In the meantime, I kept riding my 2022 G310GS and I’m not babying it. I now have 24,686 miles on it. This included a 2022 trip from NC to the BMW National Rally in Missouri to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, via the NEBDR and back to NC; a 2023 trip from NC that included the MABDR, the PABDR-X, the Atlantic Spur of the Trans America Trail (TAT) from the Appalachia Mountains to Cape Hatteras, NC, and the BMW National Rally at Richmond, VA; and a second 2023 trip on the TAT from Hot Springs, NC, to Port Orford, OR, to La Crescent, MN, with the BHBDR-X added along the way and a fun curvy road route back to NC. I had Eurosport in Mills River, NC, (formerly in Asheville) do the 24K service and they found nothing to suggest I can’t keep going.
For 2024, I’m tired of the great plains, so I’m going to cheat by trailering the bike to start from either my friend’s house in Colorado Springs, CO, or my cousin’s house in Prescott City, AZ. From one of those two starts, I’m going to the Redmond, OR, BMW National Rally via the Continental Divide Trail and/or as many BDRs as I can fit in. After that, I may go further if there’s a decent weather window for Alaska or I’ll do more BDRs as I make my way back.
Keep having fun. I sure am.
JerryG
Leaving home on the TAT trip from NC to OR to MN:
Cape Hatteras end of the TAT Atlantic Spur:
A few miles from Wyoming Mountain in the Wyoming Range in, you guessed it, Wyoming:
TAT’s end at Port Orford, OR:
Cement Ridge Lookout on the Black Hills BDR-X (my G310GS is bit right of the latrine):
