When we create a new motorcycle tour we cannot use as much time as we will during the tour with our customers. This is normal as, for an 8 day tour, we spend only two to three days to check the planned roads and the selected hotels. This implies that, even though, we ride the same roads as the tour will take and even check various options, we have to be fast (but at the authorized speed limits) and efficient in our riding. The tours being of course tested and validated on a motorcycle the focus on the road and rhythm is paramount.

What is nice is then to ride the same tour with the customers who want to see everything and enjoy a good time, thus riding at a slower pace and stopping often for sight seeing and photos.

For us this gives a great perspective on the tour as we can then enjoy the scenery too! And even discover each time some new things, as we ride the tour with different groups at different periods of the year!

Suggestion: take the rhythm down, have a look around you, even on your favorite race track, sorry, road section! You will be surprised by the beauty of the scenery and the variety of places and people around you.

Ron Ayres who is pretty well known in the US extreme rally riders world, but not that much in the rest of the world unfortunately, wrote some books about his experience and a couple on this delicious extreme ride call the Iron Butt Rally (see their web site: 11.000 miles in 11 days).

His book is a precise report about his and some other riders, 1995 Iron Butt Rally. It is interesting to see how far a biker can go, how far you can stretch your limits in endurance, loneliness and focus. The read goes like the ride: non stop, you can’t get the book to rest until you have finished reading it.

Even though Ron is a competitor of our business I hope I will have one day the luck to have a chat with him over a good beer!

By the way stay focused, Unicorn Adventures Ltd may have a surprise for you in 2008….

But shhhhhtttt it is a secret!