Touring with your touring bike
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Trailer threads, oil threads and helmet threads seem to go forever.
Many times the original poster will start the discussion and disappear.
Kinda like farting by the party punch bowl and walking away to monitor the situation.
Many times the original poster will start the discussion and disappear.
Kinda like farting by the party punch bowl and walking away to monitor the situation.
Road Captain
Joined: Dec 2010
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To me it's about doing more with less. Love to head out alone with a tarp, bag, stove and end up where I end up...no plans, just a direction, maybe a destination...it's embracing my idea of freedom in America. I go for a week a couple times a year. I meet and talk to fellow travelers and am respectful...never know what wounds a person is licking.
Road Captain
Joined: Nov 2014
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From: Buhl, Idaho
Touring?
Most of the 108,000 miles on my '08 FLHT have been touring all over the west, and across the divide. That's why I bought the thing. To each their own, but to me, being a "biker" means you actually ride the thing. Hauling it around just isn't the same. I've paid my weather dues, just like many, many others. Been burnt in the desert, and frozen during winter rides. But I'm still gonna ride it. You can figure it out yourself how much I ride. I usually put in between sixty to seventy hours a week as a trucker, so when I ride, it's NOT just to the local pub. But, that IS what touring bikes are made for, right?
Road Master
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 1,156
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From: Ill Annoy
Most of the 108,000 miles on my '08 FLHT have been touring all over the west, and across the divide. That's why I bought the thing. To each their own, but to me, being a "biker" means you actually ride the thing. Hauling it around just isn't the same. I've paid my weather dues, just like many, many others. Been burnt in the desert, and frozen during winter rides. But I'm still gonna ride it. You can figure it out yourself how much I ride. I usually put in between sixty to seventy hours a week as a trucker, so when I ride, it's NOT just to the local pub. But, that IS what touring bikes are made for, right?
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From: outskirts of ba habba
and if I am still residing up here in the ice, snow, and cold climate...
I will put my bike inside a trailer and haul it well south of the hazardous road conditions.
Trailer Haters will always have their own ideas/opinions why trailering is 'not
what a "real biker" would do' ....
If someone trailers or not, doesn't change my perception of them what so ever.....I will base my opinions of them on their attitudes and actions.
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