And how many unpaved tracks do you take your car down?
Do you lift it over rocks and past wash-outs?
Do you wheel it into hotel rooms for the night when you’re in a remote Peruvian village?
Do you drive it down back alleys that are a meter wide?
Do local kids smile and wave when they see your car?
I keep bouncing back to Chinatown by Thin Lizzy at the moment, dunno why
If you’re willing to learn, you can craft yourself an amazing adventure that you’ll remember for the rest of your life … I try and give good advice, because that sort of motorbike touring is something I love and I wish I could share it with more people :-)
Amazing, everything you just said was wrong.
I’m sorry to say it again, but GET LESSONS. More than the minimum.
In South America you’re not going to want to do those speeds unless you just want to go on a main paved highway, blast from one side to the other without seeing anything, and then call it a day.
A 150 is plenty, and used by locals.
Seriously, go watch those channels I mentioned. If you prefer to read, then try “Lois on the Loose”, she did the tip of Alaska to the bottom of South America on a 225cc trail bike.
Having a big fast bike does nothing to help safety. I’ve had bikes from a 70cc step-through up to a 175hp liter bike. Right now the bike I use most for touring in Spain and Morocco is a 125cc trail bike with 10hp (though I have a 400cc bike for commuting / motorway / pillion use).
Look at those two channels I mentioned in my comment above. They both went to South America.
If you know nothing about bikes, learn how to ride properly before you go (and if you’re in the US, get more lessons than the minimum needed for your license). For South America you only need a small bike, like a 150cc. They’re easier to handle, cheaper to buy and run, and a good second hand one will attract less attention.
How’s your Spanish?
Are there any local financial cooperatives?
At home there’s a cooperative that’s for small scale local farmers and small businesses to be able to get loans. Money invested only makes itself back at the rate of inflation plus a tiny amount.
It helps local small businesses, and is better than having it in a bank :-)
Yes, and Harleys are big and heavy which severely limits their freedom to paved roads and only maybe the most gentle of unpaved tracks.
So, freedom was available all along, but not from those trying to market it as a capitalist lifestyle
The thing is, motorbikes do give the ultimate in freedom … check out C90Adventures or Itchyboots on youtube, they’ve travelled the world in a free manner that wouldn’t be possible by other means.
I have several motorbikes, the ones I use outside of competition are very quiet. They give me freedom.
It wasn’t sarcasm, I was thinking of the trade they’ll do with nations that aren’t the US in the future.
Kinda like the end of that film where everything freezes.
I don’t think he knows about second orgasm, Pippin
For me, typically 4 to 6 over about a 3 hour session (break for a quick drink and to use the loo included, I’m not 20 any more)
And the same for my wife, of course.
Just for the record, post-op trans women can manage multiples very nicely too ;-)
(Sample size off two in my research)
While I agree with you in principle, I was thinking of their current standard of living in Mexico vs. (historically) the US, and trade deals with Canada and the rest of the world.
Yeah, it’s been my anecdotal experience, too :-)
Wow, their real achieved productivity is gonna go up nicely (if the studies are right about this sort of thing …)
* Women reached the first orgasm in 14 mins.
Yeah, that was great, but we’ve got a few hours ahead of us here …
Sounds about right. Like confidently claiming that women getting wet isn’t a real thing …
Long and thin is better for anal
That’s proper evil planning in action, 10/10 will evil again.
That tank can’t make it to any remote places, you can’t even lift it in your own if you’re a woman.
My trailie weighs 105kg, and I can lift one end at a time - essential for putting it in the back of a pickup truck when it breaks down