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Photo by Andy Miller, UK, Taking a rest, Jokulsarlon, Iceland

I haven't been everywhere...
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Photo by Andy Miller, UK,
Taking a rest,
Jokulsarlon, Iceland



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I had no idea there was an off road scene at all.
Sounds good!

Tyda guy's (Eric) rally?
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I would love to see Iran. I've heard great things about it. I ride with two Iranian Xpats (Roozbeh and Toomi) and used to work with a sound man in L.A. from Iran. I had no idea there was an off road scene at all.
Well, just to clarify. I am on the southern side of the Persian Gulf in the UAE where there are a lot of off-roaders. The only off-roaders I saw in Iran were goats.

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Thumbs up To screen or not to screen..

I ride a very cushy BMW K1200LT, it may have the plastic personality of a Hoover vacuum cleaner but it has one of the best windshields I've ever had the pleasure of riding behind, it's curved and sheds the air-rain-sleet-snow just beautifully. When I bought the Teutonic Tin I thought - electric windshield?? What pissy-pants would want that option? Turns out to be one of the best features of the bike. The neat part of the story is that I probably owe my life to that screen after taking a very well fed seagull smack dab in the centre of the screen at 145K. It was really quite a sickening thud that left the bird shattered. The point of the story is that if the screen wasn't there the seagull would have hit me high in the centre of my chest. I was in the middle of the prairries and if I was lucky I probably would found out what central Canadian trauma centres were all about. Now I can't speak with any authority about hot weather riding, in Canada 'hot' is somewhere around 25-30C so I do appreciate your dilema, but hot or cold, I'd still opt for something between me and all nasty things airborne...
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Hi Brad
I ride a VFR which has a flip up screen, but when I put it up all the wind is directed at my head, which is very turbulent and noisy, so I keep it down. I think this is mostly because it is designed to look good rather than work! I guess it depends on your height and the riding position.
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