Modern engineering might be clever, but often not solid. Modern engineering is about cost efficiency, to save material or allow use of cheap material. The statement is founded on experiences made in recent time. I am referring to experiences made June 2018, when I had my motorcycle incident in Germany. Read about the details here…read more>>
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Mid-March is a climatically confusing period
Mid-March is a climatically confusing period in the SometimesBackwardsKingdom of Nor-Way. People (some) long (strongly) for spring. However, a) very b) awfully frequently these people find themselves in a emotional, fictitious battle. This battle takes place, every other day, with the not-to-want-to-perish King Winter. All while his “autobot” cannons, fires off an impressive amount of…read more>>
Months of waiting, but soon over
Months of waiting is soon over. Later half of February I was briefly “reunited” with my bike. I’d not seen it since I left it at my dealer late August 2018. Since then it’s been given a complete overhaul. When I say complete, I really mean… complete. What happened? Full details you can, if you…read more>>
Started with rant, evolved into a point (?)
It started with me being reminded by “FnordsBook”. Thrown in my face logging in this morning. On this exact day exactly one year ago, to be exact. It was a pretty uninteresting picture taken out of a window on second floor, showing how much snow we had, and how much had fallen during the night….read more>>
Rothenburg & south – 2018 Summer adventure (Part 6)
Rothenburg ob der Tauber is an old Bavarian city, situated along the Romantic Road, or “Der Romantische Strasse”. I rode past, and missed it, in 2016. A visit was not a part of the “plans” this year, originally. Things change, plans change Since i’d been advised by BMW not to go through Switzerland after repairs,…read more>>
Choices & Decisions – 2018 Summer adventure (Part 4)
Choices and decisions, we face those every day. The morning of June 27th was definitely going to be about choices and decisions for me as well. My adventure however, go or no go, was in the hands of fate, and BMW Motorrad. Damage assessment Got up early, for a breakfast, for packing, and was outside…read more>>
2018 Summer adventure, the beginning (Part 1)
2018 Summer adventure on two wheels was an awesome experience. Even if things didn’t go as planned, with incidents I could have done well without (more later), surely was an adventure! I could write that in BIG letters! 2018 Summer trip with new route Unlike the previous year, and the year before, I had decided…read more>>
A Karoo Street road test
A Karoo Street first real road test came came May 2017. I did ca. 415 kilometers, or 258 miles, on various types of surfaces. My previous tire choice you can read about here. Just to have that out in the open: am not a professional tester, professional rider, nor a journalist. And I don’t pretend…read more>>
Tire-some topic (again), and a “bold” decision
Tire-some yet important topic for us who rides motorcycles. I am talking about tires. I see lots of praise, of many types of tires. Most of them more offroad biased, at the expense of tarmac handling, durability, noise and a bunch of other considerations. A brilliant tire decision, for me Last year, as the first…read more>>
Spring time in Norway, bad roads and hazards
Spring time! It feels so damn good. The sun might not be directly basking down on the winter frozen inhabitants of Norway just yet. But the weather report are good, and it is picking up speed now! Spring time & first rides of the year April 12th was the day for me, to go and…read more>>