Bike Trips

Make Life An Adventure - On Two Wheels

If youre really into adventure, you should look into Adventure touring (also known as overlanding). The idea is simple. Ride your motorcycle in places youve never been before, and be sure to check with the locals to prepare for your ride!

I had the opportunity to meet some of the worlds great motorcycle adventurers recently, and the really interesting thing was just how much they are like everyone else. The difference is that whereas we all dream, they have acted on their dreams.

I was down in Amado, AZ, at the Overland Expo, which is a gathering intended to bring people who dream about adventure touring together with people who do it, and with vendors who make products geared specifically for this type of excursion. The place was packed.

Adventure touring, or overlanding as they call it, is said to be the fastest growing niche in motorcycling, with popular models being the Kawasaki KLR650, the Suzuki DR-Z400, the Yamaha WR450F, among others. Unlike road touring, big power is not the people doing these rides look for first. In fact, as a simple rule of thumb you can ponder this adage: If you cant pick it up by yourself its not an adventure motorcycle.

To listen to some of these people tell their stories of their adventures is both inspiring and daunting. There was Ted Simon, who wrote Jupiters Travels about his four-year ride around the world. Also Lois Pryce, whose ride from Alaska to the tip of South America is recounted in her book Lois on the Loose, and whose trip from England to Cape Town, South Africa, is told in Red Tape and White Knuckles. Both those rides were on 250cc Yamaha machines. And there were others.

It wasnt just the distances they covered, but also the seemingly insurmountable problems they somehow surmounted and incredible struggles their journeys at times required. Not to mention outright dangers, ranging from passing through countries at war to running out of gas in the middle of the Sahara Desert with nobody else around for miles to being jailed by local authorities intent on separating you from your cash. How many among us have the gumption to push a heavily laden motorcycle through miles of knee-deep mud or ride a road that rains have turned into a river through an area where anything off the road holds the potential of triggering land mines?

Fortunately, it isnt necessary to risk your life in order to go adventuring on your motorcycle. The people who write the books are the ones who have gone to extremes. For the rest of us who arent as hard core, all it really takes is to take a weeks vacation and go ride somewhere youve never been before. Sure it still takes preparation. If youve never ridden a that KLR 650 on goat trails you had best get some practice before setting off on a seven-day ride through the Rocky Mountains. Youd also better talk to some people who have done these things before about the right kind of tents, sleeping bags, and other gear youll need.

But in the end its all about challenging yourself. Challenging yourself to make the commitment to go, to do the necessary research and preparation, and then to actually ride the ride. Many people shake their heads and tell themselves they just cant do these kinds of things: They have jobs, families, commitments. They dont have the money for the bikes and gear or they cant take the time off.

These are valid concerns but one common theme cropped up again and again at the expo: If you really want to do this kind of adventuring you will organize your life to make it possible. Do you really need a 5, 000-square-foot house when a 2, 000-square-foot house would free up enough money to buy the bike and the gear and leave you with a much smaller mortgage that would then free up more money for more trips? In short, its priorities. Do you have real dreams, or are they fantasies? Real dreams really can come true, but you are the one who has to make that happen.

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What would you suggest?
For a biking trip where you have a year to bike to florida, passing along other states so it isnt a straight line. Would you bike every day, or every other day? How much can you bike in a day and do the same the next? Like is 50-65 miles a day too crazy?

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Geometry word problem help?
1. P, M, Q are three points on a line. The coordinates of P and M are -11.9 and 3.7, respectively. If M is the midpoint of PQ, what is the coordinate of Q? 2. On a straight road, Luis is 10km south of a farmhouse and Don is 14km north of the same farmhouse. Relative to the farmhouse, where is the midpoint of the positions of Luis & Don? 3. At the beginnging of a bike trip on a trail that does die north. Devon noticed that he was 4 kilometers south of a tell cedar tree. If the midpoint of his ride was 7km north of the tall cedar tree, how far did devin have to travel? Answers and please explain! Those problems are the ones I had the most hardest time in.

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Pre-Algebra Math Problem ...please work out.?
1. Lydia rode 243 miles in a three-day bike trip. On the first day, Lydia rode 67 miles. On the second day, she rode 92 miles. How many miles per hour did she average on the third day if she rode for 7 hours? 2. x/2 + 2/3=5/6 ? 3. 5n/8 - 1/2= 3/4 4. -2x - 7 + 3x =10 5. Alessia is paid 1.4 times her normal hourly rate for each hour she works over 30hrs in a week. Last week she worked 35 hours and earned $436.60. Write and solve an equation to solve Alessia hourly rate.

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Pre-Algebra Math Problem ...please work out..STEP BY STEP?
1. Alessia is paid 1.4 times her normal hourly rate for each hour she works over 30hrs in a week. Last week she worked 35 hours and earned $436.60. Write and solve an equation to solve Alessia hourly rate. WORK OUT STEP BY STEP. 2. Lydia rode 243 miles in a three-day bike trip. On the first day, Lydia rode 67 miles. On the second day, she rode 92 miles. How many miles per hour did she average on the third day if she rode for 7 hours? WORK OUT STEP BY STEP.

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Sony NEX-5K/B or Nikon D3100?
It's Prashant from India. I am a hobbyist photographer. I love clicking images. By the critics I got from my Facebook album, I've decided to take it a bit seriously. I am planing to get myself a real camera. So far I'v been using mostly P&S and occasionally some friend's SLR I am yet unable to decide if I like Macro more or Portraits or Nature or something else.. I really need some pro advice for my first real camera. I am kinda short on budget. Rs.2500 to 2800/- max. (around $500 that is the starting range here in India) I am confused between Sony NEX-5K/B and Nikon D3100. NEX-5K/B is much more compact and lightweight which is really good for me. Coz I love to go on bike-trips. This one will be really handy for those. D3100 on the other hand looks more convincing. Plus no need to get the mount adapter. (which is a must if I wanna upgrade from 18-55/18-200 with NEX-5K/B) So now you know.. Please help me choosing one of these.. Thanks! :)

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