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ADVrider was launched in 2001 to provide adventure motorcycle riders their own dedicated online community. The site was debuted as an adventure riding forum and has grown to become the most visited website in the world for motorcycle enthusiasts. ADVrider currently has over 350,000 registered members who have submitted 33 million original posts. Read more about the story of how ADVrider came to be from our fearless leader, Baldy.

We have now expanded beyond ADV’s roots to become an industry leading media network for the moto community. In addition to the forum, this new ADVrider site will act as an editorial voice for the community and provide users free information on ride reports, bike & gear reviews, first-person rider stories and a variety of other content. We have some big plans and hope you will join us on this ride.

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Arai XD-5 Now In-Stock In The US

If you’re looking for a new touring helmet, you’ve got lots to choose from. With the US-market release of the Shoei Neotec 3 earlier in April, we also see the Arai XD-5 hitting the market. Like the new Neotec, we knew the XD-5 was coming soon, because we first saw it revealed in overseas markets last year. Arai introduced it to the US market in 2024 with an AIMExpo reveal, and now it’s in stores and at online retailers. Previous versions of the XD-5 quickly converted from a dirt-ready adventur

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Is the Grind Hard Monster Chopper the Ultimate ADV Bike?

Spinal Tap famously had an amplifier where the volume went to 11 instead of the standard 10. If custom choppers were amplifiers, the Grind Hard Monster Chopper would go to at least eleventy-seven. It all began when Grind Hard Plumbing Co, whose previous builds include a snowmobile-powered mountain scooter, a Suzuki Hayabusa snow bike, and a Mazda RX7-powered drift trike, partnered with an unnamed celebrity for yet another wacky build. This celebrity backed out partway through the project, leavi

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The GNAR Is Back For 2024

If you’re in the northeast of North America and you’re looking for one last ADV event to close out the rally season in September, then there’s good news—the GNAR is back! GNAR stands for Great New Brunswick Adventure Rally, and no, that’s not New Brunswick, New Jersey. This event runs in New Brunswick, Canada, in the Fundy coast region. The 2024 event runs September 5-8. The GNAR is the renamed Fundy Adventure Rally Reunion, which sprung up in 2022 when the original Fundy Adventure Rally didn’

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New Gear From Gryphon

Up-and-coming moto gear brand Gryphon has announced an update to its gear lineup for 2024, including new adventure riding jackets and mesh jackets for men and women. Gryphon Ozark Adventure-Touring Jacket An ADV jacket made of 600D anti-abrasion fabric, with the shoulders beefed up to 1680D material. There’s a mesh inner liner for comfort, and a removable full-sleeve thermal liner that also sheds rain. For comfort, there are adjusters on wrist, bicep, hip and waist sections of the jacket. The

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Can Yoga Help You Ride?

Here’s a suggestion from FortNine that is sure to spark some back-and-forth: Along with the strength workouts for your shoulders and lower body that the YouTube channel previously recommended, we now see them with a personal trainer suggesting… yoga poses for life on the road. Now, it might not sound super-macho to be yoga-stretching your way through a dual sport camping trip. But I will say that one of the most experienced riders I ever met was a firm believer in doing just this. We had a yoga

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Gloves, Or Deglove Yourself

This guest post was written by our long time inmate @Wes Mantooth. Read his previous article Death or Coffee?. Mood: “Living On a Thin Line” by The Kinks Fellow Inmates, “Wes Mantooth” joined the Asylum on May 24, 2005. Then a rising senior at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, my aspirations contrasted with my classmates’ quite professional intentions. I devoured Proficient Motorcycling, pondered the gyroscopic effect, and aced my Basic Riders Course (s/o Motorcycle Safety

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KOVE Dakar Rider Mason Klein Hops To Honda?

Rising Dakar racing star Mason Klein may be leaving China-based KOVE racing team for Honda, according a post on his Facebook page. The post, seen below, states “I’m so excited to start my first race with @hondaracingbr let’s do this. Prologue starts today.” No other details were posted by Klein and so far, there’s been no comment publicly from Honda via their various news channels. Facebook/Meta The @hondaracingbr directs to the Instagram page for Honda Racing Brazil where Klein is listed as

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News From Ural: Demo Days, Deals … And Engine Updates?

