Arctic Adventure: The Dempster – Part 3
Wed, 23/06/10 – 17:49 | Comment

The OneWheelDrive.Net team has faced the Dempster when it’s wet and cold, but now we’re confronted by something we’ve never contemplated. The Dempster on a gorgeous fall day in August when everything goes right. Join us for the conclusion of Dempster: Road to the Arctic.

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Valdez, AK – Everything for a Reason
Wednesday, 7 Oct, 2009 – 14:17 | Comment
Valdez, AK – Everything for a Reason

“We’re going to get wet.” That’s pretty much Glenn’s end statement on the matter as we look down the Richardson Highway from Gakona and into a black wall of cloud veiling the mountains in the distance and Valdez, AK beyond.

Denali Highway – One Yurt, Hold the Testicles
Monday, 28 Sep, 2009 – 18:58 | Comment
Denali Highway – One Yurt, Hold the Testicles

Can you really go wrong with a morning that starts in a yurt? Especially if the evening before was 100% boiled goat testicle free and featured a nice red wine rather than fermented yak milk? The yurt at Carlos Creek Campground in Denali is a long ways from roughing it in Mongolia and is more Ikea does yurt…

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 5 – A Matter of Necessity
Wednesday, 23 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 5 – A Matter of Necessity

Will the marine layer ever relent?
Into Crescent City the “jumps” have been lengthened to the 1098S’ maximum safe range, 120 miles, out of necessity.  In response, my body is betraying me.    That’s making it …

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 4 – 80 Miles
Monday, 21 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 4 – 80 Miles

I’ve made navigational errors before, tons of them, but this one feels profound.  The fog is so dense I can hardly make out the cat’s eye reflectors on the road in the 1098S’s projectors and …

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 3 – Here There be Turkeys
Thursday, 17 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 3 – Here There be Turkeys

L.A. … The 1098S slices northwards on the 405 out of Irvine between columns of traffic trudging forwards like workers in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.  Even with the Ventura luggage, I’m the widest thing on the …

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 2 – The 1098GT
Wednesday, 16 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 2 – The 1098GT

“They took my Allen keys from my at security,” on the phone photographer Kevin Miklossy sounds disgusted, “you need a 6mm and a 3mm.  Does the Ducati toolkit have them?”
I laugh, “You’re joking right.”
The 1098S …

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part I – The World’s Fastest Sport-Tourer
Monday, 14 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part I – The World’s Fastest Sport-Tourer

Sitting long, low and sepia-lit in the evening sun at Alice’s on Skyline Road the 1098S projects sensuality and anticipation of acceleration so pure it borders on erotic; needing only to shed vestigial street fitments …

Return to the Lost Coast
Sunday, 11 Feb, 2007 – 12:33 | Comment
Return to the Lost Coast

It is September 2003, and the chugging of my new VTEC VFR’s ABS, normally so subtle and elegant as to be unnoticed in all but the direst of conditions, gives me notice that we have …

OWD Roadshow: Ridge Crest to Las Vegas
Monday, 19 Apr, 2004 – 0:00 | Comment
OWD Roadshow: Ridge Crest to Las Vegas

130 mph is indicated on the speedo as the bikes shoot arrow-straight across Death Valley’s floor. The road may be linear in direction but the warning signs of dips are not to be disregarded. …

OWD Roadshow: Buttonwillow to Ridge Crest
Sunday, 18 Apr, 2004 – 0:00 | Comment
OWD Roadshow: Buttonwillow to Ridge Crest

It’s 0 Celsius, we’re navigating though the occasional bout of slush and the bikes are now thoroughly coated with sand, gravel, salt and road spray. I haven’t had time to plug in the heated …

OWD Roadshow: San Francisco to Button Willow
Saturday, 17 Apr, 2004 – 0:00 | Comment
OWD Roadshow: San Francisco to Button Willow

It’s 7:20AM and we’re burning down the freeway with Evan Leung, OWD contributor and friend, in the lead. Our destination for the day is Buttonwillow, CA, but for the moment we’re more concerned with …

OWD Roadshow: The City by R1200GS
Friday, 16 Apr, 2004 – 0:00 | Comment
OWD Roadshow: The City by R1200GS

Life moves pretty fast in “the City”, or so I’ve concluded.  Charlie Rauseo is on the phone, aside from that little Paris-Dakar thing he attempted recently he’s been a contributor to OneWheelDrive.Net on a few …

OWD Roadshow: Streets of San Francisco
Thursday, 15 Apr, 2004 – 0:00 | Comment
OWD Roadshow: Streets of San Francisco

It’s an all-out sprint… actually it’s more than that.  It’s an all-out chase, through traffic with lane splitting, in the dark, on fresh tires, at periodically baffling speeds, and the only thing it needs to …

OWD Roadshow: Vancouver to Ukiah and then Some
Wednesday, 14 Apr, 2004 – 0:00 | Comment
OWD Roadshow: Vancouver to Ukiah and then Some

 
It’s dark out on the fourth day of the trip and we’re still riding.  It’s all part of a hastened “push” to reach Ukiah, California, but still night riding has its own charms.
Everything changes at …