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This picture pretty much says it all. There is a new moto in the posse. Darth takes delivery of the new BMW F800 GS. The Blue Angel is for sale, first $6995 takes it.
Finally on American soil, Darth Nater can hardly wait to get this thing into real dirt.
Video posted on Youtube from the Day 1 of Loop the Lake. We started in the rain, and the ride from Einstein’s in Olympus Hills to last gas in Cedar Fort was about as hairball as it got all day.
An affiliate adventure posse from Oregon, led by Rob McCready, sent in some photos and commentary about a recent outing in Oregon. Rob had looked me up, after hearing about our recent Trans-America Trail ride into Oregon, wondering if we had crossed the Discovery Route and ran into any snow. Turns out, Rob used to work with my friend Gary Huck at Summit, and Gary put us in touch, being familiar with itsallaboutthebike.com. Rob and company were taking the Discovery Route #4, from Prineville to Seneca, Oregon, all on dirt. And mud. And snow, as you can see below. Rob was riding a silver KTM 950 Adventure, his buddies on various BMW GS models: Scott Norton on the red GS, Pete Day on the black Adventure, and Dave Combe on the black GS. Click the photos below and they will link you to these and some more recently uploaded images of this adventure in our Flickr gallery, along with colorful commentary from Rob.
Photo by Rob McCready
Photo by Rob McCready
Photo by Rob McCready
Keeping the posts updated on the road proved to be a challenge. Until I have a chance to go back and place images in the context of the posts, you can see a sampler of photos I took with an iPhone on Flickr:
When Darth and Obi-Ben return to civilization, we’ll upload some of their shots and video.