. When they told us they were heading to Alaska and were looking for a bike to ride [...]

Archambault’s Angle: Winterizing Your Riding Gear

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Unless you are living somewhere southern and sunny, summer has faded, and fall never lasts long. Here in Seattle that brings months of gloomy, wet days. Odds are, after the summer your riding gear is not in great shape, even the Gore-Tex stuff. Jackets and Pants While I end up having to wash my Klim [...]

2016 Honda Africa Twin Bike Build: Part 2

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Touratech has so many upgrades for the Honda Africa Twin, that they wouldn't fit in just one blog post! This is the second of a two part build.   Your Africa Twin gets you from point A to Point B, but how is the rest of your stuff getting there? One word: Panniers. There is [...]

2016 Honda Africa Twin Bike Build: Part 1

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The Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin is the buzz bike of 2016. The re-issue of the stalwart adventure motorcycling legend has set the industry on it’s ear and if you’re one of the lucky few to have gotten your hands on one then you know what the buzz is about. It's clean lines and aggressive styling [...]