ADV Riding

Touratech GPS Classes: Garmin Montana – Part 1 of 3

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Part 1 of 3 Now is a great time to sharpen your GPS skills. Join Touratech Adventure Expert and Touratech Rally Ride Coordinator, Eric Archambault for this in-depth, GPS specific skills class. This class will focus on the Garmin Montana Series of GPS units. You should leave this video with a solid understanding on all [...]

Touratech Explains Electronic Traction Control (Mototrek Video)

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Electronic traction control is a relatively new feature on adventure motorcycles. Traction control systems are becoming more and more advanced and offer lots of customization. Eric and Iain are back to explain how it all works, when you should use it, and when you shouldn't. Touratech-USA

Installation: Touratech Headlight Guard – KTM 1290 Super Adventure

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The large, aggressively styled headlight on the KTM 1290 is impressively bright, but easily picks up dings and damage from thrown rocks while riding off-road.  Protect the expensive and vulnerable headlight lens on your KTM Super Adventure R or S with this quick-release headlight guard from Touratech. The headlight guard clips on and off the [...]

Touratech Riding Tips Series: How to Perfect Balance

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How to Perfect Balance on an Adventure Motorcycle By Ron Lieback The majority of ADV motorcycles are large, heavy, and sometimes difficult to manage in technical sections of the trail because their balance points lay on a fine line. And let’s not forget that more often than not those same bikes are loaded up with [...]

Top 7 Must-Have Accessories when Adventure Motorcycle Touring

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Photo by Ely Woody (Above) By Ron Lieback For some, heading out aboard their adventure motorcycle means disconnecting from the rest of the modern world and, well, roughing it. Forget the cell phones, gizmos, gadgets, and anything that isn’t the bare essentials. Fair enough. But some of us like to tour in comfort and style, [...]

Introducing ZEGA Evo from Touratech

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Continuous EVOLUTION has been the company’s mantra for improving the ZEGA pannier system over the years and it has inspired ‘Evo,’ the name given to its latest iteration. ZEGA Evo combines proven strength and utility while giving riders quick-release capability for easily removing the boxes. ZEGA Evo provides quick-mount convenience without giving up reliability, even in the most demanding applications. Riders [...]

Touratech Zega: Making the Case for Hard Luggage

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If you’re searching for the best luggage for your adventure motorcycle, you can stop looking. There is only one choice in Motorcycle travel: Zega Panniers by Touratech. Zega by Touratech is the industry standard in protection for you and your belongings. Zega provides the most storage space, the most versatility and the highest quality. The [...]

How To Set SAG

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Is your suspension sag set properly? Guest hosts Iain and Eric from Touratech-USA demonstrate the correct way to set race sag, and explain why proper sag is critical to motorcycle control and rider safety with the crew from MotoTrek! Touratech carries a full line of simply the best suspension products for adventure motorcycles and our [...]

Helge Pedersen’s Box Talk: Pannier Philosophy

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There is a lot of debate about panniers. Hard or soft? At Touratech we speak with riders all the time that want to know what luggage best suits their riding style and/or plans for future riding. We're kind of partial to hard luggage. We thought the best resource to tap regarding panniers (or anything else [...]

Helge Pedersen’s Box Talk: Tool Tray

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Helge Pedersen has seen it all and done it all from the back of a motorcycle. A pioneer in long-distance motorcycle travel, Helge basically created the ADV genre. Touratech asked Helge to create some short videos talking about his reasons for using Zega panniers. In this edition he talks about the versatility of the hard [...]