They seem to be a good outfit but I’ve never done one of their tours. Or any other outfit’s tours. So, you’d recommend Edelweiss?
Highly. They are a little pricey but everything is 1st class all the way. Food, hotels, bikes, guides, etc
I’ve heard good things about them as well from Canadian riders.
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Verge is very interesting and their companion Donut Batteries is causing much controversy.
Real world it is worth watching Marc of Marc Travels as he takes the Verge on a 11k m tour through Europe.
I mostly enjoy his posts and have followed him since he started taking Eve -
an earlier EV on a 60k km ride from Berlin to Indonesia.
I’ve watched and enjoyed some of those Marc Travels. I didn’t realize (or had forgotten) that he was on a Verge.
I just booked a Verge test ride for Saturday. I’ll check it out but I imagine it’ll be very similar to my Zero DSRX. I do like the range on the Verge, though.
I’ll move soon on selling the DSRX, when I get home this week.
Marc indicated more power, somewhat better range, better suspension and much faster charging and that’s before the SSB batteries.
Cool.
In Manila, to share the experience a little, the motorcycle rental office was a bit… ‘rustic’. To enter the office you had to squeeze between bikes and at one point, step over a front tire. Here is the office in its entirety.
That looks much neater than any bike / motorcycle / ATV / 4WD vehicle rental place I’ve ever used in Latin America. Equally crowded, but much more organized.
Yes. Makes me want to venture out with my cruiser. I’ve never gone farther that 70 miles and dang if I didn’t have a tire valve failure doing that. Fortunately I carry a powered compressor.
I have my Verge TS Pro test ride tomorrow morning. I’ll report in with that experience.
I’ll ride my GS to the Verge dealer. It’ll be my first time riding the GS since returning from the Philippines. I admit that I’m a little intimidated by the GS’s height after spending a month on the little Honda NX500.
And, a friend of my brother’s is borrowing my Zero DSRX. I’ll have to collect it and put it up for sale.
Think Nike: Just Do It. Just go!
I just tuned in to 450 Supercross and learned that Ducati has a dirtbike! I had no idea.
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The top seven in the heat race I just watched was Suz, KTM, KTM, Duc, 2 Huskys and a Yamaha. Man, I’ve been out of the loop too long.
I’d like to do some kind of Route 66 run or pick out museums around the country and ride to them. I can’t even imagine doing what you’ve done overseas.
Magyver how old are you? Where located.
My understanding of Route 66 it’s prettty boring but that may be different for different bikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIXzkqOmazo &1
. There are wonderful routes all through the US and Canada for riding with reviews and maps.
I’m of retirement age. I’ve taken a pasting with health issues that have taken exercise down a notch. I tire easily. I’m hoping to hit the bicycle trails this year. I bought a magnetic exercise bike to get things going.
As usual, it’s a desmodromic valve system. I wonder how often the rockers have to be shimmed.
Interesting, because they’re finally going away from desmo for the sport bikes. Thinking back to my last desmo Multistrada, they really had the service intervals thing down because I don’t think I had a valve service until 18,000 miles, and that was with all the new variable valve timing tech.
I wish Honda would bring their electrically supercharged V3 to market. It sounds intriguing. On-demand supercharger that isn’t adding drag to the engine. Instant throttle response that turbo’s don’t have.
I’d like to test it against the CB1000 Hornet SP. Having a substantial increase in torque over the Hornet would seem to make the supercharged engine much more street-able.
I towed my bike down to Hollister yesterday and had a heated Corbin saddle installed. My pics are posted in this thread:
➜ Motorcyclists: I’m looking for a replacement saddle - #7 by Bullitt 
Mike Corbin himself stopped in briefly. He said he started building saddles in the late 1960s while he was living in Connecticut and working at Pratt & Whitney there. When he told a friend he was quitting Pratt & Whitney to make motorcycle saddles full time, his friend said it’ll never work because motorcycles already have saddles on them.
Great story. I recall early on in my 62 year riding career BF and I drove from Toronto to Indiana to pick up a Vetter fairing for his CB750F ….found out half way there he could not keep awake at the wheel so I drove and he talked.
We are still in touch tho he gave up his Goldwing a while back for 2 seater BMW. Wish I could sort the seating on my 2014 CB500FA but then my rides are getting shorter and shorter ….gold star day if I do over 200 km. Getting old sucks
Best seat I ever had was the RDL on my Burgman 650 Exec. Did back to back 1,000 km days riding The James Bay road. Had the one with the backrest….amazing seat.
Finally got to ride with my Scorpion EXO-R1 Air with the Cardo Packtalk NEO installed, and I’m very happy.
Today is another high wind, high fire danger day, so going 70MPH into 25-35MPH winds is about worst case for helmet noise and helmet audio. With ear plugs and the volume turned up, I could clearly hear my podcasts the entire time. The audio was clean and intelligible even playing at 1.8 speed.
Voice control worked with only a slightly raised voice, not the yelling like I had to do with the Sena Phantom helmet. Having to say “hey Cardo, next track” to skip ahead 30 seconds is a bit annoying; it would be much better if I could just say “skip”, but it’s good enough when my left hand is busy. A single tap on the media button is easy when my hand is available.