The motorcycle helmet industry universally give motorcycle helmets a five year service life: from the first day you shove your head into it until it is time to retire it to the shelf of honor with other used up motorcycle parts.
It’s sixty-four degrees in Seattle today and Scott Sander just stopped by Touratech-USA on his gorgeous new BMW R1200GS Adventure.
The Touratech Tool-Box is the ideal solution for the safe storage of small items on your BMW R1200GS and GS Adventure. This optimal utilization of space allows tools, first-aid kit, breakdown kit and many other useful items to remain on the motorcycle permanently and without interfering.
As a rider, planning and packing for a 2-wheel escape is easy. Whenever there’s the chance to carve out even just 24 hours, you’re packed and outta there before you’ve even figured out where you’re going to land.
Lisa’s hacking cold wasn’t going to stop her enjoying what we are here to see. The Perito Moreno Glacier and so by 10:00am we’d climbed back into our layers of riding gear, somehow managed to do up the strained buckles on our boots and were waddling downstairs and out to the bikes.
Today, Touratech releases a video like no other in the adventure motorcycle market. The Zega Mundo video happens in less than two minutes, mixing a driving beat, twisting roads, mud, gravel, rushing water, epic backdrops and two adventure motorcycles roaring through the woods… and the soundtrack is performed entirely on Touratech Zega Mundo Panniers.
It can be rough for a little motorcycle in the big city. It’s an asphalt jungle clogged full of homicidal taxi drivers, smart phone blinded pedestrians, smugly suicidal bicyclists, and terrified tourists.
On Friday afternoon, Seattle’s Joe Kinsella rode his cool new flat-black Super Tenere to the Touratech-USA headquarters and picked up his Aventuro Carbon helmet.
Back on the road, we were able to take advantage of the newly completed Ruta del Sol on the way to Bogota. It was nice to able to actually ride at highway speeds for much of the time again, something we haven’t been able to do much of since arriving in Colombia due to heavy traffic.
The Backcountry Discovery Routes team was on the road again – this time in Idaho. As with previous projects, the aim was to unlock the potential of a US state for adventure bike riders. The result was a fully documented route across some of the most beautiful off-road sections of the Rocky Mountains.