GS Trophy
Hi Grant, Butch and NuffSaid
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Hopefully that makes sense
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yes Grant it makes a lot of sense to me. Sure we are not only about people riding around the world here on the Hubb. But this kind of competitons give people the impression that you need to ride a 1200GS/Supertenere/KTM 1290 Adv. like a pro to do any kind of journey outside your own country, which we know is not true.
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but IMO I think events like these are good for motorbiking in general and good for RTW world travellers and good for the HUBB
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ok, NuffSaid, I disagree. IMO any kind of competiton is not good for traveling in general or the Hubb. Traveling is not about competing with somebody, its about yourself and your journey, the people you meet and the things you learn. If you compete/compare your journey to somebody elses you loose the aim of your journey. And you will always meet somebody that has traveled more extrem, longer, to more remote places ... so its not about this, its about your journey. So IMO this kind of events are contraproductive to individual travel.
@ TBR China. Butch. I have also never owned a boxer engine. And a trained Bmw mechanic told me a few weeks ago .... its a car engine in a motorcycle frame ... anyway, I was thinking according this line for many years.
But who am I to tell other what they should ride or not? As I said above its about everybodies individual journey and not about competiton.
So, pls excuse my interruption on this thread and enjoy the GS Trophy.
Hope to see you here in Bolivia for the HU mini meeting 2018. 16.-18. of March. I will have a bike waiting for you here if you decide to fly in.
A hug and all the best
mika
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