Author Archives: rtwpaul

All You Need To Know About Tires   There is a great deal of riders hitting the road for long motorcycle trips and amazingly the line – “I have zero motorcycle knowledge” can be read very often! You don’t have to admit that you are one of those riders, just have a read, maybe learn aContinue reading “All You Need To Know About Tires”

Day #377 on the road… We have a few miles left to ride in Greece to a ferry to leave the country. In 3 1/2 months we rode approx 4000 miles/ 6400km all over the country and still have a little to go… Greece is about the same size as Alabama! There are a fewContinue reading “America, land of the free home of the brave – or is it…a few closing thoughts on Greece”

The Greeks had a massive influence on the English language (along with Latin of course) and most of the more unusual words have all but disappeared. Maybe they need to come back and there are some great ones for travelers. That title again, so it can be fully understood – It’s time to leave Greece,Continue reading “It’s time to leave Greece, we will continue to ‘Peregrinate’. Do you ever have that, ‘Coddiwomple’ feeling?”

Packing, for reference this the bike fully loaded for two people on a multi-year RTW Jesse Luggage panniers (90 liters) Mosko Moto duffle (60 liters and its not even 50% full) Wolfman Blackhawk tank bag (8 liters) Last thing I want to be loaded like is this guy I met in NC back in 2012Continue reading “Packing for 2 up riding – what do you really need to bring!!!”

There a few regular questions that you get asked as a RTW rider. What’s your favorite place or country? Where haven’t you been yet? How fast does your bike go? How do you do it? How do you afford it? How much does it cost? Let’s deal with that last one, how much does itContinue reading “The question everyone wants an answer about: MONEY. How much does a RTW cost?”

The RTW continues, to date since 2011 I have covered approximately 300,000km which as a visual, looks like the above image. There are still a lot of gaps to fill in that map and 2017 will add to that red line some more and continue on, and be DOCUMENTED HERE in a different way thanContinue reading “2017 and the RTW continues…”

January 2016 saw the stat of a new RTW, the chosen bike is the Yamaha Super Tenere. The ride started in Las Vegas and has been fully documented on ADVrider to date, and that ride report is here…LINK today (26th December 2016) there are some 79 pages and 1579 posts. I am not going to rehashContinue reading “2016 and the beginning of a new RTW”

2015 was the least I have ridden in a lot of years, the main ride was the Trans America Trail or the TAT as its commonly called…a fully documented ride report is here…LINK with lots and lots of photos. It took three bikes to get it accomplished and a chase by some coyotes …and a quick videoContinue reading “2015 and the TAT”

A return from South America…again, and more riding in the US. Spring 2014 would see me head off RTW on a KTM…this is all documented in this ride report here…LINK On the fist page you can jump to where I swapped to the KTM or click here…LINK …and there is a complete build thread on thatContinue reading “2013 to 2014 and a quick RTW”

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