Tropic of Cancer: Paleolithic Repair
Mon, 8/03/10 – 9:42 | 2 Comments

As Kevin picks up the rock and I secure the rim for another round of hammering, neither of us want to admit it outright, but we’re in deep trouble. The video will show a certain amount of Survivor Man bravado, but off camera things are more worrying. This morning we confirmed a suspicion with our host David, we’ve the only two Honda Varadero’s to reach Mike’s Sky Ranch, a Baja adventure and dirt rider Mecca. Today we’ll be lucky to get both bikes out again.

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Tropic of Cancer: Paleolithic Repair
Monday, 8 Mar, 2010 – 9:42 | 2 Comments
Tropic of Cancer: Paleolithic Repair

As Kevin picks up the rock and I secure the rim for another round of hammering, neither of us want to admit it outright, but we’re in deep trouble. The video will show a certain amount of Survivor Man bravado, but off camera things are more worrying. This morning we confirmed a suspicion with our host David, we’ve the only two Honda Varadero’s to reach Mike’s Sky Ranch, a Baja adventure and dirt rider Mecca. Today we’ll be lucky to get both bikes out again.

Tropic of Cancer – Mike’s Sky Ranch
Tuesday, 23 Feb, 2010 – 7:57 | One Comment
Tropic of Cancer – Mike’s Sky Ranch

The battle to get the Varaderos into Mike’s Sky Ranch begins, before the bikes are even fired up. That late start makes for a late arrival and the breaking of one of the Baja’s cardinal rules; don’t ride at night, off road, through territory you’re not familiar with.

Tropic of Cancer – Finally, a Start
Saturday, 20 Feb, 2010 – 9:36 | Comment
Tropic of Cancer – Finally, a Start

Diving the Honda Varadero into the melee of a Tijauna traffic circle makes this tour’s stutter start preparation worth it. The act is a stinging belly-flop plunge into a different culture. It’s an act of faith that inserting the big adventure bike into the swirling vortex of squealing family sedans, rattle trap busses and braying taxis will work out. Miraculously, it does.

Arctic Adventure Video: The Dempster Part 2
Friday, 12 Feb, 2010 – 10:28 | Comment
Arctic Adventure Video: The Dempster Part 2

In the final video of the Arctic Adventure online video series, the OneWheelDrive.Net team reaches Inuvik, NWT. A ride that has carried us from Vancouver, BC to our destination 200km north of the Arctic Circle. Watch for our upcoming feature download and DVD exploring the Dempster Highway in detail.

Arctic Adventure Video: The Dempster Part 1
Friday, 5 Feb, 2010 – 11:13 | Comment
Arctic Adventure Video: The Dempster Part 1

The OneWheelDrive.Net team has made it to the Dempster, Canada only all season highway to cross the Arctic Circle, on the second to last leg of the Arctic Adventure video series.

Arctic Adventure Video: Telegraph Creek
Monday, 25 Jan, 2010 – 9:42 | Comment
Arctic Adventure Video: Telegraph Creek

The road to Telegraph Creek is one of British Columbia’s greatest roads, jaw dropping scenery, a hint of danger and a uncertain future. To steal a phrase every visit is potentially a last chance to see this great destination. So the http://OneWheelDrive.Net team takes a two day detour on our way to the Western Canadian Arctic.

NZ: South Island Series – Bluff
Monday, 11 Jan, 2010 – 10:36 | 2 Comments
NZ: South Island Series – Bluff

Follow Joe & Flora Lloyd in the third episode of NZ: South Island Series from Scottish inspired Dunedin to the south-most accessible tip of New Zealand. New Zealand’s southland boasts amazing scenery and ample quiet roads to explore.

Arctic Adventure Video: How Far North?
Saturday, 2 Jan, 2010 – 13:44 | Comment
Arctic Adventure Video: How Far North?

This episode the http://OneWheelDrive.net team encounters a bear, cow floating rain and oatmeal in their ride to Inuvik, NWT 200km north of the Arctic Circle.

Arctic Adventure Video: Something Fishy (Warning some Sushi Violence)
Monday, 14 Dec, 2009 – 12:05 | 2 Comments
Arctic Adventure Video: Something Fishy (Warning some Sushi Violence)

Fish beatings, idilic mornings, and dust? The OneWheelDrive.Net team’s Arctic Adventure continues as they ride 12,000kms north to Inuvik, NWT.

Arctic Adventure Video: Smoke in the Air
Thursday, 3 Dec, 2009 – 15:48 | Comment
Arctic Adventure Video: Smoke in the Air

Riding to the Inuvik, NWT (200kms north of the Arctic Circle), the OneWheelDrive.Net team gets their first taste of dirt traveling from Soda Creek to Bob Tail Lake (just outside of Vanderhoof, BC). A route that requires a minor detour to avoid a forest fire

Arctic Adventure Video: Bugs in the System
Friday, 27 Nov, 2009 – 17:32 | Comment
Arctic Adventure Video: Bugs in the System

This episode we’re dealing with some bugs as http://OneWheelDrive.Net hit the road, riding from Vancouver, BC to Inuvik, NWT some 200kms North of the Arctic Circle.

Epilogue – Rush Hour
Thursday, 5 Nov, 2009 – 12:23 | 12 Comments
Epilogue – Rush Hour

Crawling under the towering cables of Lion’s Gate Bridge, we’re rolling into Vancouver on the final leg of our return from the Arctic and our welcome is an automotive slap in the face. Traffic is ornery, pushy, and demonstrating the road selfishness we’ve not had to deal with for 10,000 kilometers. Mainly because for a major portion of that distance there was no traffic…

The Salmon Glacier
Sunday, 18 Oct, 2009 – 13:25 | Comment
The Salmon Glacier

Stewart, B.C. – We are overlooking the Salmon Glacier, on a road that curls up the ridges overtop of the great flowing track of ice driven forward by its own weight. In the sun it dazzles the eye, gliding imperceptibly around a corner, with race stripes of medial moraine rock debris giving it black curves like a remnant alien roadway from the last ice age.

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…

Top of the World
Thursday, 10 Sep, 2009 – 11:18 | Comment
Top of the World

Awestruck by views so broad, so expansive, that the landscape and sky can barely contain them, the Top of the World out of Dawson, YT is one of the few highways we’ve encountered that truly, fully and completely lives up to its name.

Dempster Resplendent
Tuesday, 1 Sep, 2009 – 8:13 | 5 Comments
Dempster Resplendent

Is this even the same road? I know the sign fading into our rearview mirrors says “Welcome to Inuvik”, but the Dempster Highway is transformed. Four days ago the infamously challenging adventure highway tossed us around like Cerberus using three souls as chew toys, today what was once the Mud-Beast is now asleep in the sun.

Dempster Highway – The Mud-Beast Bares its Fangs
Monday, 24 Aug, 2009 – 9:31 | Comment
Dempster Highway – The Mud-Beast Bares its Fangs

So you want to motorcycle the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, NWT? If you we’re smart you’d wait for a couple of nice dry days, but we never claimed to be smart. We head out onto the fabled road in the rain to experience its worst as we ride beyond the Arctic Circle…