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Photo by Alessio Corradini, on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, of two locals

I haven't been everywhere...
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Photo by Alessio Corradini,
on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia,
of two locals



Poll: (More) a biker or a traveler? Or a 4WDer or a traveler? (vote only one, pls)
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(More) a biker or a traveler? Or a 4WDer or a traveler? (vote only one, pls)

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Could it just be that when you ride a bike you go somewhere ??

Of course a long ride would mean that you go further
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Now that I've been riding outside of the USA, traveling has taken on an entirely different form. Still, if I couldn't ride, I'd still be happy to stuff a backpack and hoof it.
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Travelling Biker

The two are so closely connected - since by virtue of being under power and moving you are travelling...

I used to travel by boat, since I didn't like being landlocked. Now I travel by bike, because I don't want to be gridlocked!! I guess I will always travel, and if at some point for whatever reason it is no longer by bike, I will find the next thing....
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I find it's the best of both worlds for me since l was able to buy my own bike lve always had one sitting around somewhere, and now lve got the travel bug and my recent trip thru Thailand lve found the perfect match. In Thailand lve got a Kwaka 650 Versy and here in Oz just picked up a 2015 Triumph Explorer to do the big K's on
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True that. I'm finding all this debate a little pointless as well. But it seems like we're in the labeling age.
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True that. I'm finding all this debate a little pointless as well. But it seems like we're in the labeling age.
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This is a pointless semantic debate; does calling yourself one thing or the other change what you actually do? Why restrict yourselves with ridiculous labels?
Sorry, but no intention of labeling. Anyone here is obviously passionate about bikes and traveling, so no restriction. When someone said that he had 4 bikes in his garage but was still more of a traveller, you may understand many things. Maybe because I have two singles and consider myself more of a traveler, even though I love bikes.

Probably I was unable to explain the idea in the opening post, but some people missed the point. Nonetheless, I found it very interested (being away too long, but got this notification).

However, I've had the impression that those who considered themselves bikers were more annoyed by the fact of choosing. I may be wrong too, but I justo wondered why.

Rest assured this is not trolling, that's not me. Not to annoy anyone, justo chat and understand others with similar intereses.

Keep riding and travelling, happy and safely.

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I like to travel around on my bike but I have never tried long distance travelling. It doesn't feel safe but I also envy the people with the courage to roam the globe on their motorcycles. Who knows maybe one day if I buy a decent bike, I might take my wife on a long journey.
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It's real simple, If you go and ride your bike, even if you have no where to go, just for the sheer fun of it, you're a biker. If you also travel on it, you are, a Biker who travels.

If you are someone who ravels overland using whatever method available, you are a traveler. If you decide that a bike is a good mode of transport, you are a traveler who rides a bike.

If you are both of the above, you are, like me, a Biker and a Traveler.
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Traveler on a bike. What ever bike I can get my hands on in whatever corner of the world.

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I like riding my bike(s)--to and from work, around town, up to the mountains or out to the deserts and seashore.... But I was traveling long before I learned to ride: hitchhiking, walking, using pushbikes and freight trains, then finally cars and trucks.

Overland motorcycling has been a blast, and has taken me a lot of worthy places. But for me, it's been a part of my aging process, in which I pay increasing amounts of money to travel in more and more luxury, fending off most of the real adventure by application of even more money. As a scruffy backpacker I got lost in the minefields of Mozambique as the war wound down, then hopped a freight as the only option save walking and potentially starving. I rode the tops of old buses all over Asia and Central America, discussing sex, politics and the intricacies of personal finance with bright-eyed young men. I hung with deserters, thieves, forgers and violent offenders when they, unlike the folks with more to lose, invited me in. And I traveled way up-river in any number of places--off the maps, where concepts like streets and highways were hardly more than vague fantasies.

None of that ever happens any more, because I carry cash, plastic cards, and proper papers. I ride well-maintained machines, purchase insurance policies, and I research all up and down the internet. Little goes seriously wrong anymore, and when it does I've generally got an out.

The other key piece here is that I'm getting old, stiff, and fragile. For me, overland motorbiking was a means to continue adventurous traveling without most of the risks and discomfort of my backpacking prime. Riding a bike is first and foremost easy. But with comfort and convenience comes predictability and control. I can more or less know where I'll be from day to day, and I'm far less susceptible to the kinds of life-threatening glitches which used to provide me with the real adventures. It's like carrying a cell phone (or a tracking device or satellite communications), like studying up on the HUBB before leaving home--it sure is convenient, but that doesn't equate to rugged, resilient, or "adventure."

Standard caveat: The above is about me, not you. It may apply more broadly, or not. Mileage varies, sometimes notably.

Mark

Edit to add: I'm not entering the poll, which gives polarized choices--either this or that, but not in between. Life is a dialectical process, not a series of hard, categorical definitions.

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Old thread but very relevant and worth a response.


I read first two pages then skipped to the last one (will go back and read all) and recognised some of you contributors !! Basically it is difficult to tick a box and apply the label but if I had to be honest here I am a full on biker, always have been. I see travelling as one of the aspects of being a biker and also a by product.


I've raced bikes, I've built bikes and now I travel on bikes. Nothing though prepared me for the moment when I discovered that 'wonder lust' feeling and realised that my new obsession in life and one that will now be a permanent fixture was overlanding by two wheels..!!


There is no better feeling in the world than hitting that starter button after de-camping, bike loaded, belly full of breakfast & coffee, brief idea of intended direction and setting off settling into the day ahead aboard a two wheeled automotive device.......
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Old thread but very relevant and worth a response.


I read first two pages then skipped to the last one (will go back and read all) and recognised some of you contributors !! Basically it is difficult to tick a box and apply the label but if I had to be honest here I am a full on biker, always have been. I see travelling as one of the aspects of being a biker and also a by product.


I've raced bikes, I've built bikes and now I travel on bikes. Nothing though prepared me for the moment when I discovered that 'wonder lust' feeling and realised that my new obsession in life and one that will now be a permanent fixture was overlanding by two wheels..!!


There is no better feeling in the world than hitting that starter button after de-camping, bike loaded, belly full of breakfast & coffee, brief idea of intended direction and setting off settling into the day ahead aboard a two wheeled automotive device.......
Ditto..all of it..me too.
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I got my drivers license in June 2016 and we left for a trip around the world in July 2016. Absolutely started as a traveller instead of a biker but by now I see myself as both, my wife is absolutely still more a traveller. Most of our time we spent in Africa while riding so far since November 2016, we are still in Africa so riding all different grounds what makes it very nice for me

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