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<blockquote data-quote="simme" data-source="post: 1705507" data-attributes="member: 40418"><p>My friend is not rich, just determined. Some of his fellow riders on those trips certainly have lots of money. But, true riches are probably not measured in money. He just enjoys adventure and living life to the fullest. He has achieved that and has a richness of experience.</p><p></p><p>On the GlobeRiders tours, he usually paid to ship his bike to Seattle where the tour operator is located. The guy there secures all the bikes in shipping containers and ships them to the starting point of the tour. All fluids have to be drained, so it takes some time to get them road ready when they are removed from the shipping container. Sometimes involved paying a bribe to the customs guy. At the end of the trip, they were shipped back to Seattle where the owner had to pick them up or get them shipped back home. Bikes are secured at night during the tour with someone paid to watch them. Getting repairs made in some countries and remote locations often required some creativity. But there is usually a group of local bikers around that will help out their fellow biker friends, even if they don't speak the same language or otherwise have much in common. Portions of the trips in very remote areas of very different countries where the local people had never seen anything like the riders and their bikes.</p><p>I found this link to some of the journals from the China silk road tour. Mike M. and Linda S. are my friends.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.globeriders.com/live!journal_pages/gsr07_live!journal/gsr07_journal_week08.shtml[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Mike also raced bikes and I think he was pretty successful. Daytona and other places in the US. He also spent considerable money developing custom racing bike engines. After injuries in a crash a few years ago and a long recovery, I think he has mostly given up the racing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simme, post: 1705507, member: 40418"] My friend is not rich, just determined. Some of his fellow riders on those trips certainly have lots of money. But, true riches are probably not measured in money. He just enjoys adventure and living life to the fullest. He has achieved that and has a richness of experience. On the GlobeRiders tours, he usually paid to ship his bike to Seattle where the tour operator is located. The guy there secures all the bikes in shipping containers and ships them to the starting point of the tour. All fluids have to be drained, so it takes some time to get them road ready when they are removed from the shipping container. Sometimes involved paying a bribe to the customs guy. At the end of the trip, they were shipped back to Seattle where the owner had to pick them up or get them shipped back home. Bikes are secured at night during the tour with someone paid to watch them. Getting repairs made in some countries and remote locations often required some creativity. But there is usually a group of local bikers around that will help out their fellow biker friends, even if they don't speak the same language or otherwise have much in common. Portions of the trips in very remote areas of very different countries where the local people had never seen anything like the riders and their bikes. I found this link to some of the journals from the China silk road tour. Mike M. and Linda S. are my friends. [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.globeriders.com/live!journal_pages/gsr07_live!journal/gsr07_journal_week08.shtml[/URL] Mike also raced bikes and I think he was pretty successful. Daytona and other places in the US. He also spent considerable money developing custom racing bike engines. After injuries in a crash a few years ago and a long recovery, I think he has mostly given up the racing. [/QUOTE]
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