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That’s 6.365,3 miles if you’re from the USA.

I finally passed the magic 10.000 KM mark this weekend while doing a 700KM drive to Oslo and back home. Wohoo!

To Illustrate how far 10.000KM really is, here’s a drawing I stole from an article about birds…

Nice to see things in perspective… :)

That’s right, it’s as far as from Alaska to New Zealand! So what’s the status of the bike? Still no breakdowns, nothing to worry about mechanically whatsoever  (except for the battery going flat over winter, but that was entirely my own fault as I “forgot” to hook it up to a charger).

My Kawasaki is still going strong! …and I’m looking forward to the next 10.000KM and the next and the next and so forth… :)

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Image borrowed from 7News.com

7News.com reports the following:

DENVER — A Larimer County man said some hungry bears took a $3,000 bite out of his motorcycle Tuesday night.

Glenn Wells told 7NEWS he took his wife out for pizza and put the leftovers in a storage compartment on the back of his Harley Davidson.

The couple returned home and brought the pepperoni pizza inside. A few hours later they heard a noise and went outside to investigate.

Wells said a full size bear and two cubs were trying to get inside the storage compartment — apparently following the smell of the pizza.

“The bears pulled my bike over on the right side and literally tore the tour pack off trying to get at the pizza smell,” Wells said.

He said he knows how important it is not to leave food outside, but said he was surprised that a bear would still be able to smell the pizza scent three hours after taking it out of the compartment.

It’s been a while since I lasted posted anything so I hope this compensates a little bit :)

Check out the complete gallery here:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/slideshow/news/20423358/detail.html

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In many cities in Norway we celebrate motorcycles by arranging “Day of the motorcycle”-events. It’s an annual event and different cities have different dates and many motorcyclists will attend several during Spring. People bring their motorcycles and get together for a chat, a coffee and a waffle :)

Like in England, Norway also has a union fighting for motorcyclists’ interests, they usually show up on these events and tell everyone to join and lets everyone know their agenda for the year.

Buuuuut, the real fun is watching all the supercool bikes! It’s always great to see people who have the same bike as you or the bike that you wish you had! Someone will always show up with a beautiful vintage bike or the biggest trike you ever put your eyes on. After you’ve been drooling on all the bikes for a few hours, watched the anti-drag race (to see who can ride a particular stretch as slowly as possible…) everybody ride together to a cafè or something similar. It’s all good fun!

I brought my friend Atle to this event, we didn’t bring our bikes but I’ll definitely bring it next year! Especially since the VN900 wasn’t represented this year – someone’s gotta put in the effort! ;)

 
Vintage Harley Davidson (left), The same Harley with an old Tempo (right)

 
A beautiful Classic Triumph (left), A custom bike that sticks out from the rest (right)

 
A trike with room for a beer fridge, handy! (left), “Motorsykkelens dag” in Kristiansand (right)

 
A shiny VN800 Classic (left), A perfect example of a tire that needs to be changed (right)

 
Same bikes, different styling (left), Mr. and Mrs. on their Harleys? Nice bikes!

 
Anti-drag-race (left), Time to grab some more more coffee and waffles in the closest city (right)

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