Backcountry Discovery Routes

It’s Riding Season…..Finally!

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Note: If you live in a warm weather climate, the piece below is not written for you, but please read it and have a good laugh at our expense. Each fall, there comes a time when the staff at Seattle based Touratech-USA look at the calendar and then out the windows at the motorcycles that we [...]

Q. & A. with 11-Time Baja 1000 Champion, Johnny Campbell

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The following Q. & A. with 11-Time Baja 1000 Champion, Johnny Campbell took place upon his completion of the Nevada Backcountry Discovery Route on a Honda CRF 1000L  Africa Twin last fall. It appears in the March/April issue of ADVmoto Magazine. We appreciate their permission to post it!     ADV Moto: Was this your fist time [...]

1,200 Miles of Nevada Dirt on Africa Twin

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Written by Paul Guillien             Photos by: Bill Wiegand ADV Moto Magazine published the following story in the March/April 2017 issue! Touratech would like to thank them for allowing us to post it on our blog! Johnny Campbell’s ‘thing for Honda’ started at age 9 when his dad brought home an [...]

Backcountry Discovery Routes Packing List

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If you're looking for an extreme, fun and challenging ride in 2017, the Backcountry Discovery Routes are an unrivaled option. See New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Idaho like you've never seen them before and utilize all of your riding skill while doing it. At Touratech, we're asked all the time, "What should [...]

WABDR 2016: A Father/Daughter Adventure – Part 3

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Tom Myers is the owner of Touratech-USA. He’s been a rider his entire life and is a wizard on two-wheels. This summer, Tom’s 16 year old daughter, Chloe got her motorcycle endorsement and they embarked upon what will (hopefully) be the first of many father/daughter rides. On a new Touratech equipped, Honda Africa Twin and a vintage 1983 [...]

WABDR 2016: A Father/Daughter Adventure – Part 2

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Tom Myers is the owner of Touratech-USA. He’s been a rider his entire life and is a wizard on two-wheels. This summer, Tom’s 16 year old daughter, Chloe got her motorcycle endorsement and they embarked upon what will (hopefully) be the first of many father/daughter rides. On a new Touratech equipped, Honda Africa Twin and a vintage 1983 [...]

WABDR 2016: A Father/Daughter Adventure – Part 1

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Tom Myers is the owner of Touratech-USA. He’s been a rider his entire life and is a wizard on two-wheels. This summer, Tom’s 16 year old daughter, Chloe got her motorcycle endorsement and they embarked upon what will (hopefully) be the first of many father/daughter rides. On a new Touratech equipped, Honda Africa Twin and a [...]

Packing for a Motorcycle Trip

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Preparing for a motorcycle trip correctly is paramount to the success of the trip. If you do it right, you’ll be safer on the trail, prepared for unforeseen situations, more comfortable and have more fun. In this presentation (given at Touratech Rally East in 2016), Backcountry Discovery Routes rider and Touratech-USA CEO, Paul Guillien gives [...]

Touratech-USA Youtube channel hits 6,000,000 views!

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Our youtube channel just hit the milestone of 6,000,000 views! That’s huge and to commemorate this occasion, over the next week we’d like to share with you the 6 most watched videos ever on our channel! This is NUMBER 6.

2015 NMBDR Preview – Section 2

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Section 2 begins with a series of rock-based, mountain roads. You’ll twist and turn through high-elevation deciduous forest and across numerous slow-moving streams enroute to Ruidoso, an engaging mountain hamlet.