After burning out the DRZ’s clutch earlier in the summer, I decided that I needed to redeem myself with at least a short off-road trip. I replaced the DRZ’s clutch pack with a heavy duty set from EBC, changed the oil, and repacked my bags. Since I had used a decent chunk of vacation time […]
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My misadventure on the NE and MABDRs
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After spending the winter planning and gear shopping for a two-week trip on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Backcountry Discovery Routes, I wanted to start the spring with a shakedown run to make sure I had everything sorted for my planned load out. Mostly I wanted to make sure I had the chance to test the
This was a short overnight trip I took on the DR-Z I took to test out a new hammock camping set-up and the Acerbis 4-gallon tank I’d just installed. I’d always been super hesitant to take solo off-road trips prior to this for fear of getting stuck in the woods by myself, so this was
In August of ’21, Tori and I took her mother, Dorothy, on a day trip to Block Island, RI. After an early morning drive to New London, we set off on a windy ferry ride to the island. Tori and I had only been dating for a few months at this point, so this trip
In June 2019, Dylan and I joined Ryan and Leanne in New Hampshire to ride in NETRA’s New England Classic rally. Since the last misadventure, I had picked up my DRZ-400S and Dylan was on a new-to-him DR650. Ryan was still on his KTM 1090, but Leanne had also downsized from her KLR to an
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No videos, just a few photos of a trip Dylan and I took with his friends Ryan and Leanne in 2018. We started off doing a nice, easy tour of the Hamster Trail in New Hampshire, starting from Ryan and Leanne’s place in Tamworth. After a few hours of cruising on the unpaved roads of
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In May of 2018, my buddy Dylan and I took off on a 8,000 mile cross country trip. This was our second trip together after doing Atlantic Canada the prior year, but it was my first long trip on my Triumph Tiger and my first long trip involving long distance off-pavement riding. On this trip
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After very excitedly buying my 2017 Triumph Tiger Explorer as my first bike with any off-road capability, I very quickly realized I had no idea what I was doing. Luckily I wasn’t too far away from Pine Barrens Adventure Camp in New Jersey and was able to take their Dirt 101 course before setting off on my upcoming cross country trip.
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