At the end of the day, rallies are excuses to ride your motorcycle to unusual places, and Team Strange knows their “unusual”. Their Butt Lite series is pitched as a “less-filing, same great taste” version of the Iron Butt Rally, and Butt Lite X (their tenth) was to be the... [...]
So how did I do? [...]
I always seem to wake up a few minutes before my alarm.. which is often a good thing, since after a disastrous night of sleep at Liard Hot Springs on my first ride up to Alaska, I sleep with ear plugs and eye masks. Perhaps the flip side of being... [...]
I was up and on the road by 4am; Doug’s bike was still in the lot, and as I chugged hotel coffee and stowed my rain cover, I wondered if maybe he didn’t have the right idea… I toyed with doubling back and heading down through Elk Valley and Lolo... [...]
I was awake at 3:55a, so fine, whatever. Get up, take a shower, pack everything.. dang, its only 4:15a? I hear a couple bikes already moving into position, but there’s time, so I packed up the bike at a leisurely pace. It was a bit drizzly, but the smell of... [...]