Marmaris Extended

August 11, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
 

We were supposed to stay only 2 days in Marmaris, just to rest before continuing our journey to Greece, Marmaris is a very commercial touristic area full of -mostly- European young men and women who are asleep in the morning and drunkhaving sexfighting at night…even the beaches are bad compared to the ones we saw on the way at Fethiye and Alanya.

We had a change of plans, we will be staying until Friday…we met some locals and we told them that we don’t like it here so they decided to show us around and take us to a couple of places, places that are still pure, places that are real Turkish.

Good morning Marmaris

August 9, 2010 by · 8 Comments
 

1545km from our house in Syria to the Hotel in Marmaris, it was a fun and tiring ride…we rode day and night, on narrow twisty roads and on wide open highways, on road and off road, slept at five star hotels and on the sidewalk next to a gas station….went from zero to 2km elevation -according to Mr.Garmin-, we even rode thru the car shower with the bikes when the weather was hot.

We arrived early evening yesterday, unpacked took a shower and went down to check out the city, will be staying 2 nights then take the ferry to Rhodes. Read more

Destination Greece

August 6, 2010 by · 7 Comments
 

We were planing this trip of a while and were supposed to leave Kuwait back in July, but we had to postponed it hoping a couple of our friends will be able to join us, but unfortunately they couldn’t and we ended up only 2 -out of 4- me on my K1300R and my friend on his B-King

We left Kuwait Monday 9pm, reached Syria the next day around 5pm, we intended to stay only 2 days in Syria, rest the first day and ride around the next day.

We spent the first day at the pool, then went riding for around 5 hours between the villages in the mountains… we reached 950m elevation, we were literary over the clouds. Read more

Pirelli Diablo Corsa III

July 31, 2010 by · 4 Comments
 

I’ll just replaced the OEM tires of my K1300R with these Pirelli Diablo Corsa III, the OEM tires only have only around 3000 on them and they can still take another 2000km i think, but i need fresh tiers for my trip…tires that have a great grip and would last me the whole trip.

The Pirelli Diablo Corsa III is developed for both street and racetrack use, it’s a multi-compound tyre that offers the same pleasure of riding on tracks, and gives decent mileage levels on normal road use. The rear tyre is made of two compounds: a softer compound on the shoulder for perfect handling and corner grip, while the harder compound in the middle for better mileage levels. Read more

BMW Soft Bag 2 -Large-

July 30, 2010 by · 6 Comments
 

I’ll be going on a little bike trip next week, and i needed a bag to carry my stuff so i got this BMW bag…its a 55 liter soft bag with a semi hard bottom.

Its water proof and can sit on the pillion seat or on the luggage rack and strapped to the bike chassis, it comes with 6 pairs of straps -different sizes-, sidetop pockets, light reflectors, and a shoulder strap.

In case you need to know, i easily stuffed it with 16 t-shirts, 3 jeans, 3 shorts, 2 swimming shorts, 10 underwear’s, 3 pairs of shoes, a Flip-flop, socks, laptop, camera, chargers, toiletries, and the travel documents in the transparent upper pocket.

I like the quality of and design of the bag that i also got the smaller one -30 Liters-. Read more

Time for a vacation

June 25, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
 

One woman, one motorcycle

June 4, 2010 by · 5 Comments
 

For the 30-year-old Ania Jackowska, who travelled from Poland to Croatia, Portugal and the Middle East on two wheels, mascara is an important accessory. “I have to take care of my motorcycle, of course, but I also have to look after myself. I’m a woman and I don’t want to forget that while I am travelling,” she says. “I always take a short dress with me, too, even though I probably won’t wear it, but just to remember that I am a woman!”

Ania is a solo long-distance motorcycle rider, and went on a 10,000km journey through the Middle East in 2009, in which she explored Damascus, Jordan, Amman, Petra, Aqaba, Syria and Turkey.

“In Islamic countries, it is necessary for lone female riders to forget they are a woman and not expose their sexuality,” she says. “You can smile to other people, but you can’t giggle and laugh too much. You can be kind, but not too kind. You have to remember the cultural differences all the time in order to travel safely.” Read more

Shake that…

June 3, 2010 by · 1 Comment
 

Just came back form a track evening at the Autodrom in Dubai.

It was a open pit evening from 7-9pm, meaning you are not restricted to the 20 minutes sessions… you can go into the pit and back to the track whenever you like.

Since we came all the way from Kuwait, we didn’t want to waste anytime on the bit and we were doing lap after lap after lap in around 50% humidity and a 40c temperature -with leathers on-….we only rested for about 15min when one of the riders crashed and they had to remove his bike of the track and check the track for any oil spell.

Did we learn anything this time?

Yes we did, a lot…but the most important thing is that we need to be in a top physical condition to enjoy the track, it was so hard moving our butts from side to side after a couple of laps.. so we decided to start doing Aerobic classes… apparently all the treadmilling and weight lifting we have been doing for years is worth nothing on the track.

Scotland Tour on R1200RT

May 29, 2010 by · 5 Comments
 

This videos makes me wana go places, my heart skips a beat every time i watch it.

An evening at the Autodrom

May 25, 2010 by · 12 Comments
 

A couple of weeks ago we got an email from Ducati UAE inviting us to the opening of the Dubai showroom, we were also asked to register for a chance to win a one-to-one session with Troy Bayless.

We had the time so we decided to drive 1300km to Dubai, be part of the event, race our bikes at the Autodrom, and have dinner with Troy Bayliss.

I had some complications and i ended up flying to Dubai while my friend towed the bikes alone all the way to Dubai, and from the photo above i think he enjoyed the 1300km drive to Dubai 😉 Read more

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