So, time to join the IBA-forum. I´d like to tell you a bit about myself and my background.
I´m a danish motorcyclist (not a "biker"
), who´s been riding motorcycles both summer and winter since 1981. My first "long" ride was in 1982 with my uncle and one of his friends, to Formula 1 in Belgium (having just a few month riding experience this certainly was a long ride!). And to be honest, I wasn´t impressed by the way they rode; to much "it will probably work out", and to little planning.
But I liked the thought of riding long trips, so (to make a long story short), over the next many years, I developed my own way of doing it, though there was some years where I didn´t ride much, caused by house buying, marriage and children.
In 2009 I bought a new Honda XL 1000 Varadero (a bike not sold in the USA), and in 2010, two Honda Africa Twins, of which I build a nice winterbike. One of the Africa Twins had a sticker from Iron Butt Association on the fuel tank (the guy who sold them to me, had been in USA riding Harley, including an Iron Butt Ride). Having never heard of this, I went on the internet and found an organization with the same goal as myself: safe long distance riding! At that time, my longest ride had been 1250 km home from Norway, which, with my developed way of riding was a piece of cake, so 360 km more didn´t frighten me.
In 2011 I planned a trip to Kirkeness and The North Cape in Norway, and this gave me the opportunity of trying to do a double Iron Butt Ride; a SaddleSore 1600K and a BunBurner 2500K. This ride went beyond expectation, and I got my first IBA certificates! Over the next years, I did both a couple of SaddleSore 1600K´s and a couple of SaddleSore 2000K´s, culminating with the BunBurner Gold 2500K in August last year.
Next step for me, is looking at the Mile Eater program, which I´ve now been working on for some month, hoping to reach some specific level before Christmas.
I´m a danish motorcyclist (not a "biker"
), who´s been riding motorcycles both summer and winter since 1981. My first "long" ride was in 1982 with my uncle and one of his friends, to Formula 1 in Belgium (having just a few month riding experience this certainly was a long ride!). And to be honest, I wasn´t impressed by the way they rode; to much "it will probably work out", and to little planning. But I liked the thought of riding long trips, so (to make a long story short), over the next many years, I developed my own way of doing it, though there was some years where I didn´t ride much, caused by house buying, marriage and children.
In 2009 I bought a new Honda XL 1000 Varadero (a bike not sold in the USA), and in 2010, two Honda Africa Twins, of which I build a nice winterbike
. One of the Africa Twins had a sticker from Iron Butt Association on the fuel tank (the guy who sold them to me, had been in USA riding Harley, including an Iron Butt Ride). Having never heard of this, I went on the internet and found an organization with the same goal as myself: safe long distance riding! At that time, my longest ride had been 1250 km home from Norway, which, with my developed way of riding was a piece of cake, so 360 km more didn´t frighten me. In 2011 I planned a trip to Kirkeness and The North Cape in Norway, and this gave me the opportunity of trying to do a double Iron Butt Ride; a SaddleSore 1600K and a BunBurner 2500K. This ride went beyond expectation, and I got my first IBA certificates! Over the next years, I did both a couple of SaddleSore 1600K´s and a couple of SaddleSore 2000K´s, culminating with the BunBurner Gold 2500K in August last year.
Next step for me, is looking at the Mile Eater program, which I´ve now been working on for some month, hoping to reach some specific level before Christmas
.
