Tag: Holland

One of the Annual Dutch RT meetings

Yesterday was our yearly DUTCH RT Forum meeting and in spite of the bad weather along the way and at some parts of the tour, we had well over 130 bikes turn up for the get-together, subsequent tour and (inside) barbecue. Due to time constraints I only did half of the actual tour and after having a late lunch I returned to the starting point with some of the organizers. Riding back took us through one horrendous hail storm… I was afraid the stones might chip off the paint of my Schuberth !!!   We were just about to pull over…

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Next Rides and Activities

The good news: WINTER IS OVER ! You may think “well, duh!” But really, this winter has been the longest for many decades and although I have been riding our GS in France a few times along snow lined mountain roads, and the RT here in Holland in between frost periods, last week was the FIRST time THIS YEAR that Nina and I mounted up and rode along the West-Frisian country roads again! So what’s next? Ride whenever the sun is out !! AND….. …… the RT Treffen on APRIL 21st. That’s the now yearly meeting of BMW RT’s (mainly)…

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The Track Diesel Motorbike

  I keep promising these guys that I’ll come by and do a test ride.. and I will. But unfortunately I have too many other things in life that take priority currently. Nonetheless, I keep following the ‘story’ for you, and so I thought to give you a heads-up on their new website. On their blog there is also mention of going ‘abroad’ this year, so the Track will be available outside Holland soon !

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Site upgrade

You can’t really see it (yet) but the site has now been upgraded to the latest WordPress version, 2.5.1, allowing me to have more ‘tricks’ and control yet again. I am also hard at work on my Normandy Touring Guide and the new Moto Touring Newz website is starting to take shape now as well. That’s sort of a pet project of mine. Tomorrow (Saturday) we will ‘expand’ our little company with our own motortrailer, so we are more flexible in transporting our bike, and hence bring the car along too when needed! This Sunday (weather permitting) we have the…

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Dutch Guided Tour

A series of pictures taken in May 2007, when Tom and Joyce from South Carolina visited The Netherlands and had a day to spare. I arranged a rental bike for them and took them out to see some of the sights of the northern part of Holland. Of course including the inners of a windmill, our more than 600 year old towns along the old Zuiderzee, the main dikes and some good Dutch food !   First thing that needed to be done was to inspect the rental BMW for scratches and such. And note the mileage of course. We…

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A Kingdom for my castle

… some famous man must have said this at some point in history….. or so the legend goes. Here’s one of my ride tales posted on the US BMW SportTouring forums quite a few years ago. This week the weather forecasters announced us the remains of Rita and Phillipe…. and sure enough, today it is windy and raining. So I figured I’d better charge the old RT battery and get it running before it is too late. But where to go? I think I’ve shown you just about everythi9ng around here…. ah! But wait ! Did I show you ‘our…

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