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With our route changes, we ended up close to 1400 miles on back country from Porthill to Northern Utah! We took in 1 section of Montana BDR and 1 section of the Utah BDR as part of our route around hundreds of fallen trees and avoiding extreme heat by going east to higher elevation. Above…

In this blog article, I’m going to describe the howto of how I used MoskoMoto Wedge mount plates on GiantLoop Round the World (RTW) bags. WHY? The main reason is for future flexibility. The MoskoMoto Wedge will fit almost any luggage racks on a motorcycle. I do like the tusk racks with the top rack…

Trail conditions this year (Nov 2025) is excellent. The silt pits are nonexistant which means a much much easier climb for sandhill (counter clockwise). I’ve done whiterim a few times clockwise, but never counter clockwise. I like that you get the challenges over with doing it counter clockwise. We had 9 riders, half of those…

Welcome to my report (after action report) of BlackBear Pass! I was able to do this SOLO on my Tenere 700. During the biggest challenges, I never put a foot down (Dab’d) nor dropped my bike! My Tenere 700 loaded was about 550 lbs! My backpack was close to 20-25 lbs. Plus all my riding…

My last day of Baja riding was ruined because of a rear wheel bearing. It was so bad (I had to ride it 10+ miles to get to town) I had to replace the entire wheel. Luckily for the ktm 500 tusk has a entire wheel for $300 ish. Last weekend, my Tenere 700 rear…

I’ve been dreaming of doing this ride for so so long. It has taken a lot of rides to work up to this and a lot of work and planning to be prepared for success! This is my 3rd trip to Alaska. 1st was a 10y anniversary cruise to Alaska. A few years ago my…

SUMMARY: 10x better than I thought and 100x better than Nov 2021 with the big bike (Tenere 700) as I cooked in the heat everyday working hard in the sand with a 500+lbs bike, so nice to be on a KTM 500 that was 250 ish lbs and could really have fun off road and…

I’ve had my ktm 500 for a few years(Sept 2022 I finally talked my buddy into selling me his ktm 500), but I mostly ride my 300 2stroker and Tenere 700. But I love having the 500 around for “tour of Idaho” or GRIT or small dual sport needs. I’ve had it as a timbersled…

I have a klim baja s4 jacket and its my all time fav moto jacket because it is so cool in hot weather and I just add a rain jacket when its cold/wet. I’ve been using it for 5 ish years and its my most used moto gear for ADV (dirt biking is the Mojave…

Last October I bough a “fixer upper” for a winter project bike. It was a super super good deal as it was the weekend before snow storm coming in. I liked the idea of a heavy, shaft drive bike to ride to Alaska summer of 2025.Heavy means, amazing wind buffeting abilities. No matter what I…