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Dualsporter’s Support Beats a Belt and Suspenders
"Never fear extra dualsporter's support is here!"
It’s amazing how one commonality of straddling a motorcycle can corral such a big group of the kindest, most supportive and adventuresome people I know. Look at any ride report on ADV rider website and you’ll find that the response to any rider in trouble is astronomical. There are many heroic riders out there who would ride for hours over many miles to save a fellow dual sport or adventure rider from a tough situation in the boonies. Yes, it is a tightly knit bunch, to say the least. So, what is it that binds us together like Threadlocker?
Love of life.
It’s that intoxicating thirst for adventure that gets us out there buying the bike in the first place, but, it’s that love of life that keeps us out there riding, experiencing, and living it time and time again. Witnessing someone else in the process of loving life on an adventure ride is especially inspirational. Just look at any one of the highly viewed ride reports on the ADV rider website like “The Oasis of my Soul, 4th Year on The Road” by Ara Gureghian, or Beemerchef as we all know him, with 155,387 views. The reason Ara has such a large following is because he writes from the heart in a colorful, engaging and deeply humanistic way. You can’t help but walk away from his ride report and blog touched with a new perspective on life or deeply moved by his photography. Ara easily demonstrates a love of life through his continuous adventure ride with his 4-legged cohort, Spirit, in his sidecar that is now into its 4th year of communing with Mother Nature. Many of us stand up and cheer when we witness an adventurer of life like Ara, especially when he is one of our own. These larger than life adventure riding stories can transport any of us from the daily grind and seduce us into living the adventure vicariously.
Personally, I don’t find it coincidental that my adventure riding started the same year I experienced a huge shift in personal growth. My yearning for independence, exploration and one-ness with nature shook hands with the wide-eyed idea of adventure riding and there was no looking back. Plus, my kids were finally old enough to understand that mommy “needed” to go on these trips for so many reasons. With each solo ride, I experience an enormous feeling of “coming home” once I cathartically expel my experience into a ride report on ADV Rider and am supported by the many riders that have welcomed me back. Some of that glorious support has grown into some magical friendships that make me realize that no matter the obstacle in front of me I am not alone in having to overcome it.
We are a unique group that is woven tightly together by its strong brotherhood and lust for life. With this sense of belonging, we can tackle any hardship and know that in the bigger picture it isn’t this small obstacle that matters, but rather the feeling of belonging to a larger family that has your back.