Forum: Ride reports
05-09-2013, 06:54 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,796
most excellent!
Hey Doug,
good to see you are at it again!
Let me know if you plan to stop by Almaty, would be cool to catch up a bit... can't believe how long it has been since we last met!:deal
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Forum: Ride reports
03-24-2013, 01:25 AM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
+1
Hey John,
I couldn't agree more once again. My piece of cr... 20 YO old bike got me stranded 42% of the time I spent travelling in the Americas since everything that could fail, did actually fail...
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Forum: Ride reports
03-24-2013, 01:08 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 6,981
magnifique!
Superbe,
j'ai un projet similaire pour l'été prochain sur la même route (et un autre en back up dépendant de mon employeur!).
Je risque de t'ennuyer avec quelques questions par PM si tu veux...
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Forum: Ride reports
02-06-2013, 08:26 PM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
Mud!
+1 on the mud volcano, but they may have change the name though, it was called volcàn de lodo el totumo, when I was there IIRC :evil
Camping in the Tayrona national park was also a highlight of my...
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Forum: Ride reports
01-24-2013, 06:15 PM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
brilliant!
Most excellent update...
I was making fun of those poor and lost souls that crossed the gap on GIRAG, but you put my own 9 day crossing on a barely functionning sailboat hitting 3 storms tearing...
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Forum: Ride reports
12-18-2012, 10:40 PM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
bonne année
Thanks for making me feel better, afraid I have to work on getting my wallet fatter then!:rofl
Can't wait to see how you are gonna cross the Darien, it was a highlight of my own trip...
BTW,...
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Forum: Ride reports
12-18-2012, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
Nooooooo!!!! I thought I was the ONLY one not...
Nooooooo!!!! I thought I was the ONLY one not having facebook... you guys are bringing me down, I previously thought I was the only one to ride a motorcycle to South America... what do I have to do...
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Forum: Ride reports
12-17-2012, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 86
Views: 18,866
Thanks for taking us along!
Erik,
PM sent.
Thanks for sharing your adventure with us. Ride safe and enjoy every minute of it (I think you do:deal).
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Forum: Ride reports
12-10-2012, 01:11 PM
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Replies: 79
Views: 14,182
How did I miss that?
Hi Marat,
I can't believe I missed your ride report entirely!!!! Great read, I am planning on riding the Pamir on a bicyle next summer.
We have to ride together again next year too. I have some...
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Forum: Ride reports
12-04-2012, 11:36 PM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
Justin
Good on you mate!
Looking at the truck that hit him I'd say he is still lucky with just a broken leg (although it looks pretty bad...)
Be careful out there guys...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-29-2012, 06:59 PM
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Replies: 208
Views: 36,190
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Forum: Ride reports
11-18-2012, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
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Forum: Ride reports
11-18-2012, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
:rofl:rofl:rofl
thanks for this kind (and...
:rofl:rofl:rofl
thanks for this kind (and funny!) answer... but I have to come clean with that one: I am misleading people a bit by posting pics of small parts of my orange bike to make them...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-18-2012, 10:16 AM
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Replies: 4,647
Views: 2,506,213
you are totally right.
Pretty much every store...
you are totally right.
Pretty much every store selling phones around here (Almaty!) has the special tool to punch the sim card, they do it for free too... Might not be the case in more remote areas...
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Forum: Ride reports
11-16-2012, 11:35 PM
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Replies: 2,561
Views: 457,569
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Forum: Ride reports
10-14-2012, 05:29 AM
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Replies: 104
Views: 19,339
Must have been Kapshagay.
The story goes...
Must have been Kapshagay.
The story goes like that: After reading «Peau de Chagrin» from very dead french writer Honoré de Balzac, the First (and only so far) President of Kazakhstan, decided the...
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Forum: Ride reports
10-08-2012, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 131
Views: 38,223
Yamaha
Not sure which Yamaha you are talking about, but if it is mine, it is broken down in most pictures I have of it!:rofl
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Forum: Ride reports
10-08-2012, 05:01 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 20,621
cool!
Just arrived myself this morning from 2 weeks trip taking me and 3 other bikes to Morocco. It was awesome, wish it was longer!
Enjoy, it is absolutely fantastic to ride in this part of the world...
