Front Page Photo Candidates - Page 441

dbahm · 06-30-2011, 05:46 AM

This one has my vote.

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Originally Posted by Blaise

I don't know if this is worthy, but it's one of my fav pics from my trip last week.

Tons of fun that's for sure.

mr.joke · 06-30-2011, 06:00 AM

my friend with a scrambler and me with my bonneville, 3 weeks ago in Morocco

fluff34567 · 06-30-2011, 09:57 AM

my 2 feeble attempts:

At the Furka pass in Switzerland looking down on to Gletch and the Grimsel pass.

At the glacier on the sustenpass.

Nelis04 · 06-30-2011, 12:45 PM

And the Steingletscher on the lower pic.

Next monday i will be driving there

3 weeks Switserland on my new to me R1150GSA.

Scoobynut · 06-30-2011, 02:11 PM

This was taken a couple of weekends ago at the Dakota Dual-Sport Rally in the Black Hills of South Dakota. My shot of a KTM rider blasting through one of the many stream crossings we saw that day.

Skowinski · 06-30-2011, 06:14 PM

Looking through some old photos and found this one:

opaque_machete · 06-30-2011, 10:53 PM

Got my vote without a doubt! What an awesome view!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blaise

I don't know if this is worthy, but it's one of my fav pics from my trip last week.

Tons of fun that's for sure.

opaque_machete · 06-30-2011, 10:55 PM

I like this one best of all of them.

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Originally Posted by mr.joke

opaque_machete · 06-30-2011, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by chris98vf

Doesn't quite look like a dual sport but I give you an A++ for extra credit

All part of the adventure. No matter what bike you're on.

fluff34567 · 06-30-2011, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Nelis04

And the Steingletscher on the lower pic.

Next monday i will be driving there

3 weeks Switserland on my new to me R1150GSA.

FORGOT THE NAME - THANKS!

we got a bit on wednesday - but going by the news reports we were quite lucky to avoid the worst weather.

markas · 07-01-2011, 12:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blaise

I don't know if this is worthy, but it's one of my fav pics from my trip last week.

Tons of fun that's for sure.

+1

Callahan · 07-01-2011, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by okantezer

This one is from Turkey...

Green House effect

Callahan · 07-01-2011, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by jpdude999

Originally posted by > 1 BAD HABIT

+1 for here BAD ASS attittude, giving the fingers too

asilindean · 07-01-2011, 05:03 AM

+100

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Originally Posted by Nata Harli

Am I the only one who likes this?

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Originally Posted by 2712

Photo of 24-year-old Elspeth Beard in London after completing her solo ride around the world on her used 1974 R 60/6 BMW in 1984 via Motorcyclist Online, found via Mary Caple.

Her first bike was a Yamaha 100 and she soon graduated to a Honda 250. She found that useful for nipping around London but, after a while, felt the urge for something more macho. "I worked for months in a pub saving the money to buy my BMW 600," she says. "That gave me the bug for travel on a bike. It's the best way to get around - cheap, efficient and I enjoy the freedom."

When she finished her training to become an architect, Elspeth wanted a taste of adventure before settling down, and decided to ride round the world. She shipped the BMW to New York where she picked it up and rode to Canada, then to Los Angeles, before putting the bike on a ship for Sydney.

Once reunited with her BMW, she rode across Australia to Perth, where the bike was placed on a boat again, this time to Singapore. From there she rode north through Malaysia and Thailand. "Burma was closed to me," she says, "so I rode back to Penang and put the bike on a ship to Madras."

The next stop was Calcutta and her route continued to Katmandu, Nepal and thence to Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece and back home through mainland Europe. The trip, covering 48,000 miles, lasted nearly three years - and wasn't without incident. —Kenric Hickson in an excerpt from Typical biker: Elspeth Beard.

"I somersaulted the bike in Australia," she says, "and spent two weeks in hospital. Later it caught fire. The wiring loom had burned out but I had the most amazing luck. Only a few hundred yards away was the first building I had seen all day and there was this sign saying 'electrician'. I was saved."
Elspeth has taken her 10-year-old son, Tom, on short trips to Europe. "Long journeys are out until he is older," she says. "Then we aim to go to Alaska, down the west coast of America, into Mexico, on to South America and Chile and through Argentina, Patagonia and, finally, to Tierra del Fuego."

elroyjetsn · 07-01-2011, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Blaise

I don't know if this is worthy, but it's one of my fav pics from my trip last week.

Tons of fun that's for sure.

Is that a backpack or a parachute? Def not for the faint of heart!

06-30-2011, 06:00 AM	#6602
mr.joke n00b Joined: May 2011 Location: Barcelona, Catalonia Oddometer: 7	my friend with a scrambler and me with my bonneville, 3 weeks ago in Morocco __________________ http://www.trincats.org

06-30-2011, 12:45 PM	#6604
Nelis04 Adventure Newbee Joined: Jul 2009 Location: Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Oddometer: 77	And the Steingletscher on the lower pic. Next monday i will be driving there 3 weeks Switserland on my new to me R1150GSA. __________________ Derbi Senda DRD sm '04 => BMW F650GS '04 => Yamaha xt660z Ténéré '09 => BMW R1150GSA '05

06-30-2011, 02:11 PM	#6605
Scoobynut Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Aug 2009 Location: SW N. Dakota Oddometer: 302	This was taken a couple of weekends ago at the Dakota Dual-Sport Rally in the Black Hills of South Dakota. My shot of a KTM rider blasting through one of the many stream crossings we saw that day. __________________ ____________________________________ 2012 Yamaha XT1200Z Super Tenere 1988 Honda Hawk GT 1977 Yamaha RD400 1966 Yamaha YL1

06-30-2011, 06:14 PM	#6606
Skowinski Tetrapod Joined: Nov 2009 Location: creeping about on the surface Oddometer: 3,432	Northern Colorado 2004 Looking through some old photos and found this one: __________________ "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Thoreau

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06-30-2011, 09:57 AM	#6603
fluff34567 Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jul 2010 Location: chococ land AKA switzerland Oddometer: 458	my 2 feeble attempts: At the Furka pass in Switzerland looking down on to Gletch and the Grimsel pass. At the glacier on the sustenpass.