Here is an interesting video for the end of the week, brought to us from Off The Map Tours. They also do motorcycle, train, horseriding, camel and walking tours, together with many cultural tours. The soundtrack is hypnotic.
An American legend is to get its own museum. Just in time for the 105th anniversary of the famous motorcycle's birth, the Harley-Davidson Museum is set to open on July 12, 2008, with tickets going on sale May 20, 2008.
Located in Milwaukee, USA, exhibits include a bike from each of Harley's 105 years of production, together with Harley bicycles, snowmobiles and even golf carts. Raiding the company's vast archives, the museum has been able to fashion exhibits featuring customised motorcycles, clothing, photos, posters, promotional materials and magazines. Read a full review from Rick Barrett.
Ride! on BlogTalkRadio.com is a new online radio talk show, offering lively half-hour interviews every two weeks from Toronto, Canada. The realtime talks, hosted by freelance motojournalist Adrian Blake, cover all aspects of motorcycling, including international industry movers and shakers, professional racers, adventurers, custom builders, and a host of other passionate advocates for two-wheel motorised transport.
Adrian will even be conducting an interview for Ride! from the 2007 Milan International Motorcycle Show (EICMA) in Italy, which runs November 6 through 11. The fair is the largest bike show in the world.
And on November 21 at 3 p.m. EST, his guest will be Austin Vince. Austin was one of six British adventurers called Mondo Enduro, who completed a 400,000 miles around the world ride, in 400 days on 350-cc Suzuki dual sport bikes.
Their adventures were documented on video in the popular series, Mondo Enduro, shown on the Discovery adventure travel channel and the companion book to the series has just been published.
A video from Charliechicpea (part 3 in a series) of this summer's Velocette Motorcycle Owners Club Rally at Stanford Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England. Velocette has been described as one of the most beautiful hand built motorcycles ever made and a 350cc MkVIII Velocette was the machine rode by Bob Foster in 1950, when he was crowned world champion.
The Dorset branch of the UK Velocette Owners Club, will be holding its annual charity bike run, the Bob Foster Run on 7 October, 2007.
50 years ago, a young man and his friend took a legendary motorcycle trek across the back-roads of Latin America. The man was Che Guevara and in a new National Geographic Adventure and Geographic television series making its US premiere on V-me Tuesday, September 4, 2007, two, similarly young, Latin Americans retrace their path. They cover more than 13,000 kilometers through the same pampas, rivers and mountains, of Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela, contrasting their observations with those of Che and his friend, Alberto Granados. Exhilarating stories and stunning imagery combine to provide a fresh and entertaining perspective on Latin American travel and history.
I thought that you might like this video clip provided by jdkarmch of Harley Davidson motorcycles touring Melbourne. Like the man says, when visiting Melbourne, you can take a Harley Ride as a pillion passenger, with your own personal guide, and see as much in 1 hour as you would in 3 days on foot.
Harleys and Melbourne seem to go together well. Set up a hair drier to blow warm air in your face and enjoy the dream.
If you want more, take a look at this longer video from Phoenix Rising, of a large corporate group on an outing through Melbourne on Harley Davidsons, 10 solos, 4 with sidecars and a Heritage Trike, seeing a lot of Melbourne Landmarks.
Exhilarating stories and stunning imagery combine to provide a fresh and entertaining perspective on Latin American travel and history.
