Two years on Transalp 650XL – that’s how long it took me to gain some experience and feel the motorcycle. In the winter of 2013, I changed my gear – I started the upcoming 2014 season on a KTM 990ADV, having bought it and not having previously ridden (even during buying inspection) any equipment with similar parameters, I didn’t know yet how big a challenge I had decided to make.
With the purchase of the “orange”, the globe spinning in my head for 2014 stopped on an island I didn’t know much about because until that time I hadn’t been interested in the northern regions. I only knew that it was rather rainy, windy and that many of polish citizens went there – yes, I know, it sounds like Great Britain (but it doesn’t) – so not necessarily the most pleasant destination for riding a motorcycle. How wrong I was – Iceland turned out to be my destination 100%.
2014 brought another change (mentioned improvement) – we will no longer be catching kilometres on boring motorways with motorcycles. We transported them to Hirtshals (Denmark) for the ferry to Iceland by car with a trailer. This solution also turned out to be a bull’s eye – not only could we take turns “behind the wheel” every few hours, thanks to which we reached the ferry in much better physical shape than if we had covered this distance on motorcycles, but also (and probably most importantly) we did not use our motorcycles prepared for Icelandic off-road.
The car with the trailer remained in port, we and our motorcycles went on a 3-day cruise to Iceland, with a nearly 12-hour stopover in the Faroe Islands.
I couldn’t miss a shot from this beautiful island 🙂
From then until 2018, my motorcycle trips were mixed in the way I traveled – both traveling “on wheels” and gaining experience (as it turned out later for a way of earning money) in transporting by car on a trailer.
Why until 2018? More on that in the next posts 🙂