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Hello, ADVrider inmates and esteemed visitors, and welcome to Photos Of The Week Number 1 for the New Year. We have no idea what 2023 will bring us, and there are certainly some interesting possibilities. We’re betting that whatever happens on the world stage, you will be writing your own scripts to the best of your abilities, and we’ll find you out there in the Great Big Wild, riding motorcycles old and new and finding places of adventure and wonder. This week, for starters, our Featured Image comes from @alpina, who shares with us “another great ride of 2022, riding through the red rocks in the front range west of Denver,” which is in Colorado, USA. Alpina says he took the picture a few months ago with a Panasonic TS-25 weatherproof camera, and that’s his 2021 Suzuki DR650 in the photo. The white snow, blue sky, and red rocks make Colorado even more appealing than its history-making fact of holding the world’s first rodeo (as well as the 1935 invention of the cheeseburger, according to the Internet, which never gets something wrong). Cheeseburgers, rodeos, red rocks and DR650s, what’s not to love?
Afternoon of the Beemer
Don’t those two motorcycles look like the best of buddies? According to @R80GSEric, they are an ’86 R80 G/S and an ’83 R80 ST, and were photographed in California in December.
First ride to Big Sur’s Bixby Bridge on newly acquired R80 ST we got for my son. The ST is in superb condition, and we will upgrade the shock and put a period correct 21˝ G/S front wheel to make it a tasteful G/S-T.
Not so much fun in Peru
We’re not sure of the significance of the tipped-over bike pictures, but it sounds like @JuddS is wishing for better things on the remainder of his round-the-world tour on a 2018 Triumph Tiger 800XcA. See the story in his words below.
Flew to Peru for my next leg of my ATW and the president decided to get arrested. Protests galore. Got beaten with big bats at one of the road blocks and ended up in hospital. Then stuck in Cusco for a week while airport is closed. Some legs of this trip are more fun than others. . . .
JuddS says the photos above were taken in December. We thank him for the contribution to POTW, and we wish JuddS good luck and happy times for the rest of his tour!
Wax on, wax off, and . . . wait for spring
“The running joke,” says, @Vcomeau, “is that every time I sit on a motorcycle, it snows.” We don’t find that joke exactly hilarious, but we do sympathize, and we thank Mr. Comeau for the pix of his long-gone 1989 RZ350, made by Yamaha.
At the tail end of 1991 I bought a leftover 1989 RZ350 for the princely sum of 3900 Canadian dollars. Taxes in and out the door. Not long after in February of ´92, my hometown of Dieppe, New Brunswick, got 161 centimetres, or 61 inches, of snow in three days. I spent the rest of that winter waxing the bike while it was in storage, waiting for spring to come. It took forever but after the “great melt” and the initial new motor break-in period I got the bike loaded up and headed across the American border for what would be roughly a week long trip.
Down the coast of Maine with a right turn at Portland. Into New Hampshire through the White Mountains, crossing into Vermont as I headed north to jump over the border again into la belle province of Quebec. After a quick visit with a friend in Sherbrooke I headed east again, bypassing the larger cities of Montreal and Quebec City as I had no inclination to get run over by some of the worst drivers in North America.
Riding unfamiliar roads in the rain, I missed my exit at Rivière du Loup which detoured me along a part of the Gaspé coast. Realizing my mistake I found a road that took me inland and eventually crossed into the city of Campbellton on the New Brunswick side. I rode along the northeast coast visiting friends and family to finally arrive home again.
Paper maps. Film camera. No cell phone and bottles of injection oil. It’s been 30 years and I sorely miss that bike. But to be honest, my biggest regret is not having taken more pictures and kept a diary of it all. The tangible memories would be priceless to me now.
Speaking of snow . . .
The 2018 KTMs, 2018 Husky, and 2015 Yamaha YZ250F in the photo below were pictures a few years ago by @Flyfish in the barn of his ranch in Iowa. “The snow was sticky and made us feel like Mert Lawwill pitching it sideways!”
A rare event
Here is the Dartmouth Dam in Victoria, Australia, “spilling for the first time in 27 years,” says our contributor, @Old Queenslander. He was riding a 1979 Yamaha SR500 when this photo was taken a few months ago.
Love on a Grom
Here is the 2019 Honda Grom that @Motomike14 and fiancé rode after getting married on New Year’s Eve. Story in his words below. Love that T, Mr. Moto.
We decided to both take a chance riding at a special event called “The Woodsman Cup” at an undisclosed location somewhere in Florida. We started “last” in the couples/throuples “race” but made our way onto the podium using the horn and some sneaky line choices (read: not using the brakes). There was a lot of “please don’t hurt us” comments being ripped off but blocked that out for 10 minutes to have the time of our life.
A state of readiness
Below the “just purchased” 2023 IKTM 500 EXC-F owned by @Squid22, who was “getting it ready for adventure.” Photo taken just before Christmas.
Speaking of Christmas
Below, the pictures you’ve been waiting for a bit too long (sorry we couldn’t post these in December!) form our good friend Tjilpi in Thailand. That’s a 2018 Honda Super Cub that @Mr. Claus is riding.
I performed my annual transformation into Santa and had the use of this little Cub this time. Just a slow dawdle around my local area here in northern Thailand. The locals are all Buddhists of course, but love the Christmas story and celebrations so why not spread some good cheer?
Polite, grateful and self-controlled kids they were, too.
The show must not go on
We close our initial foray into the world of great adventure photography for 2023 with a contribution from @The Bear, who says he was photographed on a 2022 Suzuki GSX-S1000GS a few weeks ago “in the small NSW town of Binnaway, where there is an amateur theatre (in the background) that I have never seen open.”
Photo by The Bear’s friend Mike Grant, “on the way to the Siding Spring optical observatory.” Well, let’s hope the show at the observatory made up for the empty stage in Binnaway, New South Wales, Australia.
And that’s it for week no. 1 folks, but come back next week and we’ll have more. Till then, ride safely and adventurously, and have a very happy 2023!
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