Today was a chill day. Since Marco’s bike is at the shop we stayed in and worked primarily on our content. We got some blog posts ready, some videos edited and reached out on several media outlets to get the word out. That was most of our day. Marco received a call around 4:00pm letting him know his bike was…
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After spending the day focusing on writing these posts, prepping videos, and organizing photos we patiently wait for an update on my bike. From the moment I had dropped the R90 off at BMW, I went over the BMW Motorcycle Owners of America forum to reach out to their responsive community for any and all advice on what was happening…
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It’s a brisk Denver morning as we stroll into the BMW dealership. I wanted to get there as soon as they opened to commence the discussion on how to get my bike back on the road sooner rather than later. The service counter is ruled by a lovely woman who proceeds to tell me that there is only one man…
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This morning Meaghan drove us over to the BMW dealership so Marco could check on his bike. I browsed the BMW showroom and fell in love with the BMW R nineT, there were also other models that would’ve fared much better than our bikes on this trip. Unfortunately we didn’t have the kind of scratch to dish out for these…
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This is becoming an all too familiar sight – the passenger seat of a vehicle housing the rear dimensions large enough to transport my horse. I’m not sure what’s more uncomfortable, the artificial fresh air filling the tow truck cabin or watching all these miles go by with out riding them myself. As Colorado’s landscape evolves from flat lands to…
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We left Oakley this morning with Denver as our destination. We set out on the road and not even 30 minutes in we lose Gomes. I signal to Marco to pull over. We look back in the distance to try and find Gomes and we see a small dot that we believe to be Gomes. We wait it out and…
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Almost everyone we spoke with said the most boring part of our trip would be in Kansas. “It’s flat … there’s nothing … it’s boring” they’d say. We began dreading the ride through this state, especially since it would be the longest state we’d be crossing on the way to California. Well so far it’s the most scenic state we’ve…
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We woke up today to some not so good weather reports. Even though it won’t rain in Kingdom City until 2pm, Kansas City is already experiencing rain and the clouds are moving towards us. We take a quick trip to the local Walmart to make some purchases we needed and then come back and try to decide on whether to…
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Given the lack of clearance on the cross bar of the brackets on the R90 coupled with the added weight of all the gear, the rear tire was bottoming out. I had chopped an extra front fender off a CB550 and bolted it to the crossbar with some countersunk bolts. Turns out, the bolts weren’t sunk in enough, or at…
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It’s day three and we have made some really good time the past two days. If all goes well, today we will be a whole day ahead of schedule. For this we’ll need to make it out to Lawrence, Kansas. After getting ready and running through the same grueling routine of re-loading the bikes with all our gear we set…
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