Holy cow, gang. The last couple weeks have raced by with projects and camp coordinating. And here it is, I'm two days out from hitting the road on the bike and heading out west to meet y'all. Cannot wait! We'll have to sit down for a cold one since there's been so many twists and turns to getting re...

Okay, so things just took a strange turn. In the course of the last 48 hours, I placed a couple calls, talked to some trusted friends, and a big change has come to my journey. My 2013 Guzzi has suddenly morphed into a 2016 Triumph Bonneville T120. :D The beloved Guzzi decided she needed to find a ne...

@FlyingMonkey - Sharknados? I think I'll need a bigger bike. :D I've gotten mixed messages on the line situation coming into the playa. I'll probably be arriving late Tuesday or early Wednesday. I'm hoping lines will have died down some, but a few campmates have said that talking to BM staff and ask...

Elliot, I like the way you wrench. *tips hat*

@Captain Goddammit - I hear you. I like the idea of hitting the bike with some Simple Green as soon as I can. I've been talking to a lot of guys over on ADVRider (an adventure motorcycle site) about the desert. I've gotten some tips on helping the bike survive the playa. It was good to find people w...

I wish, Elliot. That's amazing! lol

Hey, all. Yeah...arrival date was a typo. Not sure where that came from. Hehe. Estimated arrival is actually late the 30th or early the 31st. As bluemiragemi said, I'm staying with a theme camp and have been doing a lot of logistics work to ensure that while my trip out and back are pretty self-supp...

@zigzag - As a bike mechanic my best advice is take the bike to your local bike shop. If you're unfamiliar with all the plentiful variations in bicycle shifting/drivetrains you can quickly go down a rabbit hole of parts/labor that will end up being expensive and you might not be any better off than ...

56 days until I leave for the playa! ...my brain is *so* ready to go. I'm riding my motorcycle from Michigan out to the playa, leaving August 21st and arrving on playa on the 26th. I'll be running I-80 pretty much the whole way out. I figured I'd reach out to the community and see who is along the w...

Greetings from another 2016 newbie...also from MI...also riding my motorcycle out to the playa. We apparently *need* to run into each other at some point. :D I'm excited for the cross-country trip, almost as much as I am actually getting out into the dust. It's been a crazy adventure so far, getting...