Easy Motorcycle Touring: A Rider's Guide to the Open Road

- "One of the best new Motorcycle books" - BookAuthority- Featured in the bmwmoa.org podcast "200 Miles Before Breakfast"!Easy Motorcycle Touring is the complete guide to motorcycle touring for riders who want to go touring, but aren’t sure how to start.If you want to explore new roads, away from the familiar, away from the safety of your comfort zone and off the fold of the map, if you want to have your breath taken by unfamiliar vistas and your goggles splatted by unfamiliar bugs, if you want to pitch your tent under unfamiliar trees, beside streams singing new water songs, this book is for you.Written by a lifelong touring rider with over a million miles on two wheels, Easy Motorcycle Touring covers everything you need to know to start touring: understanding your goals and limits, picking the right bike and the right gear, planning your rides, surviving cities, freeways and damp sleeping bags, handling surprises and mishaps and living with your Inner Outlaw.In this engaging, entertaining, thoughtful and very readable book, Barry Dwernychuk shares advice, techniques and tips proven to work over his fifty years on two wheels. Although written with the new rider in mind, this book is a great read for motorcyclists of all skill and experience levels.This Second Edition adds an expanded section on planning your tours, including the tricky business of choosing riding partners and unpleasant reality of planning your tour finances. Also new is an expert exposition of rain riding techniques.