We’ve been getting an interesting amount of attention on the road for the bikes we decided to take on this trip so why not break down what we are riding. The Japanese Italian Bruno is on his ‘79 Honda CX500, the smallest of the three stallions but it’s kept up with no issue what so ever. It was purchased in…
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It’s only our second day in and we’ve all experienced our share of problems already. Marco keeps having some bike troubles, Gomes’ cargo net clips bent and broke due to the heat, and I . . . Well picture this. It was about an hour into the ride, Marco and Gomes are in front of me. We hit a stretch…
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It’s 4:15pm on the side of route 70 in West Virgina and my odometer reads 146 miles on this tank just before the R90 dies. It didn’t sputter or slowly lose power, it just died. Once we finish coasting to the shoulder of the highway I begin to worry about the dreaded electronic ignition issues I had been having a…
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If you had told me a year or two ago that I would be doing this today, I’d probably say you were crazy. But here I am. One day down, twenty nine to go. The plan was to leave my house sometime around 7am. Well 7am rolled around and I was still waiting for Gomes, who was headed to Marco’s…
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Although we didn’t leave on time we made sure we were packed and ready to leave, so that at a moments notice if the bikes were set we could head out. At least I was. Pictured here are some of the items I, myself, packed. I know Gomes and Marco will have other accessories and items that they pack, such…
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Our planned departure date came and went but we remain grounded. We had planned to leave Friday, August 7th, in the early morning and get as many miles done in the first day as possible. Unfortunately life doesn’t always work out as planned and we found that out the hard way. My bike had been having some clutch issues which…
Comments closedEarlier this year Marco reached out to Gomes and myself and said he wanted to take a trip across the country on motorcycles. Gomes was in. I, of course, was reluctant. My bike wasn’t ready, we wouldn’t have enough prep time, getting the time off of work, etc. But, the seed had been planted. We met a few times and…
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