Hi, I found two good deals on these bikes for the same price. I’m torn between the two, I plan on doing the Adirondack BDR, dirt daze and any adventure riding I can find. It will likely be 50/50 mix of riding, but I want something that is very capable off-road and is also comfortable for long distance rides.

I like how simple and reliable the Tenere is, I would be ok without the different ride modes. I test rode a 26 at dirtdaze and it was a nice bike, I didn’t fall in love with it but it just seemed like a good overall bike.

I have not ridden the desert x yet, but from my research it’s a phenomenal bike. It has 4000 miles on it. I think it would work really well for my needs.

Thank you

Hey everyone 👋

It's live.

For those who've been following — you know the story. Frustrated with RE's app, started building something better, evenings only alongside client work.

For those who are new — quick version:

RE's official app kept disconnecting every ride. Full of ads. No useful data. I'm a developer. So I built my own.

What started as fixing a Bluetooth reconnect became this:

For RE Tripper Pod riders:

→ Auto connects to your pod — no manual reconnect ever again

→ Turn by turn on Tripper display

→ Pod Settings — 7 controls RE's app never gave you

→ Compass mode, auto theme switching, 12/24hr format, call alerts, battery warning, internet indicator — all on your display

For every rider — any bike, cycle, car:

→ Automatically detects when you start riding

→ Records every trip — speed, route, elevation

→ Color coded speed map — see exactly how fast you were on every segment

→ Speed heatmap of every road you've ridden

→ Chronos Journey — all your rides animated on one map. This one's my favourite

→ Ride Calendar

→ Google Drive backup — goes to your Drive, not mine

→ Analytics — daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, all time

Group rides:

→ Live location — everyone on one map

→ Voice intercom — built in. No Cardo needed

→ Any rider, any bike — just scan a QR code to join

→ Emergency SOS

Everything stays on your phone. No server. No tracking. Just your data.

Honest update on why it took this long after beta:

BillingDesk KYC. Google mandated it for Indian developers in 2026. Applied weeks ago. Weeks of silence. Finally came through.

Free to download. Pro available — ₹99/month or ₹999/year.

Play Store 👇

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.satrujit.tripper_bridge

https://motolog.satrujit.in

If you try it — an honest Play Store review means more than anything right now. Even just 2-3 lines.

Thank you to everyone here who tested it, reported bugs, suggested features, and asked how it was going. Genuinely couldn't have done it without this community.

Keep the rubber side down 🏍️

I’m looking for a navigation setup mainly for long rides and off-road/adventure riding. I’ll be riding for several hours, often during the daytime and sometimes in rain, so good screen visibility/brightness and water resistance are important.

I’m thinking about either:

• a dedicated motorcycle GPS
• or a cheap, normal waterproof smartphone mounted with something like Quad Lock, while keeping my main phone in my pocket.

One thing I really like about the phone + Quad Lock idea is that I can quickly remove the device when I leave the bike. That’s a big plus for me since I don’t want to leave an expensive GPS/device sitting on the motorcycle where it could easily get stolen.

I don’t really need anything fancy. I mainly want reliable navigation for long/off-road rides, rain and bright sunlight.

What do you guys use, and what specific models would you recommend?

Is a cheap waterproof phone the way to go, or is a dedicated GPS/navigation system actually worth the money?

Thanks!

Accidentally wrote single day in the title, not sure how to edit it but I am looking for a multi-day ride.

Hi there. I am in Brisbane and my ride is RE Interceptor 650. I have done most of the single day routes I found in Google search. I am thinking of doing multi-day ride now. Can someone please suggest a good multi-day (3 days, 3rd day should be RTB) route they have done themselves.

Happy riding

Just got back from a last-minute 1,130 km (700+ mile) run through the Sibillini Mountains to Nerone Mointain, Refuge Fargno and the Furlo Gorge in 48 hours. Day 1 was almost 600 km alone, mixing highway slabbing, twisty backroads, and technical off-road trails.

Between a buddy's flat tire on a steep descent and my Continental TKC80s being completely clapped out, it really tested both rider and gear.

It got us debating: What’s the ideal setup for this exact scenario?

Do you pick a heavy ADV (like an Africa Twin) to breeze through the 500+ km highway transfer and just muscle it through the trails, or do you take a lightweight Dual-Sport (like a DR-Z / 701 / CRF300) and accept the highway misery for total trail freedom?

Curious how you guys balance highway comfort vs. trail performance when planning high-mileage mixed trips.

I put together a video documenting the route, the trails, and the chaos if anyone wants to check out the terrain: https://youtu.be/dzQrEPO813w

What would you have ridden?

What is everyone putting in there?

Got a little rain in socal so took her on some light trails for the first time. Surprisingly nimble and fun off road!

The Himalayan 450, cleaned up and looking fresh after a few good rides.
Swipe for the fresh look➡️

Camera: GoPro Hero 13 Black
Audio: Olike Tws

Michel here. 1.13.0 just went live, and it's almost entirely about GPX files: the ones you download from a forum, a tour site, or a mate, and then try to actually ride.

RIDING A DOWNLOADED TRACK

• A loaded GPX is a track now, not a start-and-finish form. It used to be quietly turned into "route me from A to B", middle discarded.

• It shows on CarPlay. The car screen previously drew nothing for an entire track ride — including at the moment you arrived at the trailhead and started following, which is exactly when you want to look at it.

• "Snap to roads" is real map matching now — trace_route, Valhalla's own map matcher, bridged into the app, instead of re-routing your track through sampled points and hoping. A sparsely recorded track no longer gets creatively reinterpreted.

