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After putting 46K on the CTX in the past 3 years, I'm riding off into the sunset on my new BMW R1200RT. I enjoyed the CTX a lot and my wife and I have our memory banks filled with the good times we had while touring together on it. But, while the Honda did well in the mountains that we ride...

Not that I really need one.... My wife and I were sitting on a swing outside of our room at the B&B in Virginia City Nevada looking out at the interesting weather forming over Six Mile Canyon. The setting sun was at our back and as it dropped below the mountains behind us it illuminated only...

The good stuff...you know it's out there and you know that people aren't telling you about it because they want to keep their best motorcycling routes traffic free and pristine. Well, the one I'm about to share with you is the best of the best and because there's just about nobody out there, I...

To begin, I apologize to all of you still dealing with snow, ice and road salt this early February. But, here out west we've had high temps in the low to mid 70's for over a week. The sun is shinin' the birds are singin' and my bike got out of the shop with the valves adjusted, new brake pads...

If you are thinking of buying a Bestem 929 T-Box, you may want to act quickly. They are no longer on the Bestem website and when I emailed them, they replied that the 929 was discontinued and that there was no replacement in the pipeline. There are a few on Amazon, a few more on Ebay....

The first thing I did to accessorize my CTX was to add luggage. I knew that I wanted to hit the road with this thing and sidecases and a top box were a must. I finished buying and installing the cases, hooked up the brake lights to the top box and promptly realized that I had dressed her all...

I just spent a month in Italy away from my CTX. Don't get me wrong...I love Italy...my wife and I lived there for many years, we have a home in the Italian Alps and I love almost everything about spending time there. But....(there's always a "but" isn't there?) I haven't worked up to...

When I was more "able", I used to travel across the wilderness in a variety of ways. None of them had motors. They had boots, snowshoes and skis. Often they had ropes, ice hammers, crampons and ice axes. Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe used to be one of my favorites to ski across in...

My CTX is a 2014 and has the original OEM battery in it still. No problems with it at all. But, being aware that it's three years old (at least) and not wanting to get stuck out on some rural road I'm wondering when I should replace it proactively. Anyone with experience in having a battery...

The Markleeville Death Ride is a legend in bicycling. Each year 1,500 cyclists ride 129 miles over 5 steep Sierra Nevada mountain passes and climb a total of 15,000 ft. in elevation gain. At the center of the Death Ride universe sits the small burg of Markleeville. The Death Ride, or as the...

I'll be honest. I didn't do this tour on my CTX. There...that's done. I meant to do it on my bike, and I really wanted to. But that high pressure area that parked over Northern California for 9 days and brought temps in the 111 degree range was too much for Mister Olderandwiser. And, there...

I'm looking for a (much) louder horn for my CTX. Have any of you replaced yours? Ideally, this would be plug and play without the need for wiring a relay and something that would fit where the existing horn is now. Any ideas?

I'm pretty much finished with the mods for my CTX. Floorboards front and rear, Corbin seat, center stand, Mutazu sidebags, Bestem top box...all of those and a few other odds and ends have been checked off. Nothing to do now 'cept get out and ride...maybe do a short tour to get out of the heat...

Now that it's warming up in the Sacramento Valley, (100 degrees today) I'm encouraged to ride my CTX700 into our nearby Sierra Nevada mountains. Last week it was a one day trip around the west shore of Lake Tahoe...this week something a bit different. From my home 30 miles east of Sacramento...

I fired up the CTX this morning and put the prettiest girl I know, my wife on the bike and off we went into the high mountains for the first time this year. California, drought stricken as can be for the past several years has had an abundance of rain and snow this past winter. We hold the...

I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills just outside of Sacramento. In my part of the state, we change to summer formula gas (whatever the heck that is) at this time of the year. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I noticed that my bike was running a little better and that my gas mileage had...

I have the Kuryakyn floorboards on the front of my CTX, but would now like to replace the passenger pegs with boards for my wife. I'm looking at the Kuryakyn 8818 adapters and the Kuryakyn 4393 premium boards to match the ones with chrome up front. Unlike my front boards that have built in...