Here’s an early birthday gift, somewhere behind me is a Honda Accord with all the KTM’s overstuffed luggage and then some. Admittedly having a well-used front-wheel drive as a sag wagon diminishes the adventure a of riding from Wildwood to Barkerville, BC the “back way”, but it’s giving me a taste of what this bike can really do. Oh, dear gawd, it’s bloody dirt-road ambrosia with a chaser of complete hoonery thrown in.
Category: Canada
North: The KTM Summer of Adventure – 2: Tyax Lodge to Egg Lake
Tyax Lodge, outside of Gold Bridge, B.C., feels deserted. A fabulous location, picturesque to the point of overload, Tyax should be bustling at the seams with tourists. Instead it’s quiet to the point of being our private lodge. There’s no menu for breakfast, the Chef simply prepares what you ask for free form. The ride…
North: The KTM Summer of Adventure – 1: Vancouver to Tyax Lodge
In the history of slow starts this has been epic. Hannibal had an easier time wrestling up some elephants and infantry, than my getting out on the road the past few days. Yet, sitting here at Tyax lodge I’m hard pressed to be more satisfied with the first day of “North: The KTM Summer of Adventure”.
R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part II
“It’s going to be the, ‘I rode one of these in the war’ story”, I joke as we watch two elderly gentlemen appraise the three bikes. BMWs it seems are some of the most approachable bikes, in part I think due to the sense of history they imbue. The door opens and the white haired…
R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part I
We ascend into Manning Park to the aeronautic thrum of the three horizontally opposed twin engines as the BMW R1200RT, R1200ST and R1200GS Adventure sweep though in single file. April’s rugged meteorological terrain has been washed over with summer’s sheen, with the sun beating the snow back into the trees along British Columbia’s Highway 3. …
Oliver’s Mixed Notes
Tendrils of golden “Dirty Laundry” Gwurtzraminer trail down the glass’s interior. The taste, even to my limited palette, is fruity, clean, and lingering. Looking up at the wine board in the Toasted Oak Wine Bar and Grill it advertises Wine Flight Wednesday. I deliberate over the cost of staying at the Cactus Tree Inn, a…
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