We are packed up and ready to travel to the starting point of the TAT in West Virginia.
Category: Trip Prep
Tools and spare parts
This video describes the tools and spare parts Scott plans to bring on the trip.
Camping and personal gear
Packing for the TAT is simple – because you cannot take much with you. Deciding exactly what to pack is NOT so simple – because you cannot take much with you. This video shows you what Scott is packing for personal and camping gear.
Pre-Trip #5 Minnesota- Part 5
We encountered a downed tree lying across the trail. I immediately starting scouting a trail around the blockage. Meanwhile Jack pulled out a saw! Excellent planning on his part. We did a fuel range test on Jack’s bike as part of this trip. We are told there are sections on the TAT where we will…
Pre-Trip #5 Minnesota – Part 4
A portion of our route included some elevation change and rocky trail. The wide angle view of action cameras makes the terrain look pretty flat so it is difficult to get a sense of the incline angle. Some of the terrain we were on was, in fact, fairly steep and this can be observed when…
Pre-Trip #5 Minnesota – Part 3
In this video we found ourselves on a particularly interesting snowmobile trail. The area where we were riding has a lot of snowmobile trails and some of these present additional hazard for motorcycles and other ‘warm weather’ vehicles because of the wet, marshy, muddy conditions. When planning your route you often do not know what…
Pre-Trip #5 Minnesota – Part 2
We experienced a lot of water crossings on the trails which were flooded by multiple days of rain. Most of the water was covering solid trail bed, however, there were some places where the water was covering heavy mud or clay which was torn up by other vehicles. This gave us the opportunity to have…
Pre-Trip #5 Minnesota – Part 1
Scott and Jack teamed up for the last pre-trip ride before they start out on the TAT in August. We purposely selected a rainy, two night, 430 mile route to test our wet gear and provide a variety of riding conditions (rock, scan, water, gravel, mud, swamp, hills, pavement). We were packed at about 75%…
Pre-Trip #4 Arizona
This is the last of three trips in the Arizona desert.
Pre-Trip #3 Arizona
On this second trip in the Arizona desert I wanted to experience roll charts in open country so I created a roll chart to take me to Secret Pass. I did not make it to the pass because I encountered trail conditions I was not comfortable attempting as a solo rider. Still, it was a…