A stylish and focused navigation system that can handle all-day riding, GPX imports and can save your smartphone. The route planning isn’t class leading though. I’m testing this to see if it will work on my 10k km, 6 week tour.
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Moto Guzzi V85TT Travel Review – A Very Long Distance Touring Adventure Bike?
It was never on my list but I am now the owner of a Moto Guzzi V85TT Travel, 2022. Unexpected? Yes. Exciting? Yes. Will it tour? That’s the plan, and this is how it’s going. Read my ongoing, updating, extended review.
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CFMoto 800 MTX and Kawasaki KLE 500 test ride
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The Best Motorcycle for a 10000 km European Tour
There are three rules to consider when choosing a bike for a 10000 km tour:
- Better the devil you know.
- The bathtub theory.
- Every bike works, until you need to fit in with a group.
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The best portable music player for your European biking trip
Your smartphone does everything, but do you really want to use it for streaming music or MP3 playback when you really should be preserving battery life for route planning, navigation, weather forecasting and the all-important messages and pics to your friends and social platforms? And besides that, the speaker is useless and your Bluetooth headphones need charging!
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Calimoto App Review. (Independent)
I’ve just clocked over
(more…)4500km6500km7600km8100km of tracked routes in the Calimoto motorcycle route planner, speed camera alert and route tracker. I’ve been a private subscriber since 2021 and I’ll probably stay that way because whether it’s a quick round trip or a five day tour, Calimoto has become an essential part of my equipment. In fact, Calimoto is likely to become my daily route planner for a 10k km tour in 2027.