Hey folks, there some good articles about people touring on XTR's in this month's edition of ABR magazine...

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Good articles maybe, but its one magazine I wont be buying after their treatment of our mr keithblade last year!

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The write up was on an XT-R, in both cases (Turkey and Namibia)


I too follow the same thoughts. Heavily reliant on BMW content and the reviews are based around what the magazine can a get for free, rather than a broad sweep of the available goods on the market, so what you get is a squew'd review based on no criteria I can find documented.

The features, well I'm not really taken with those either, take this months review of the Worldcrosser, it asks the question "Worldcrosser - A Super Tenere in Drag?" Doh! of course it is, and anyone remotely interested in these genre of bike will see that straight away. These are things I would expect to see in MCN.....

And the tent review.... really, people are going to spend �400 on a tent for the bike ?? I'm not sure why some of these got 8 out of 10, if I were climbing in the Alps, then yes there is a need for a very good quality tent, but in motorcycling terms, �400 for a one man tent is not good value for money, especially when you can get an excellent 3 man tent, bike carry-able for well under �100.

When my current subscription comes to an end, I won't be renewing it. Still searching for that all round high quality mag that TBM used to be, but alas no more.

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Many reasons I only have upto issue 6.

ABR is one man (very opinionated) and nothing else. Shame really because I think we would all lookforward to a good read. Not that you could satisfy all the people all the time etc. but just like TBM went sour when the Orange cloud decended over them ABR will be the same.

Maybe there is room for one of our own making........................

What I would like to see is when you do a Jacket test you actually ride the bike with the jacket on and not just wear the round the office for an hour. That is cheap.

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Good point about biking in general. Think I've said it before but once the bike leaves the garage its an adventure.
I suppose the only difference with the XT is that there are few limits to where you can go on it.

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According to the Oxford dictionary adventure means - "an unusual and exciting or daring experience".

Talking of magazine material, I've just realised that it is the 100th anniversary of the first round the world trip on a motorcycle, I don't think I've seen it mentioned anywhere, you would have thought it was worth a small corner of an ABR? Surprising seeing as "unusual and daring experience bikes" are all the rage at the moment!

Interestingly Carl Stearns Clancy didn't ride a BMW to complete his epic "adventure", he chose a Henderson! I guess we have to blame him as the first to use the word adventure (well adventurer) motorcycling in 1912. Still, great achievement though and he deserves remembering.

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