Topic: The King Croesus Contempt for Death trip 2009

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Or, The Dumb Way Round

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Around The World on 70 year old motorcycles

Now more ambitious, crazy and risky than ever! We going out there again, putting McGregor and Boorman to shame, those girlie-men who did such a rough trip driving from London to New York on new BMW GS bikes and with massive support. Unlike McGregor and Boorman we ride our usual two 1937 Nimbuses with sidecars, and there’s minimal support along the way. We also ride twice their distance, don’t call it quits when reaching The Big Apple, but continue all the way around The World.

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Have you ever followed the 555 guys?

http://www.thefivefivefive.com/

Met them here in Portland a couple years ago. Really want to join them on one of their trips sometime.

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yeah i read about them in some magazine i have laying around here... somewhere.

cool story and got a kick out of their site and attitude!

best quote:

“It’s always nice to know that you are entrusting your life to a royal piece of sh!t, right? There is something that they have up here that we don’t have in TN, and that’s an annual safety inspection sticker to go along with the emissions sticker (welcome to the over-regulated, over-litigated NorthEast). The safety sticker is a way of them making sure that a bunch of idiots don’t buy a bunch of unreliable motorcycles and ride them all over the country…”



coming from MA this is particularly funny.