My style of riding has evolved through the years and as of late it's been Dual Sporting and Adventure Touring.
I have been playing the odds, odds that something catastrophic was going to happen to me if I didn't start slowing down and start seeing some scenery. I had spent at least 12 years riding like public roads were my personal race track. Close calls, Oh shit's and watching friends crash, some with serious injury.
The logical next step would be to ride and enjoy seeing all of the great sites afforded from sitting on a vehicle and not caged by steel peering through glass. God only knows there are probably 9 years of ribbon that have been races on with no awarness of my surrondings. You don't have to be good at math to figure out, there's a lot of country I havent seen.
The two bikes prior to the Tiger was an 07 KLR 650 and the latter a 04 KTM 950 Adventure. The KLR was a total Compromise bike meaning that it didn't excel at anything but would do just about everything well. I really loved the bike.
The KTM was for me just plain fun. It did everything well but was more suited to be ridden by a seven foot tall Scandinavian. A rangy one. The KTM also didn't help in the get humble and slow down department. It was like the little devil sitting on my left shoulder taunting me to be stupid.
The little devil must have done something to the little angel cuz I never heard another voice.
Selling the KTM was in my best interest and buying something more suited for touring would have to happen.
More to come................
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