Cool video about an across the world trip on a bike.  Yeah yeah its no suzuki,    but still cool.  About 3 megs...

http://www.kcplazasportbikes.com/videos/Sjaak_the_World.wmv

there's another guy who's done a circumnavigation (three times?) on his gold wing.

That is awesome.  I want to do that some time, maybe in teh states first.  But ya I saw him in a magazine a couple weeks ago.  I never realized taht bike went through the mud and sand.  Thats awesome.

That'd be a great Yamaha commercial. Ewan eat yer jedi heart out!!

I totally wanna do a cross country ride some time, just to say ive done it. From Cali to Florida and back...now thats livin.

Quote from: DanielyI totally wanna do a cross country ride some time, just to say ive done it. From Cali to Florida and back...now thats livin.

20 to 1 odds you'd never make it to Yuma!!!!   :lol:

Just kidding. . .

Why on earth did he choose to use an R6?? He would have made it a lot easier for himself if he used an on/offroad bike, but than again maybe he was looking for a real challenge.

Thats rad. The last part was pretty cool

Dude's mental!

I am now inspired! I'm going to go around the world on my trials bike! :lol: :lol: :lol: or a scooter... or a Segway HT...

Sjaak had previous covered 160,000km around the world on a CBR900.  Took him 3 years and 7 days => 145 km / day... similar milage to some people's daily commute - I'll just imagine travelling to exotic places every morning when I ride to work...

Curse him! Now I'm having this fantacy of packing my bags, hauling them down to a BMW dealer on my GS, trade it in and get a F650 Dakar & all the accessory I need, load them up, and break in the bike on my way to Yukon, then Alaska, NWT... on and on and come back when the warranty expires.

yes yes... I met that guy at the Rock store like about a month ago.  He was selling some postcards from his trip.  He had about 135,000miles when I saw him. CRAZY.

Jonah.

I think it was an R1 and not an R6...but whatever...here is his homesite link:

http://www.r1goesextreme.com

I drove cross country in my truck with 2 other buddies in 2001.  It was an awesome trip from NJ to FL to TX to Vegas to Cali and then back to NJ...I will def do it again one day.  Possibly on a bike instead though?  ;o)

god my mind is wandering into dream land now.... amazing to say the least

That is amazing on a sport bike.  For more traditional world travelers check out

http://www.strikingviking.net/

http://www.advrider.com  Check out some of the trip reports.

on an R1...geez

Not promoting wheelies or reckless behavior since Im perfectly happy with my GS500F's TWO wheels on the ground at ALL times...but this guy is also pretty sick...Im sure he will be hamburger meat sometime soon.  Think its all on the NJ Garden State Parkway up in North NJ...His buddy on the CBR...wearing jeans doing this.  Even bigger moron...

large file, but on a quick server.

http://myfilez.net/uploads/videos/Monday.wmv

Great video - and I thought springtime potholes in Minnesota were bad!

Reminds of a book I read a few months ago when the bike was still in winter hibernation...Check out:

Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World (2004) by Ewan McGregor (Yes; that Obiwan) & Charley Boorman.

It aptly describes the need for offroad practice and preparation before such a trip. Also a few colorful tales of the heavily armed locals they met through eastern Europe and the 'stans of Asia.

As for me; I think that four corners ride of the lower 48 sounds like a great ride!

The best three months of my life were on a motorcycle traveling from Seattle to Amherst Massachusetts - by way of Cabo Mexico, Grand Canyon, Austin TX, and Key West FL.  Never a stright line and never on Interstates, a tent, sleeping bag and camp stove on back of my '82 Honda V45 750 Sabre.  It was just an awesome trip.

Ahhh, the memories.