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Old 23 Apr 2019
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Last, Last and Nevermore ADV Event August 11-14, 2019 Colorado, USA
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LAST “BIG DOG ADV RIDE” ANNOUNCED - August, 2019 USA, Colorado Rocky Mountains

Immediate Information Sharing: April 23, 2019

(Los Angeles, CA): The 30th Running of the Dogs, also known as the “Big Dog Adventure Ride,” has announced their last physical fraternal gathering. Themed the “Last, Last, and Nevermore ‘Buttercup’” event is slated for August 11-14, 2019.

Cited as the world’s “highest, toughest, dirtiest and meanest” big displacement off-road motorcycle adventure ride, the Big Dog Adventure Ride invitational is open to a limited number of entrants on 640cc displacement motorcycles or larger.

The 2019 event will be based in Silverthorne, Colorado. An optional day ride from BMW of Denver is a “mild ride” on August 11 for adventurists wanting to add a personal day of “Hollywood Styled Adventure Riding” to the group’s base camp. The official Start is August 12, from Silverthorne.

Invited entrants in this year’s event include riders from as far away as South Africa, Peru, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Great Britain and Australia. Entrants will be mounted on BMWs, Kawasaki’s, Yamahas, Hondas, KTMs and possibly a highly modified 750cc 1936 Indian Sport Scout, an early 1970’s adventure sidecar outfit and a confirmed BMW 1975 R75/6 with famed adventurist John Wesley Ogden evidencing adventuring riding from the pre “ADV themed” era.

Event VIPs in the past have included longtime host of the event, BMW of Denver (www.bmwofdenver.com), Bob’s BMW of Jessup, Maryland (www.bobsbmw.com), Sandia BMW of Albuquerque, New Mexico (www.sandiabmwmotorcycles.com), Globe Rider Productions, Kawasaki Motors Corp, U.S.A. (www.kawasaki.com) and well known adventure motorcycle outfitters, Aerostich (www.aerostich.com), Wolfman Luggage (www.wolfmanluggage.com) and Happy Trails of Boise, Idaho (www.happy-trail.com).

Event Promoter, Ron Douglas, said of the 2019 gathering, “It’ll be wild and woolly like previous Big Dog events, pushing our fraternity of entrants’ physical and mental envelopes as they tag and top some the highest navigable passes on the North American continent. It has always been a non- Buttercup event. Since this is our ‘Last, last’ event we’ll be kicking the Buttercup ghost of ‘Nevermore’ down dirt roads, tracks and off cliffs or into freezing mountain streams.”

The BIG DOG ADVENTURE RIDE is an annual fraternal invitational gathering of serious and extreme dual-sport motorcycle adventurists, or “The Annual Running of the Dogs.” Some openings are available for first time entrants. Interested and advanced motorcycle adventure riders should contact bigdogbmw@yahoo.com after scrolling through the BIG DOG website at www.horizonsunlimited.com/bigdog to evaluate if they have “The Ride Stuff.”

“The BIG DOG ADVENTURE RIDE is neither a race nor rally. It is the annual event of a collection of a fraternity of honorable, like-minded, and serious motorcycle adventure aficionados sharing a similar philosophy, their way of being.”
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Big dog nevermore reportage
Embargoed Lifted October 27, 2019: CONTRIBUTED TO “ADVENTURE FOREVERMORE” SUCCESS


Many “Thanks” to the following for inspiring, empowering and contributing to the 2019 BIG DOG “Last, Last and Nevermore” Adventure Ride. As predicted, it was “wild and woolly,” ranging from an entrant traveling half way around the world to attend the voluminous urinac water flows into the void of integrity and honor within the Nevermore pissoir helmet garden art to the Big Dogs wildly laughing as the dust settled:


Ronnie Weinzapfel
Tim Wise
Ed Russell
John Ogden, Jr.
Nathan Mende
Stephan Taylor
Brad Wheeler
Jeff Rowland
John Harkins
David Hrenchir
Rene Dhenin
Rodger Black
John Lane
Jim Lane
Allan Spencer
Clayton Porter
Mark Reilly
John Courtsunis Family (all)
Clem Cykowski
Ron Douglas
Jeff Allerman
T. G. Woody Witte/Woody’s Wheel Works
Avon Tyres
Bob’s BMW
Horizons Unlimited
CIMA/Nolan Motorcycle Helmets USA
Motorcycle Adventure University
America Now Screen Printing
ADV Rider
Arrowstar Publishing
BMW of Denver
Google/Facebook
Globe Rider Productions
Ride Asia
Ride Apart
ADV Moto/Adventure Motorcycle
# 91 Boom Boom Indian Racer/Racing Team
Happy Trails Products
Aerostich/RIDER Wearhouse


[Look for exclusive 2019 event reportage in The BMW Rider’s ON THE LEVEL Magazine]

Attached photograph is Clem Cykowski being honored by the BIG DOGS with a 30-year Big Dog Bone and signed “Thank you!” album from the many of the Big Dog entrants from over the years for his personal and many contributions to the world famous BIG DOG ADVENTURE RIDE.
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Motorcycle Adventurism with The Big Dogs goes Space Age

Through the digital wizardry of webmaster Grant Johnson, Big Dog motorcycle adventurism has moved from physical rock hopping and ground pounding to the Space Age with a cyber "Hello" to Elon Musk and his SpaceX rocket program. “The Last, Last Forevermore, with no Nevermore,” Big Dog wrap-up is here (Warning – satire and puns included):

https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/bi...nts/2019.shtml

A final bit of Big Dog earthy motorcycle adventurism before movement to the cyber world and Space Age included the induction of a new Big Dog, known as The Wild KTM Man On Java, into the selective fraternity:

https://www.rideasia.net/motorcycle-...ternity.11016/

Photo below is a Big Dog testing travel conditions on a surface similar to what will be found on the moon when Elon Musk and his SpaceX rocket land a Big Dog there, with likely an Electric Two-Wheel Vehicle.
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