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| Horizons Unlimited - THE Motorcycle Travel site Horizons Unlimited - the website motorcycle travellers trust - E-zine, Bulletin Board, Community, tips, info In Category: Automotive | Rate This Forum! Body Text: Horizons Unlimited The website motorcycle travellers trust Hosted by Grant & Susan Johnson, RTW 1987-1998in co-operation with Subscribe to the e-zine In HUBB & Website HUBB only match All Any 3 days left before the HU travellers Meeting at Creel, Mexico, October 14-17. See you there! Check out the other Meetings too - Argentina is next! Home Johnsons' Trip Who Are We? E-zine Current Issue Archive Index Bulletin Board Intro Current Posts HU Souk HU Travellers Meetings Trip Planning Books Intro Why go? Where & When Border Crossing Country Info Bike Stuff Paperwork Getting There - You and the Bike Shipping - air and sea Equipment Safety and Health on the Road Living on the road Organised tours - getting started Travellers' Stories Links Travellers Tales Getting There Country Info Travel Equipment Tour Operators Online Tools and more! Community English en Francais en Espanol in het Nederlands Polski Misc Bike Tech Motorcycle Art Site Info Advertise here! Support our sponsors Compliments & Kudos Contact Us Contribute YOUR information! Guestbook Privacy Policy Search Site Map Recommend Us to a Friend! Your name: Your email: Friend's name: Friend's email: Details and more options here. Grant Johnson on a 'good road' in Malawi, Africa Are you a Motorcycle Traveller? Does the smell of spices wafting through the air make you think of Zanzibar, a cacophony of honking horns is Cairo, or a swirl of brilliantly patterned clothing Guatemala? Then this is the site for you! HU Travellers' Meetings You can meet people who don't think you're crazy for wanting to ride your bike to South America or Africa or across Asia, or even around the world! Share experiences and advice on how to do it, and maybe you'll meet them again in Mongolia or Timbuktu! Sign up now for the next Event! Mark your calendars for all the 2004/5 events and plan to attend at least one! Copper Canyon, Creel, Mexico, Second Annual Meeting, Oct 14 - 17, 2004 En español aquí Viedma, Argentina, Second Annual, December 3-5, 2004 Grant will be at the meetings in Revelstoke, Portugal and Mexico this year. Hope to see you there! Check out the latest... Horizons Unlimited Motorcycle Travellers Ezine for all the latest news from Travellers around the world, from Antarctica to Zanzibar! as of Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:31:09 -0400. 51st Edition, August/September 2004 "Ruts, constant gravel, sand, rocks the size of small houses and a pass at 4853 m's where I had to push a wee while. We made it though. The landscape was incredible also. Sometimes the road was actually quite good though, for a record breaking 40k or something like that. When this was the case it was incredible. Impossible switchbacks clinging to the mountainside, Indians giving me gringo jibes and snowcapped, massive, vegetation-clad mountains all around. It was nice. Sometimes, in fact twice, the road twisted down from a height of above 4000 metres 50 kilometres straight down to under 2000 metres. This was a lesson in what to wear because I was freezing in the morning and baking when it was time to eat that bread and butter that was probably melting by now."" Rupert Wilson-Young, UK, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, in Peru, Yamaha Vino 49cc, Read this newsletter! Motorcycle Travel Bulletin Board (The HUBB) The Problem: Getting current, useful information on the road conditions, border crossings, where to find spare parts, safe routes, etc. The Solution: Your meeting place - specifically for long distance motorcycle travellers. We invite you to share your information, travel tips, tales of woe and joy, everything that made (or broke!) your trip. Ask all the questions you want! With 3,200 enthusiastic members from around the world, someone is bound to have the answers you need. Recent topics have included: Side Panniers-how much load? Best all-around riding gear? Any ideas for monthly budgets? new Libyan visa regulation Security in Niger Enfield-Alley in Bombay or Goa Russia to Japan Crossing Africa on 2 motorbikes and many more! The end of Ruta Nacional Tres, as far south in the world as it is possible to ride, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. From the left, Roland, Martin, Max, Susan, Grant and Greg Motorcycle Travel - Trip Planning This section is to help you prepare for a trip yourself, whether it's just a few hundred kilometers - or miles - away, the next country, or even around the world. We will try to provide information which is specific to motorcycle travel, and particularly long-distance / life on the road type travel, and link