Photos 📷 / Inmate Photos of the Week (26

Welcome to ADVrider’s Photos of the Week, beginning this time with a shot from an old friend, @The Bear, who reminds us that adventure sometimes does not involve getting your motorcycle dirty, finding gravel in your moustache, and mud, just mud without reason, explanation, or adverb. Sometimes, in fact, it involves art, in the form of flowing curves and pavement so smooth you might not be bound by gravity—or if you are, it’s to the firmament, not the earth. Here is The Bear’s “Borrowed Honda” on “the famous twisted bridge on the Atlantic Road in Norway.” The shot was taken a few years ago “on a trip with my nephew Joern,” and we choose this as our Featured Photo for its simplicity, grace, and, of course, beauty. Also, we’d like to borrow that Honda and ride on that bridge!

Here is the 1951 Vincent Comet that has traveled from one century to another and reaches now for new heights at the hands of @Lee, who shot this photo just a few days ago and submits it with a pertinent question. “Vincent made it to the top of the Grossglockner mountain in Austria with pillion on board. Never missed a beat, but did burn the paint off brake drums on the way down. Who needs the latest adventure bike when you can have nostalgic fun and adventure on a vintage?”

That’s not a 2016 KTM 1190R perched at the edge of Bethel Ridge on the WABDR, but a camp chair, which “is a nice place [to sit] after a long day of riding,” says @Thirsty 1. In fact, just about a week ago, he was sitting right there.

In the eight photos below, we have @C_H_R, a resident of Germany, on his first trip in the U.S.A., just a couple of weeks ago, with a 2018 Honda CRF250L Rally ABS. Shot immediately below is labeled “3 Step Hideaway.”

Some photos from my recent trip: Trans America Trail. First time in the States, bought a bike on the east coast and started riding the TAT to the west. Was a great experince with landscape and trails becoming better every day.

“After Thunderstorm in Kansas.”

“Canyonlands”

“Canyonlands 2”

Highlights are of course the high mountain passes in Colorado (even if some were still closed due to snow in july) and Canyonlands National Park. Especially the White Rim Trail is great – if you have a light motorcycle you should ride it!

“Dubinsky Well”

It’s obvious.

“Percy Kale”

Photos taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT5. Below is “White Rim Trail, Canyonlands.”

I didn’t reach the west coast as the bike developed some issues with fuel supply at high temperatures. It’s now in storage and I have a reason to come back next year to finish the trip.

Below, a shot from p_morrow72, who a few months ago was riding that 2020 Yamaha Tenere 700 through the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, which is a long way from San Francisco.

There are some incredible riding roads in Ireland, and if you get out early in the morning you can have them almost all to yourself. The Wicklow Mountains are just south of Dublin. It’s great having wide open spaces like this so close to the city.

In an unplanned convergence, we have below three shots from an Irish rider, @Pettefar, who took his 11-year-old daughter on a road trip to the Isle of Man just a couple of weeks ago, riding a BMW R nineT “Tourer Adventurer!”

We had a blast around the island, exploring the race roads and tiny lanes.

Here is Waterrock Knob on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Maggie Valley, North Carolina, just a week or so ago. And in the second photo below, the 2023 Sym Citicom S 300i ridden by @SYM_Rider.

The “Beat the Heat” scooter rally did a Sunday evening sunset ride to this location.

Here is a shot from @Tjilpi, who was “riding around the Chiang Mai area of Thailand on my newly purchased RE checking out the many Temples” a few days ago. That’s a 2023 Royal Enfield 350 Classic making that temple look good.

The 2018 Suzuki V-Strom in the pix below was ridden by @ztaj from Toronto, Ontario, to Florida not long ago, and that was only part of the trip. Below, the Manic 5 Dam in Quebec.

Pics taken on my current tour. I left Toronto late June, made my way up to Labrador, across to Newfoundland where I only did the West coast. Through Nova Scotia/New Brunswick, then down into the US. Noodled my way to Florida, now going to start the TAT, or part of it. I’ll run out of time to do it all.

“Wet day on the Trans Lab”

“Welcome to Newfoundland.”

“Camping at Jordan Lake, North Carolina”

“Heading for Okefenokee Swamp”

Below, a 1972 Moto Guzzi Eldorado throws its shadow onto the Sultan Industrial Road “after heading into Biscotasing [north of Lake Huron] in about 2013,” according to @nick949eldo, who submitted the three photos below and says he likes the sense of adventure this picture suggests.” We agree. This pic and the third one are “from historical rides in northern Ontario and, for me, capture something of the essence of riding in the northern (and most attractive) 3/4 of the province.”

“The storm was heading my way as I was riding to a coffee shop in Tamworth – the first ride after installing a new universal joint (I think). I just love the sky.” Tamworth is a town north of the eastern end of Lake Ontario.

Shortly after taking the picture near the Wanapitei River (2018, part of the TCAT), I encountered an area where the road had been completely washed out around a culvert. Fortunately I was able to follow a four-wheeler track around the base of the culvert to get back in the road.

The Wanapitei River is north of Sudbury, Ontario.

Here are some shots by @Norm from a trip around British Columbia.

My brother and I, with 2 friends rode the logging roads of northern Vancouver Island, then caught the ferry from Port Hardy to Bella Coola and rode highway 20 to Williams Lake. We had spectacular weather the whole trip and were very lucky to avoid the smoke that is plaguing most of Canada these days.

Above and below, that’s a 2022 Honda NC750X.

And that’s it for now, folks! Thank you for coming by, and please return next week for more. And if you have pictures, please send them to us. See the link below.