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Forum: Ride reports
09-22-2012, 02:48 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,367
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Forum: Latin America
07-24-2012, 01:45 AM
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Replies: 84
Views: 10,288
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Forum: Ride reports
07-24-2012, 01:32 AM
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Replies: 1,386
Views: 308,448
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Forum: Ride reports
07-23-2012, 01:17 AM
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Replies: 1,386
Views: 308,448
New avatar?
Good to see you kept your sense of humour through all this, the force is strong with you, young padawan!:clap
BTW, I think you should make your avatar from that X-Ray, that would be one of the...
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Forum: Ride reports
07-21-2012, 09:37 PM
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Replies: 1,386
Views: 308,448
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Forum: Ride reports
07-17-2012, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 1,386
Views: 308,448
get well soon my friend!
I hope you'll recover well and soon...
at least your bike is still in a good shape it seems and ready for you to get back on the road,
best wishes man...
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Forum: Ride reports
06-03-2012, 12:36 AM
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Replies: 1,386
Views: 308,448
wow!
Not checking in on your report for a week is just too much!!!!!
I am now overwhelmed by so much action, adventures and suspens...:clap
Waterfalls, water pumps, big asses, etc...
No doubt you'll...
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Forum: Thumpers
05-23-2012, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 256
Views: 64,678
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Forum: Thumpers
05-18-2012, 11:20 PM
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Replies: 256
Views: 64,678
best project ever!
wow! this is just amazing...
what you are doing is totally against all logic, useless, a waste of precious time and yet...
...this can only be define as the beauty of art.
you are the...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-15-2012, 11:59 AM
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Replies: 128
Views: 25,434
Bats!
Fantastic RR, love your sense of humour and narrative, let alone your sense of adventure.
I know it might come as a dissapointment to you but I doubt you would be able to find a vampire bat...
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Forum: Latin America
04-16-2012, 07:19 PM
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Replies: 407
Views: 36,836
Yep, just moved into my appartment on Furmanova...
Yep, just moved into my appartment on Furmanova last friday after a month in a hotel on Dostyk. you can come and crash on my sofa anytime, we'll talk about good ole Rio Gallegos til we puke. :freaky...
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Forum: Latin America
04-16-2012, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 407
Views: 36,836
Am I the only one thinking it is the end of an...
Am I the only one thinking it is the end of an era?
It is like if ruta 40 was paved all the way from La Quiaca hasta Patagonia (which is bound to happen one day, isn't it?).
I am just glad I was...
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Forum: Central – From Da Nort Woods to the Plane States
04-07-2012, 05:34 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 5,425
I'll miss it again!
Damn!!!!! I will miss this one yet again. I had such a good time two years ago, time flies it seems it was just a few months ago...
You all have a good time there and ride safe :deal
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Forum: Latin America
04-03-2012, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 84
Views: 10,288
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Forum: The perfect line and other riding myths
04-03-2012, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 103
Views: 9,224
when there is a will....
Me, I am no planner, but I was debt free and when I lost my job, I just decided to go. 6 1/2 months on the road on a 20 year old bike partly thanks to my line of credit. Don't forget that your buck...
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Forum: Ride reports
03-25-2012, 11:42 PM
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Replies: 1,386
Views: 308,448
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Forum: Ride reports
03-21-2012, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 365
Views: 144,213
hell yeah!
+1.
Vince is right, it is a whole new dimension when you hit the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. It is an absolute must!:deal
Keep on riding, you made the right choice...
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Forum: Ride reports
02-06-2012, 12:52 PM
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Replies: 1,386
Views: 308,448
sigh!!!!
Bad thing about your ride report is you make me wish I was still there in Colombia!
Good thing is you are a true adventurer and my time in SA was probably not even half as good as yours. It is...
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Forum: Asia
11-07-2011, 09:58 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,301
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Forum: Latin America
11-01-2011, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,010
Me I'd say better ride the old road to Coroico...
Me I'd say better ride the old road to Coroico and the new one back, safer IMHO. At least you are travelling in the same directions as the bicycles and their assistance trucks, plus I didn't see any...
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Forum: Ride reports
10-31-2011, 11:11 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,235
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Forum: Ride reports
10-31-2011, 06:11 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,235
have fun!
Hey guys,
good to see you on the road:clap... it seems like years have gone by since we talked about this around a couple rounds of beers!:freaky
Good luck, I will be following you for sure...
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