A KTM in the garage…

I enjoyed the Ducati, but I’ve decided that I’m not Ben Spies no matter how much I might want to be. The reality is that I just want to enjoy riding motorcycles and racing around a track is not where my interests are. But I do believe that there are adventures to be had and they are all around, mainly down a gravel or dirt road.   The question that seems to begin every adventure is something like “I wonder where that road goes?”

So I’m going to find out where those roads go. Not every one, but the ones that seem to have adventure written all over them.   So, having made that decision, I needed a bike that could take me to the place at the end of the road.   For that, I chose a KTM.   You know, the bikes that a prominently mentioned, ridden by winners, and respected by all competitors in some very famous races.   Baha 1000, ISDE, and the Dakar Rally to name the primary ones.

I found an inmate on the advrider.com site that was interested in trading his KTM 950 Adventure S for my Ducati, so we put together a deal.   He lives on Long Island and I’m in northern Illinois, so consummating this trade was going to involve a trip for both of us.   OH NO!   Not a road trip!   Those of you that have followed my exploits are familiar with my trip stories, so let me apologize now for those.   This one will be a little different.

We agreed to meet at the Ohio – Pennsylvania border at I-80, and we hit the road.   We did meet up, and complete the swap, but not where we thought.   Stay tuned for the rest of the story…

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