Ladies offroad training

Last Saturday Marianne had her first offroad training organized by Paul and Maaike (Motortoursentracks.nl)! Here's her report: It was a women only day so the boys had to enjoy themselves. There were 6 women for the course, 2 on a Transalp and 4 with a BMW. The first lesson was how to make a turn on a sandy road. Standing on our motorbikes we had to make the turn. Soon everybody got the hang of it, so they made it a bit more difficult; a corrugated S bend. It took us a bit more practice to make a smooth turn. Lesson 3: braking, only using the rear brake we had to bring our motorbikes to a halt. Being a bit foolish I forgot the clutch until the bike started to stutter I suddenly remembered I had a clutch… Fortunately I wasn’t the only one that forgot it! Then we made a short trip because it...

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Ultimate GS Challenge (with a Honda?)

Having participated in two of the previous editions of the UGSC Sander thought it would be a great opportunity to test the bikes and other equipment. Being an early season offroading event, it has all the conditions to properly test our gear. So friday morning around 7.30 we left home by bicycle, wearing our motorcycle gear. After putting the bicycles in the Allsafe self storage, we walked to the train station. Where we waited for the train. This probably looked even more stupid than being on a bicycle, fully dressed. About 10.15 we arrived at Pharaobike in Horn, where our motorbikes were waiting for us. After making the final adjustments to the bikes, like installing a gps mount and locks to the panniers. We set course to Keram Maastricht...

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Pannier racks

As you might know we had some issues with the pannier racks, we had built by a local welder. And we asked Ton if he could make us a pair of new ones. So he did, and here is the result: Judged by the picture, it looks like a pretty decent job. This Friday we will pick up the bikes to give them a test run during the Ultimate GS Challenge. Admittedly it's a bit wierd to visit a GS meeting with two Honda's. But what the heck it's a great oportunity to test our gear. Just can't wai...

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End of an era

Or as Joey Ramone would put it: The VGA took my beemer away (VGA = Vakgarage Aalten) They took her away Away from me After being on Marktplaats for just two weeks; Sander has sold his R1150GS Adventure. The bike he bought after viewing the Long Way Round series. Not because famous movie actor Ewan McGregor was riding one. But it just seamed to be the perfect go-anywhere-bike, at that moment. And Sander, always wanting to travel by bike, realized his Yamaha XVS1100 chopper wasn't a very capable/comfortable tourer. The first test drives on the GS turned out to be very promissing. But who would ever have thought that Sander, who bruised his tibia on those flat cylinders before, would buy a Boxer? In april 2009 Sander imported the bike from Germany. Having 56000 kilometres on the tacho, the...

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