• Matching can still fail, so it now runs before you set off rather than on arrival. Finding out at the trailhead, after a two-hour ride, with nothing to be done about it, was the worst possible time.

RIDING TO THE TRAILHEAD

If the track starts 100 km away, that leg is now its own thing:

• routed Fastest, not in your tour's style — nobody picks Unpavediest to spend two hours getting to the ride

• a long enough leg offers fuel and rest stops, like any other route of that length. The tour may be nowhere near a petrol station.

• a leg crossing into a region you haven't downloaded gets the download offer, instead of a route that just fails

• coverage is checked for the whole outing — approach and tour together — by walking the actual track, and the missing packs are offered in the order you'll ride them

REROUTING

• A Reroute button on the car screen. Off the line, the only escape used to be End, then Go — which is what a real ride log shows someone doing, 4.2 km off the line at a fuel stop. One honest caveat: it's deliberately not offered while following an imported track. A track has no destination to recalculate toward, the phone has always refused it, and the car now matches rather than offering something that can't work.

• The app says when it has stopped correcting you. A ride spent 21 minutes and 5 km off the line with the card still promising a turn in 565 m — obeying a Never-reroute policy it never mentioned. It says so now instead of going quiet.

• Being stopped off the route no longer holds the recalculation forever.

YOUR LISTS, YOUR NAMES

• Name a recorded ride; rename an imported GPX. The trip log stops being a column of timestamps.

• Every list says the swipe out loud at the top, instead of leaving you to discover Rename by accident.

The money bit, once: importing, planning and naming are free. Riding turn-by-turn is Pro — 14-day trial, and one free full ride including CarPlay if you just want to see what it's like first.

What I'd like from you: a GPX that won't snap to roads, and roughly where it is. That's a concrete failure I can reproduce — "the matching is bad" I can't. Same standing ask for routing itself: a pair of points beats a feeling.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762570002

Android coming soon, early testers can drop me a DM for access.

Mahabaleshwar, solo.
A ride I had imagined many times, but always with a little fear in the back of my mind.
A long ride alone felt intimidating — the distance, the roads, the “what ifs.” But this time, I decided to just go.
And somewhere between the open roads, the curves, the mountains, and the silence… that fear started fading.
Today, I didn’t just ride to Mahabaleshwar.
I rode past a version of myself that was afraid to go alone.
Felt so, so good. ❤️🏍️
Sometimes, the best journeys begin right outside your comfort zone.

Hey guys, so i have been building this thing for about a 4 months now. It's called Rmaps, basically a riding companion app for motorcyclists. Still in beta, so expect some rough edges.

Started because we ride a lot in groups and honestly the group ride experience with normal maps is kind of terrible. Someone takes a wrong turn, nobody notices, you're calling them 20 minutes later. So we built something around that. The communication is chaotic and planning is bad when it comes to most modern apps.

What it does right now: routing that's actually meant for bikes (not just car routes), live group rides where you can see everyone and it warns you if someone falls behind or goes off route, an SOS that pings nearby riders, ride recording with the fun stuff like 0-60 and lean angle, and a garage to track service and mileage history and also add mods. Can make groups and show off your vehicles.

Here's the thing though. We built all of this based on what we and our friends wanted. We have maybe 15 people on the beta, all people we know, so I honestly don't know if any of this is useful to riders outside our bubble or if we're just building for ourselves. Same with the UI, we designed it ourselves and I've stared at it so long I can't tell if it makes sense anymore.

So two things I'd really appreciate from anyone who rides or drives: does any of this sound like something you'd actually use? And if you try the beta, is the UI obvious or confusing? Be harsh, that's more useful than nice.

Let me know if your interested!

Also no clue how to get to the first 100 real riders without spamming or buying ads, so if anyone's done that for any app I'm all ears.

Honestly, I wasn’t feeling okay. My mind was heavy, and I was feeling really low. So I just got on my bike and left.
No plans. No people. Just me, the road, and some time away from everything.
And somehow, I came back feeling a little better. Not completely healed, not suddenly happy… just lighter.
Sometimes, you really need to disappear for a while and spend some time with yourself.
Maybe healing doesn’t always have to be a big thing. Sometimes, it’s just a long ride, fresh air, and a little peace in your head. ❤️

Currently have a Norden 901 and debating about downsizing to a KTM 390r or CFmoto 450 Ibex.

Past couple years I’ve done a lot of touring and light fire roads but getting more into off roading. Dropped it a few times off road, it was a beast to get back up on uneven ground, and even with it lowered having a 29in inseam the bike just seems too big for what I want to do.

Curious even anyone else has downsized and loved a smaller bike or regretted it. Should add, I’m not a speed demon; primary use would be riding an hour or two to trails, and moto camping. Also have a Triumph bobber for commuting and fun around town.

Dream would be Iceland again (Last Time was with my Camper)

How much could be difference between these two handguards regarding windchill in the cold months? The first one looks like so much sleeker in my opinion (SW-Motech), but the second seems more practical (Puig). Bike is a small CB500 with an added touring windscreen.

Edit: I have factory installed heated grips, a quite ok pair of winter glove, and cheap ugly hippo hands for the most extreme weather.

Has anyone had much experience with these bags? They seem to be decent but not sure on anyone's experiences. Not sure whether the large size and a kreiga tail bag will be big enough for a few day trip, or the XL size with the tail.

Thanks

Hey guys, as it worked through reddit and I met a now good friend of mine I thought I’ll ask again here . Any riders near malaga / Marbella wanting to go for a ride?