to sites with general information on travel. Current information includes: Why go?, Choosing a bike, Paperwork, Shipping the bike, Border crossings, Living on the Road, Safety and Health on the Road, and Organised tours. The Copper Canyon in Mexico, Netherlands, Malaysia and Turkey information. We intend to put a lot of the information in ourselves, but we can't do it all. And that's where you come in. If you see a topic that you'd like to contribute to, let us know. We will be creating more forms, like the Shipping Form, which will make it easy for you to enter info and for us to update the site. Horizons Unlimited Motorcycle Travellers' Community The purpose of the Community is to enable motorcycle travellers, both those on the road and those at home, to meet up with like minded people. 289 Communities in 71 Countries as of August 16 2004! Links Page Our links page is justifiably famous, and includes well over 500 motorcycle travel links in over 20 categories: The whole enchilada, from the top... MC Travellers Tales Tour Operators Country Info People en route willing to help! Motorcycle Clubs, Events Riding Tips Technical Tips MC Dealers, Repair shops and info "on the road" Travel Equipment and much more! It takes a little - well okay, a long while to load, but it's worth it! Our Trip Around the World Grant and Susan Johnson's (your Horizons Unlimited hosts) motorcycle travel adventures around the world from north to south, two-up, by BMW motorcycle. Our own odyssey has spanned 13 years, 39 countries, over 100,000 km and produced 1000's of photos, (hundreds of which are on this site). Grant near Trujillo, Peru, crossing a temporary pipe bridge over a new river, compliments of El Niño Renting it? Shipping it? Why not exchange it instead? IMX - The new way to travel by motorcycle Translate page New Heaps of new Blogs (travellers stories) added! Pietro Spera, Italy, Uzbekistan to Italy how to! Jeff Nicholls, Canada, around Canada and to Alaska Jeremy Bullard, Uk, the Americas Richard Parkinson and Lisa Godfery, UK - NZ 2003 What people say about us "Unfortunately we are stuck here in the UK for a while, the e-zine is now a life line for us though. Whenever we look at it, it just makes you want to get on the bike and go again. Keep up the good work." Cliff & Jenny Batley, UK "simply the best motorcycle adventure site" Brian Coles, UK "I am finally leaving Cape Town for a solo trip to Cairo and, money permitting -beyond. This is the realization of a childhood dream for me. I would like to thank you guys for a Fantastic web page, it has been an endless source of inspiration and information for me. Sitting on the southern tip of Africa sometimes makes one feel isolated, not so with HU around! Thanks again, and maybe we meet on the road some day." James Mader, South Africa "Found this site just breezing thru the internet. I'm amazed there are people that think like I do. Just love to two-wheel travel. I will bookmark this address and come back often for help. Thank you very much." David Kazalunas, USA "This site is the BIBLE for international bike travelers." Greg Aldis, Australia more comments... Great American Motorcycle Tours Gary McKechnie New $13.97! Used $9.95! 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Thanks for the support!Motorcycle Travellers Stories (Blog XML Feeds) Tom Forde as of Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:31:11 -0400. 10-09-04 STAGE 5 - BACK INTO THAILAND I once again have to tend to Doris and my equipment, as the constant rain and bad LAO roads have taken their toll. I am glad I am riding a duel purpose bike; a big roadie would not have survived it.First of all the standard battery in the Dakar is up the shit, it is a standard type, which in the tropics, just looses water through evaporation, VERY RAPIDLY! At least every 2 weeks in these conditions.Secondly, I carry a co2 cylinder type pump, waste of time in these parts, carry a cheap foot pump, found in the markets for a couple of $, and some puncture patches, with a good sturdy pair of tyre levers. Richard Parkinson and Lisa Godfery as of Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:59:23 -0400. Indonesia - Sumatra, Java and Bali With itÂ’s steaming jungles, smoking volcanoes and pounding surf Indonesia is a land for adventure. Our first adventure was getting the bike over here. click here and see the bustling port we shipped from We had left B.O.B. (Brutish.Obsolete.Behemoth) in... Jeremy Bullard as of Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:59:24 -0400. Love Hotel They are easy to recognise. They are always on the outsk ... Keywords: Motorrad, Reisebericht, Reise, weltweit Reiseberichte, Reisen, Reiseveranstalter, Motorradreise, Motorradreisen, Reisefürer, Reiseinformation, Urlaub, Erlebnis, Abenteuer, Erholung, Spaß, Motorradtouren, Motorrad, BMW, |