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		<title>Mason-Dixon 20-20 Endurance Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff and Todd (Team MotoTourers!) are entering this year&#8217;s Mason-Dixon 20-20 endurance rally. This year the rally is based out of Hagerstown, Maryland over Memorial Day weekend. Riders (maximum of 75 this year) head out on the morning of Saturday, May 26, to collect points for visiting pre-determined waypoints, and return Sunday afternoon for scoring; awards are presented Sunday evening. The event, while mainly an endurance ride, will test riders&#8217; ability to plan and navigate to various points within the confines of a structured ruleset. With a mileage cap and mandatory rest period in place, the event does not promote a banzai-style full-speed run all over the map, but rather encourages safe speeds by relying on better planning and routing. Winners will generally be the best navigators, not the fastest riders. While normally an individual effort, Jeff and Todd have decided to both enter and run as a team. A solo rider/bike may be able to move quicker and make shorter stops overall, but the team is making plans to take advantage of the two-man concept to save time. Photographic proof is the standard for collecting points at bonus locations, so Todd offered the idea that they simply photograph each other, so they don&#8217;t even have to get off the bikes when they find a bonus location. Participating in their first organized endurance rally, having a partner along for the ride provides the comfort of a safety net, should anything and everything go wrong. After traveling 9,000+ miles on the....]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to MOTOTOURERS.com</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=291</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MotoTourers.com was originally MotoTour2010.com, a site where Jeff and Todd chronicled their preparations and adventures on their first multi-week motorcycle road trip. That four-week, 9,000-mile ride is still being chronicled here, along with hundreds of photographs from scenic and historic locations around the U.S.A. Prior to the MotoTour 2010 trip, Jeff chronicled his motorcycling adventures on the blog website, BigBandit.com. Those articles and photographs have been incorporated into this site as well. Further motorcycling endeavors and adventures will continue to be posted here, as Todd and Jeff prepare for a two-week ride around the Great Lakes, a trip entitled MotoTour 2012.]]></description>
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		<title>Merge</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=274</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just updated this site with all of my ride reports from my other motorcycling blog, BigBandit.com, dating back to 2001. BigBandit.com has been removed. The domain for BigBandit.com will now point here, to MotoTourers.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Got A New Bike!</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=206</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bike Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kawasaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[montgomeryville]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have already mentioned that the Versys strikes me as the Subaru of motorcycles. No, it’s not all-wheel-drive, but – like Subarus &#8211; it does seamlessly blend sporty road performance with practicality, character, and all-road capability. It’s a sport bike at heart, but it’s so much more, and with almost none of the drawbacks inherent to more narrowly-focused canyon-carvers. It is a bit tall, though. Bob at Montgomeryville Cycle Center forewarned me that Kawasaki made one mistake with the Versys: they built it about two inches too tall for the average rider. The first time I threw a leg over it before driving off from the dealership, I had to more or less throw my knee onto the seat, and then slide my leg across. My 30-inch inseam will not allow me to just jump onto the Versys. Later, I found myself doing the ballet mount, tossing my leg onto the seat heel-first, then hopping closer to the bike on my other foot, much like one is forced to do when the passenger seat is loaded with a ton of gear. While the ballet method felt more comfortable, I felt a little weird mounting the bike like that in front of other people; I already pulled some laughs from strangers while getting on my loaded VFR that way last year. If it only had a center stand, I’d feel most comfortable mounting it like I would a horse, stepping onto the left foot peg before throwing my right leg over.....]]></description>
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		<title>MotoTourers meet WheelNerds</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=176</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alaska]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff made a Skype call-in to the WheelNerds podcast to weigh Todd&#8217;s idea of taking a pair of Urals to Alaska for MotoTour 2013. The WheelNerds suggested buying new Urals on the west coast and going for it. We&#8217;ll see how that pans out by 2013&#8230; Check out the WheelNerds&#8217; Episode 18, &#8220;Listener Unappreciation&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Gallery Added</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=99</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MotoTour 2010 Photo Gallery is up!  We will be adding hi-res photos to the gallery as we post the related articles right here on the main page.]]></description>
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		<title>MotoTour 2010 returns to The Pace</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=90</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in January, Jeff and Todd once again were invited to chat with James and Chris of The Pace Motorcycle Podcast.  The guys discuss the trip, equipment failures, annoying rabbits, and more, in Episode 58: It&#8217;s funny because it didn&#8217;t happen to me.]]></description>
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		<title>Done and Done!</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=84</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trip went as well as planned, from September 18th through October 16th. Detailed articles, photos and videos are coming soon!]]></description>
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		<title>DAYS 3 AND 4 &#8211; Anamosa, Iowa to Winner, South Dakota</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=185</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After assuring our Facebook friends and followers that Todd was not going to die, we set off from Anamosa with at least three days to ride before we were expected to arrive in Denver. We had plans to hit some notable sites: Sturgis, Mount Rushmore, Devil&#8217;s Tower, Crazy Horse Monument, and others. The trials and tribulations began in earnest over these next few days, but we persevered. Leaving Anamosa early on Monday afternoon, we hit a mix of two-lane and interstate highway, heading west across the state of Iowa.  The skies had cleared, but the wind was picking up.  We found ourselves leaning sideways at semi-illegal speeds on the open highway.  A constant 30mph crosswind from the south kept us fighting the handlebars, and wore a strip in our front tires about an inch left of center.  Long fuel breaks made it easier to get back on and deal with the effort of fighting the wind that threatened to pick my VFR up like a para-sail and toss it in front of the next truck I passed.  The hotel in Sioux City that night was a welcomed comfort, and we arrived not long after riding into the sunset. Fueling up Tuesday morning on the outskirts of Sioux City, Todd and I agreed we needed to hit more 2-lane roads.  We decided to take the advice of our Facebook friend Mark Hill to avoid the interstate across South Dakota.  After taking I-29 north to Sioux Falls, we picked up Rt 44....]]></description>
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		<title>Day Three &#8211; The National Motorcycle Museum</title>
		<link>http://mototour2010.com/weblog/?p=167</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can I say about the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa?  It&#8217;s a museum. Full of motorcycles. The museum is filled with all types of motorcycles, but mostly vintage pieces. There are a few items from movies (like one of the surviving Captain America bikes from &#8220;Easy Rider&#8221;), as well as one of Evel Kneivel&#8217;s bikes and one-off show pieces from Arlen Ness.  There are a few sections that pay homage to personalities that made motorcycling popular, such as the first women&#8217;s motorcycle club in the USA. There is the Roadog, a huge one-off machine that looks like a two-wheeled freight train. The most impressive display is a mocked-up section of board-track, displaying the race bikes from the days when brave men raced on a banked wooden oval. All in all, it&#8217;s very diverse. But to be honest, I didn&#8217;t take any notes, so it would be futile to try and recount any of the displays in detail.  If I told you all the ins and outs of the displays, along with the high-resolution photos, there would be little reason to visit.  However, if you are anywhere near the area, or are planning a trip across the plains states, this is a great place to spend a few hours. One thing I will never forget about the National Motorcycle Museum, is that there is an emergency medical clinic right across the street&#8230;]]></description>
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