by Chris Wiltshire | Aug 25, 2024 | Major Posts, Motorcycling
We’re pretty proud of this one. The CONCERT 1000 PLATINUM. When Bill and I were planning the August 2024 riding trip we had an idea of what we wanted to do, including the 4 Corners and the Trans Canada rides, we’d also kept an eye out to see where Los...
by Chris Wiltshire | Aug 16, 2024 | Major Posts, Motorcycling
The Southern California Motorcycling Association offer a USA Four Corners Tour – which is a challenge issued to riders to visit and document their arrival at the four corners of the USA. The points designated to be the Four Corners are: Madawaska, Maine. Blaine,...
by Chris Wiltshire | Apr 5, 2023 | IBR2023, Major Posts, Motorcycling
9 weeks today, we leave for the USA to compete in the Iron Butt Association’s – Iron Butt Rally (IBR). For those of you who don’t know much about this, it’s arguably the pinnacle of long distance rallying in the world. This is an 11 day event...
by Chris Wiltshire | May 17, 2022 | IBR2023, Major Posts, Motorcycling
For the Senior Butt Rally 2022 and the IBR 2023, I want to fit an Aux Tank to my Concours 1400, and aim for a fuel range of around 400+ miles ~650km. I have some wider plans in terms of what tank, how to mount it etc, and all of these are contained by not wanting to...
by Chris Wiltshire | Mar 26, 2022 | Major Posts, Motorcycling
Days since the start of the 2023 IBR Days to the 2023 IBR It’s been a fairly busy and full on start to the year so far; work was busy through Jan and Feb for both Stella and myself, leading up to leaving for the South Island on the 16th Feb for 2.5 weeks...
by Chris Wiltshire | Oct 29, 2021 | Major Posts, Motorcycling
Planning / Background The IBA have an In-State series, and as a sub-part of that, they also list an ‘In-City’ series too. These tend to be one-offs done by special nut-jobs who are happy to ride around a single city for 24 hours, riding the minimum...