N.J. – Page 18 – OneWheelDrive.Net

Dempster Highway – The Mud-Beast Bares its Fangs

So you want to motorcycle the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, NWT? If you we’re smart you’d wait for a couple of nice dry days, but we never claimed to be smart. We head out onto the fabled road in the rain to experience its worst as we ride beyond the Arctic Circle…

Stark Places – The Dempster Highway

By the term “highway”, don’t confuse the Dempster with the paved varicosities that strangle our modern world. A product of its environment this is a filament of the south sent out like an infection, and the land does its best to fight it off.

New Rider Experience – IV: Legalities and Spidey Senses

In part four of OWD Advertising Executive Jennifer Priest’s new rider series, she lands her license, but learns an important lesson about intuition and riding.

Challenges

On a good day the road from Dease Lake to Telegraph Creek, BC is an ethereal dirt cavort through scenery composed of precipitous canyons sheered into lava by erosive rivers. Add one night of rain and it goes from being one the world’s greatest driveways to one of the most terrifying.

New Rider Experience – III: The Mean Streets

In part three of OWD Advertising Executive Jennifer Priest’s new rider series the Pacific Riding School takes her to the streets, where Jen finds herself well prepared for the obligatory close call with a Vancouver driver.

Off Course

We’re off course, and we don’t need a map or GPS to tell us so. We’re headed south-west rather than north-west thanks to a wrong turn off of the Blackwater Forest Service Road and onto Batnuni, above the sky is darkening and the sun diminished to a glowing red-orange ember. Below me the BMW F800GS…

Departures

With a personal riding history is littered with a disturbing pattern of rough departures, the OWD team heads north for the Arctic Circle, after a very slow start.

New Rider Experience – II: You Mean I Actually Get to Ride It?

In part two of OWD Advertising Executive Jennifer Priest’s new rider series the Pacific Riding School puts her on course to a bike and license with a lot of practice in a lot.

Learning from the New Rider

How quickly do we forget what it’s like to be a new rider? The accumulation of experience can eventually drown out the novelty of riding and wonder of what a motorcycle can do and represent. We kick ourselves for not throwing a knee down in the corner, we twiddle suspension settings looking to eke out…

New Rider Experience – I: Into the Classroom to Fulfil a Dream

Being a new rider doesn’t mean you have to learn the hard way as OWD Advertising Executive Jennifer Priest heads to Pacific Riding School to fulfil her dream of a bike and license in Part One of four.

Packing Light – The Best Gear for Adventure Part II

Back-country enthusiast, lifetime rider, mountaineer, hiker, and outdoor retailer, Jayson Faulkner, offers advice to save wayward adventure motorcyclists from being buried under an avalanche… of their own gear! Here’s how to travel light without forgoing comfort be it for a weekend or for months on the road. This week the evil that is cooking.

Sights and Sounds of ADVRider’s Big Trailie Ride 4

A bit of a video departure for us as we bring you the sights and sounds of ADVRider.com’s 2009 BC Big Tralie Ride 4. So, grab a coffee, turn the screen away from the cubical entrance and revel in BC’s best adventure riding scenery.