Did You Know?
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Our friends, photographer Shawn Thomas and rider Jason Houle, were at a recent Rawhyde event and set out to prove….
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Braced For Adventure
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The factory lower crash bars for the water-cooled R1200GS and Adventure model look great, but lack a critical rear brace. If your motorcycle takes a hard fall, the factory bars can fold right into the engine, causing damage to the valve cover and the cylinder of your water-boxer.
Riding With Giants
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Every so often, I hatch a scheme to escape my everyday life and hit the road for a while, alone, on two wheels. This year that meant leaving my home in Seattle, to explore the stunning coastline, rugged mountains, and comically large trees of Northern California.
Parked Out Front: Martin
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Martin stopped by Friday. Earlier this month he flew to Los Angeles from his home in Argentina and bought a 2014 Kawasaki KLR650. He didn’t get any luggage with it so he strapped on a giant Rubbermaid container, gave it a snakeskin duct tape wrap and headed up the coast to Seattle and Touratech-USA to pick up a Zega Pro Pannier System.
Willson 120: How To Raise Money For Your Dream Ride
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While we could have created a Kickstarter campaign or put feelers out for sponsorship money, that just didn’t feel right to us. This is our dream trip, an extended vacation if you will, so we didn’t feel it was right to ask for anyone to pay for it but ourselves. As for ways to save up enough money for a 4-month trip, here are a few of the things we did:
Final Thoughts on the GS Trophy
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On September 13, the BMW Mottorad International GS Trophy concluded in Western Canada. Touratech outfitted each of the R1200GS Water Boxers in the event with skid plates, crash bars and other protective accessories and we tracked the event from start to finish.
Touratech Rocks the ‘Road of Bones’
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Long before we set off from London on our 105 – day Road of Bones Expedition it was decided to fit a range of Touratech products to our R1200 GS lead bike. For such a demanding journey in such remote regions, reliability, bike protection and performing “as advertised” is essential.
RIDER ALERT! Pre-Order the TKC 70 Dual-Sport Tire NOW!
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The new Continental TKC 70 tire is finally available for pre-order at Touratech-USA! The TKC 70 fills the gap between the Trail Attack and the TKC 80 by giving riders a 60/40 option tire that should last a long time on the pavement without giving up too much traction in the dirt.
Parked Out Front: Jesus’ and Faizel
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Jesus’ and Faizal stopped by Touratech-USA on Friday after a couple months of traveling that took them through Mexico and then all the way up the West Coast to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Jesus, from Oakland, CA was on his 2008 Triumph Bonneville and Faizel, from Malaysia was on a BMW R1200GS. The two met in […]
The GS Trophy Goes to Team CEEU
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After seven days and well over 2,300 km of tough riding interspersed with 20 special stages, Team Central and Eastern Europe (CEEU), were crowned champions of the 2014 GS Trophy, having led the competition from wire to wire.