Ural Motorcycles has been making basically the same machine for a long, long time, but in the past decade, the Russian-moved-to-Kazakhstan company (with its headquarters in the US PNW) has been modernizing its lineup with updates like EFI. Now, according to some cryptic lines in their latest PR email, it seems they’re working on upgrading their flat twin engine. The note is prefaced by an explanation that the company has been tied up with overhauling its business for the past couple of years; m

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Kawasaki Recalls Certain 2023-2024 ZX-4 Sportbikes For Damaged Spark Plugs

In its report, Kawasaki says: Describing the safety risk, Kawasaki says: The motorcycles affected by this recall are as follows: 2023 Kawasaki Ninja® ZX-4RR KRT Edition 2024 Kawasaki Ninja® ZX™-4R ABS/140 2024 Kawasaki Ninja® ZX™-4RR 40th Anniversary Edition ABS 2024 Kawasaki Ninja® ZX™-4RR ABS 2024 Kawasaki Ninja® ZX™-4RR KRT Edition ABS The affected motorcycles were produced between October 4, 2023, and November 14, 2023. The affected machines fall within the following VIN ranges:

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Monimoto 9 Anti-Theft GPS Launches This Month

Back in 2020, Egle reviewed a Monimoto anti-theft tracker which consisted of a wireless tracking node and a fob the rider keeps in their pocket. If the bike moves when the fob isn’t nearby, an alarm rings on your phone and real-time GPS tracking begins via a proprietary app on your phone. Egle found it was very effective, even when traveling in South America: More recently, when the Monimoto 7 came out, the tracking capability got even better, with LTE Cat-M1 wireless connectivity—and battery

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Get On! ADV Fest Returns To Sturgis, With Lower Pricing

It looks like the crew at Revzilla is going to stick with the Buffalo Chip as home base for the Get On! ADV Fest, as the rally is headed back there for 2024. The Sturgis campground has the adventure bike rally listed on the schedule for July this year, and it looks like the schedule is going to be similar to previous years. Here’s what the Buffalo Chip’s website says: Tickets are available here; pricing starts at $99 for access to the festival over the four days of the event. A camping pass o

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SW-Motech Kits Out The BMW R1300 GS

As soon as you see a new adventure bike hit the market, it’s only a matter of time until the Euro aftermarket starts releasing parts for it—and that should be no surprise, since they’re often the companies who made the factory-available farkles as well. In this case, we see SW-Motech launching its lineup of crash bars, skid plate, etc., for the BMW R1300 GS. BMW didn’t even exhibit its latest flagship GS at EICMA, so lots of people stopped by SW-Motech’s booth instead, to see the kitted-out mac

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Build Your Own Multi-Tool: Roxon Flex

3If you’re always on the lookout for The Next Great Tool, perhaps you should check out the Roxon Flex. It has a roll-your-own design, allowing the buyer to customize what functions they include on the tool, and that means two big advantages. The first advantage is the most obvious—this arrangement allows the user to configure their multitool with gadgets that are beneficial to motorcyclists. Most of us have had a multitool or two over the years, and often, they come with tools that are not usef

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Can You Take a Honda Goldwing Ice Fishing?

We love Matt Spears‘ motorcycle shenanigans, such as turning a Hayabusa into an ADV bike or taking a Goldwing on the Montana BDR. The Goldwing is back but in a slightly different configuration than before. This time, Matt has studded the tires with the intention of taking his Honda Goldwing ice fishing. [embedded content] After driving for hours to a frozen lake in a truck with a dead battery, it turned out the Goldwing had a flat tire. Fortunately, Matt remembered his tire pump and used that

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Kids Aren’t Buying Bikes; Does It Matter?

The Lowdown Show returns, with its second episode. Industry insider Neil Graham, a regular ADVrider opinion column contributor, is here to share conversations with other gearheads. This week, Neil is talking to Zac Kurylyk, aka Kawazacky, the managing editor here at ADVrider. Kawazacky has a long history here at ADVrider, joining as an inmate more than 15 years back, using the Ride Reports as inspiration to move beyond the world of commuting. He’s been running around the halls of motojournalism

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PR: BMW Motorrad Days Americas Runs At Barber In 2024

ADVrider has a lot of Beemerphiles in our lovely little asylum. If you think that term describes you, then check out the press release below. The Barber Vintage Festival is always a good time no matter what brand you’re riding, but with BMW Motorrad Days there, it’s even more attractive to GS riders and all the other BMW fans on this site. The festival does’t run ’til October, so you’ve got lots of time to plan!—Ed. Vezi sursa

12 Aprilie

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Shoei Neotec 3 Now Available To US Customers

