Daily Archive for January 22nd, 2007

On BMW bikes and extremes

Walking in to the Cycleworld show, I had never even considered one of those expensive, gizmo-rific, yuppie BMWs.

Walking out, I knew I had to have the F650GS. I sat on it and I was hooked, friggin Germans and their goddamn great engineering.

So today I’m doing my homework, looking at reliability, pricing ($~8000USD. yes for the whole thing!) and reading boards by riders and modders when I came across this.

Paul “IceMan” Mondor is a F650 rider from Victoria, BC (that’s Canada for us Americans… you know that place up north where they talk funny) that (at the time) was inquiring about the possibility of doing a cross Canada trip on his F650.

Sounds easy right? How about in January?

Paul Mondor Route

Well, he did it!