Hi everybody!<\/p>\n
I’m not really into talking about myself so I shall just give you a a few basics.<\/p>\n
Just turned 70. Just got my pension card. Got a bike. Got a dream. So I’m off.<\/p>\n
For years I have though about flying to Germany, buying a BMW bike and riding it home. I never got to do that. Women, kids, work, bills all the usual things that keep us bashing away living everyone else’s life except our own.<\/p>\n
So a couple of years ago when I finally found myself with no wife, grown up kids, and some money I also found an immaculate 2009 BMW F650GS twin with all of 3000km on the clock. Just love it.<\/p>\n
It was therefore necessary to rejig the dream, so I reversed the idea and am going to try riding from Australia to Europe. I emphasise try cause I had the original dream before I was 25 and was of course indestructible.<\/p>\n
For some reason at 70, I don’t possess that same concept.<\/p>\n
I will get as far as I get and probably a lot slower than most. I tell you, some days…<\/p>\n
The bike has had about 50kg of protection added to the original mostly from Tourtech. Panniers from MTD. Garmin. Sena. All the normal expensive stuff.<\/p>\n
The first blog I read about this route to Europe was Nathan the Postman<\/a>, so I feel like a bit of a fraud, but I’m old I’ll handle it. I have since read many more blogs, manly thanks to links on Horizons Unlimited<\/a>.<\/p>\n The more I read the more I wanted to do it and the more apprehensive I have became, but I just have to go for a ride and some of the fear fades. If it doesn’t kill you it doesn’t matter… right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everybody! I’m not really into talking about myself so I shall just give you a a few basics. Just turned 70. Just got my pension card. Got a bike. Got a dream. So I’m off. For years I have… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}