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Shannon Nicholson & Dan Peschio Ride through Central America!

3/9/2008

My wife, Michelle, just set me up with this new site to play on.  I'm a little late in getting this going, so I'm gonna have to bring everyone up to speed.

My good friend Dan called me in December. He was kicking around the idea to ride a dual sport motorcycle from Asheville, North Carolina to Buenas Aires, Argentina to teach English as a second language.  He asked me what kind of bike he should be looking at for such a journey.  I gave him a list of about 5 bikes.  The next day, he called me to go look at this:

The day after that, Dan bought it.  Enrolled in Dan's adventure and wanting to join him for at least part of the ride, I counterattacked with this:

A little more exotic than the tried and true KLR ~ but what can I say? ~ I had an itch that needed to be scratched.  Already fitted with a fair amount of farkles:

• Hepco & Becker crash bars
• Hepco & Becker Gobi side cases
• Leo Vince performance exhaust
• Renazco Racing custom seat & OEM gel seat
• KTM touring windscreen & OEM windscreen
• Custom bar risers

These are the bikes we've chosen for the adventure.  Dan and I are both new to adventure riding, so we're planning on taking a lot of "mini trips" this spring/summer to work out the details.  This site will chronicle my trials and tribulations, as well as the progress on setting up my KTM for the big adventure.  Dan maintains his own site, and his progress can be checked here:  Dan's Asheville to Argentina Blog

 

 

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