Tips for packing motorbikes for air freight Here are our tips for packing Motorbikes for air freight based on our experience: Bikes need to be cleaned immaculately before shipping (especially when trying to get them into Australia. MDF or steel crates are ideal as they get around quarantine issues and the need to use certified…

After camping in Kitwanga at the southern junction of the Cassier Hwy we decided that we were going to try and make it to Jasper that day. The weather started off looking pretty good, but it soon turned to rubbish as we pushed the 850kms from Kitwanga at the bottom of the Cassier Hwy, along…

Our experience of adventure riding in the Yukon … Waking up after the D2D feeling a lot better than we thought we would, we met up with the boys and headed south from Dawson down the Klondike Hwy towards Carmacks. Paved all the way down we chewed up some kms heading south to try and…

When I was planning my Ride Right Down trip and looking to the Alaska Regional forum on ADV Rider for inspiration and advice I couldn’t help but realise there was to be a big adventure rider gathering in Dawson City, Yukon, around the time that we would be coming through the region. The ‘Dust 2…

Our experience importing motorbikes into Canada by air in 2011 … After packing the bikes and our send off we had a few days to get ourselves together before flying out for Vancouver on 26 May. Pretty uneventful flight over, partly thanks to the fact that we were on one of the new A380s which…

Our experience taking our motorcycles on the Inside Passage Ferry to Anchorage in 2011 … MV Kennicott is the pride of the Alaskan Marine Highway fleet and we joined 185 people heading up on the six day journey up the coast to Alaska from Bellingham. The car deck was packed with shipping containers on trailers,…

Here is a rundown of our ride planning for Alaska and Canada … A new year is upon us and the days are already going by too fast, so it’s time we got our act together and started to solidify our itinerary. After the usual trawling through ADVRider, Horizons Unlimited, the Mile Post, along with a few…

Most of the Pan American ride research that I have done for this trip has been through the ADVRider forum (www.advrider.com/forums) and Horizons Unlimited (www.horizonsunlimited.com). Here are some links to links to webpages, forum threads and any other resources that I have found to be helpful/inspiring. I will continue to add to this page as…