Last year, we told you that overseas markets were getting the Shoei Neotec 3 helmet rolled out; in the past few weeks, we told you that Neotec 2 helmets were marked-down, so the next-generati0n launch for US customers was surely just around the corner. And now, here it is, finally available in the States. The Neotec 2 had been in Shoei’s lineup for a few years now; it was considered one of the top motorcycle helmets available. You might wonder how much a touring helmet can change between genera

11 Aprilie

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Giveaway: Michelin Power 6 Tires

Yes, we know these are *not* adventure bike tires. However, we also know that a lot of you own motorcycles with 17-inch wheels front and rear, and you can always use a new set of rubber! The Power 6 tires are Michelin’s top-tier sportbike rubber, although we presume you could also put them on something like a Kawasaki Versys or a BMW S1000XR. Motorcycle.com is giving these tires away, and we regret to inform Australians, Euros and Canadians that they aren’t eligible for this contest—it’s for Am

11 Aprilie

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Exit Tours: San Andreas 300 Scheduled For May 3-6

Sounds like a good opportunity for riders of all kinds, whether you want hard dirt bike trails, or easy or difficult adventure bike roads. To take part, you’ve got to join the Exit Tours Motorcycle Club, which includes your Ride with GPS subscription, with offline maps for your Android or iPhone, including turn-by-turn nav. This is the app that Exit uses for this event, and it is compatible with most GPS units. The tracks are set up as dual sport, singletrack and ADV loops; the tracks, maps and

11 Aprilie

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KTM Brings Back The SX 150 And Updates Its Other Motocrossers

Two strokes aren’t dead yet—they’re not even pining for the fjords of Norway. KTM has brought back its SX 150 2T motocrosser, which is basically a muscled-up version of the SX 125. The marketeers are keen to tell us that this means more power across the rev range: [embedded content] Leaving the enthusiastic hyperbole behind, it is good to see that two-stroke fans still have new choices. The new 150 comes with EFI and a power valve to ensure all that torque is delivered in a smooth fashion. I

10 Aprilie

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The Brixton Storr 500 Is Real, and Coming Here, Maybe

A while back, we discussed the Brixton Storr 500 concept shown at EICMA 2022 and asked whether you’d buy it if it were available in North America. If Brixton has its way, you might just get that opportunity with a bike virtually unchanged from the original concept. Brixton’s website provides no solid details about the Storr. Instead, it leans hard into the British heritage it very much does not have. Brixton is based in Austria, while the motorcycles are made in China by Gaokin. However, accord

10 Aprilie

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As The Magpie Cooks: Amanda Zito’s Camping Cookbook Launches Today

Amanda Zito is a motorcycle artist extraordinaire, but you are more likely to know her from her YouTube channel, As The Magpie Flies. And soon, you might know her from her new book—a new cookbook, to be precise. Today, Zito’s new camping cookbook launches via Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. This isn’t some jaded money grab with recipes ripped off the Internet, or pie-in-the-sky concoctions that use ingredients you’ll never find in a store in the rear end of Idaho. These are 60-plus recipes tha

9 Aprilie

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Dakar Rally Racer Joaquim Rodrigues Is Retiring

One of the world’s most talented off-road racers is calling it quits After 35 years of high speed on two wheels, Joaquim Rodrigues is retiring. Rodrigues has been a fixture at the Dakar Rally for some time; most recently, he worked with the Hero Motorsports rally raid team, and was a big part of their road to top-20 results. This year, he had a DNF early-on (Stage 1), and in 2023, he was knocked out in Stage 4. But in 2022, he earned 14th overall, winning Stage 3; in 2021, he finished 11th over

9 Aprilie

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Report: CFMOTO Is Developing A 1250 ADV

We’ve just run a quick summary of Ryan Adams’ review of the CFMOTO Ibex 450 adventure bike, and now we see photos coming out of Europe that show even bigger plans for the company. According to journos and brand fans in Europe, the Chinese manufacturer is working on a new 1250 adventure bike. Although the interested parties seem to be calling this bike the 1250MT, we’d guess that it will in reality be called the 1250 Ibex, seeing as that was the name thrown on the 450 and 800 adventure bikes alr

9 Aprilie

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Colorado Lane Filtering Legalized, For Now

One more state has joined growing ranks of civilized places in North America to ride a motorcycle. In Colorado, lane filtering is now legal—for a little while, at least. Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 24-079 into law on April 4, making it legal for motorcycles to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions. This is not the free-for-all of California lane splitting. Most importantly, surrounding traffic must be at a complete stop before bikes can move between them, commonl

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