Our bikes might make 240 miles… but, they might not. “Jethro,” the follow truck, will gas us all up at the half way mark, Atigun Pass. Coldfoot, in the old days a gold camp, is now a truck stop, with modular rooms for paying visitors, and a 24 hour restaurant, 60 miles north of the […]
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August 19th, Late Night, New Delhi Most of the group arrived very late in the night in New Delhi from all over the world. Rummy and exhausted, we went to our hotel, close to the airport. We all had a long layover there, and we opted to try to get some restful sleep before our
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Alaska’s Outback In search of Alaska’s Best Unknown Destinations Story by Lee Klancher Motorcycle Escape Magazine Fall 2006 “There’s no law north of the Yukon River, and no God north of the Arctic Circle.” -Alaskan saying At the Seaview Bar in Hope, Alaska (pop. 137), my buddy Peter Peil and I were enjoying an
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Above: The Denali Highway. The Denali Highway is a 115 mile long graded dirt road that runs between Paxon, on the Richardson Highway on the east, and Cantwell, on the Parks Highway on the west. We started our ride from the Tangle Lakes Lodge, our hotel stopping point, 20 miles along the Denali Highway from
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Hokkaido is the northern most island of Japan and features 20 percent of the country’s land mass with 5 percent of the population. Host to the largest national parks in Japan, this country is riddled with wild rivers, salmon runs, brown bears and a multitude of other wild critters. Untamed forests abound in this not
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Patagonia 2011 A Different Kind of Fun The group started arriving on Thursday and as I got off the plane, I noticed the tell tale riding jackets of motoadventurists. It was Jim and Nicole, fresh from Seattle and newly wed and ready for action! We caught up with Joanna, the fire plug from Poland and
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Above: Mwah (sic) at the Alaska Pipeline viewpoint 11 miles north of Fairbanks. Half the 800 mile long pipeline is above ground as seen in the pic. The pipeline has been placed above ground in locations where placing it underground would be inhibited by perma frost, or, where the potential for pipeline or environmental damage
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We heard the scream of the engine for three or four seconds before the bikes came into view. A man standing next to me said, “This must be a superbike.” A woman the other side of sixty responded, “No, that’s a sidecar.” The sidecar came into sight and I felt the roar in my chest.
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Hot Springs are a big part of the Japanese culture. There are thousands of developed natural hot springs all over the country. We at MotoQuest would like to share with you how to take a hot springs (Onsen) bath in Japan. Our Japan Tours feature Hot Springs almost every night! Steps on How to take
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414 miles of frost-heaves, broken chip seal and grated dirt surfaces, the Dalton Highway has its challenges. On a good day, you can ride it wide open. On a bad day, you can go home in a helicopter. Every year motorcyclists are killed on the Dalton Highway. This road offers the rider the adventure gamut.
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