Motorcycle adventure travel is a broad church. Some people need to ride around the globe before they call themselves motorcycle travelers, other just need to make it across that gnarly trail that separates their comfortable home loop of sealed road from the next valley’s. All are entitled to call themselves anything they like, really.

As travelers they are also perfectly entitled to set their own goals. Where do you want to ride, both “to” and “in”? Once again, it’s a personal matter. Is your goal to knock over the run from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, or would you consider yourself a success if you manage to ride across Australia, down the length of Britain or all of Route 66?

There are endless goals you might set yourself. What about riding the allegedly highest ‘motorcyclable’ road in the world? It’s not the one you think it is, by the way. It’s not even in the same continent. I’ve written a whole post on this subject, and while researching it found that Kardung Lal in not even in the top 10. So you might want to do a little research before you set out.

Is it the TAT that sets your mark for desirable motorcycling achievement, or would you like to traverse the Khyber Pass? Both are entirely possible, but they do require different kinds of preparation, funding… and courage. Or possibly stupidity. Who am I to judge?

Motorcycle travel is an intensely personal kind of endeavor. The same level of courage or simple sang froid might take you out into the Nevada desert, down to the coast of Croatia or up the valleys of the Hindu Kush. There is no absolute scale of bravery or achievement for human beings. I know a bloke who builds his own motorcycles from scratch (although eh cheats every now and then and uses a bought-in carburetor). The bikes run. They are works of art, but perfectly rideable ones. Yet he never rides them anywhere except in an annual parade through his little country town.

他是一个性格内向的慢性;甚至只是滚下主要街道对他来说是一个重大的挑战。对我来说，他是勇敢的人谁在澳大利亚中部需要跨越Gunbarrel公路一辆Vespa摩托车。是的，我知道谁做了，只是它粘起来谁看你需要的各种各样的探险装备（和冒险自行车），以支付深沙和没有燃料的千元左右公里的人。新利18苹果

To go back to my starting point, adventure motorcycle travel – like all of motorcycling, really – is a broad church. Or it ought to be. There should be room for the young couple I met in Hanmer Springs in New Zealand who had just ridden the somewhat notorious Molesworth Track on a couple of Groms, and had enjoyed it hugely. Just as there should be space for my friend David McGonigal who not only rode a two-stroke across most of Asia without a clutch cable, but managed to persuade the captain of a Russian icebreaker to give him and his BMW tourer a lift to Antarctica so he could justifiable claim to have ridden on every continent of the planet.

Any other claimants for that title out there? I’d be delighted to hear from you.

当这一切需要我们呢？好吧，我很想听到你有关，你要访问的地方。这是很难或不可能在这一次的冠状病毒，但什么是地狱。你想在哪里去，如果你能，你会去哪里时，你可以再次？哪些准备将它拿;将你需要购买一辆新的自行车做，或者你会高高兴兴地做它在你的车库无论是还是锁定到您的车库的权利吗？你将跨越全国化险为夷，如果你是美国人参观羚羊峡谷;在冰原公路，如果你是加拿大人;约克角，如果你是澳大利亚人;或北角如果你住的地方在欧洲吗？

Or are you perhaps seriously hardcore with a plan to cross the Darien Gap?

我不要求这对引导你在任何特定方向。我只是想知道，当你在这个恼人的限制是什么响您的钟声。有你永远不会知道你想骑，直到你解决这些问题的道路。我知道我想骑在开伯尔山口之前，我管理，但我永远也不会知道，查谟和克什米尔之间的Jawarhal隧道是遥遥领先更可怕，虽然比较短。

I would never even have suspected that Swartberg Pass into the Karoo in South Africa gave access to some of the most exquisite dirt riding in the world over alternately packed and loose sand between vertical cliff faces.

The world is a wondrous place. Which slice of it do you long to explore?