I’ve been approached by Viking Bags in Los Angeles to use and review one of their ADV products, the Viking Apex ADV Touring Bag with Hydration Pack. You can catch the review here on UTADV.com and @UTADV once I’ve had a chance to put this gear through its paces. Check it out here.

After four attempts on my part, I finally got to ride a certain road that goes to the center of our galaxy or at least the very terrestrial and indigenous interpretation of said pavement. This is vague for a reason. I was joined by Brian and Mark and the three of us experienced the carnage…

Sweltering temps called for a cool ride to the Eastern Sierras of California. I met up with Brian and Mark to ride the region’s wonderful Highways 4, 89 and 108 loop over Sonora Pass and Ebbetts Peak, camping at Silver Creek near Markleeville.

With the Pearls on the Strand ride cut short, I was left with two bothersome whispers bouncing around my brain, neither of which were, was I ever going to pass this way again. That’s an inane thought anyway, one I never entertained when I was traveling without the guillotine of an incurable lymphoma. Funny how…

Putting new gear to the test this very early Spring. See how top brands of KLīM, SPOT, Klymit and Schuberth fare in UTADV’s adventures. One clue, you shouldn’t go anywhere without the pillow.

UTADV takes a first-timer through Zion National Park, finds the perfect campsite at Kodachrome Basin, and reviews Shower Pouch, Wise Owl Outfitters Tent Pegs, and the Camillus Camtrax Hatchet. Links in the comments.

I have a setting in my brain that goes to worst-case scenario (WCS) in just about any situation that disrupts my illusion of any kind of certainty, especially when adventuring on a motorcycle. Add to that a couple of medical conditions that require a bit of special handling on my part, especially in trauma conditions,…

Be sure to read this Tool Roll Update. Any new (to me) motorcycle that finds a home in the barn goes through a shake down; all fairings, panels and shrouds removed and all connecting hardware checked for proper torque. It’s through this process I assemble the tool kit for the bike. Every tool I use…

Prepping this trip hasn’t been without its challenges. Planning and organizing a 3500 mile trip for two on two ADV bikes, camping most of the way works my OCD in ways nothing else does. And I’ve arguably had too much time to do so, starting in December of 2019, pre-coronavirus, with a launch date in…

If you hit the overpass crossing of Twenty-first South at I-15 early in the morning you’ll come across a heavenly smell of baking bread, but only on a motorcycle. Spanish Fork’s Canyon winds will try to tip you to the west and the current’s even more fierce at Nephi. UDOT’s finally smoothed out that bucking…

This A/B living is interesting in what it does to my psyche. A being home in SLC and B being back in StG. It’s the transitions that give my noodle pause, the in-between, the commute where time and miles are now measured in thoughts instead of per-hour. Thoughts like hoping the lawn hasn’t overgrown beyond the mower’s…

Not one pic from this commute. As the KLR climbed the switchbacks to the Zion tunnel the sunrise light was dappled against the canyon’s west walls where there’s a discernible tree line. The light hit it perfectly creating this amazing highlight running along the lower third of the mountain leaving the rest to go to…

Great tips about hot weather riding.

Too used to Highway 9, a road through pioneer history, and another flat.

Took my breath away and the air out of my rear tire.

Motorcycling forces me in to and out of my seat and that’s a good thing, a rose-smelling thing, except on this trip, my initial stop was to smell the smoke.

A motorcycle is an amplifier, it magnifies everything that runs across your nervous system.

If you want to be immersed in Utah’s funky rural contexts, 89 is the most expedited way to do so.

Forrest Gump would have something to say about buying a used motorcycle, much like a box of chocolates.