Klim Adventure Rally suit takes on the Road of Bones – and WINS!

Several years ago Dave and Chris met Walter Colebatch on a dirt bike orienteering event in the Pyrenees, after an epic battle of wits in the mountains they became firm friends and have kept in close contact.

Walter spent a couple of days at Adventure-Spec HQ earlier in the year, hunting for suitable gear for the follow up to his epic Sibirsky Extreme expedition of 2009. Walter will be using the Klim Adventure Rally suit, Klim Inversion gloves, Giantloop Fandango tankbag, Double Take Mirrors and Barkbusters VPS handguards on his heavily modified BMW G650 XChallenge.

Walter’s  expedition project for 2010 was to return to the fabled Road of Bones, made famous largely by the Long Way Around expeditions’ use of Kamaz trucks to negotiate its numerous river crossings. Walter and his companion for this expedition, Sherri-Jo Wilkins had other plans…

This has certainly been no easy trip, with them getting caught up in the horrendous forest fires that brought Russia to a standstill over the last month. The roads were blocked for extended sections by huge fallen trees. At times these were unpassable, so alternate routes through the surrounding woodland had to be ‘created’. You can see the depth of ash in the woods!

You can follow the entire epic trip and check out some beautiful photography over at Walter’s site, SibirskyExtreme.com.

Another Cover for Klim…

The August edition cover of TBM shows editor James Barnicoat riding a full Klim ’suit’ whilst testing Husky’s new range of bikes.

Not content with a pair of Dakar pants and a yellow Revolt jersey James’ long term Klim F4 Helmet was also present and reviewed inside the magazine after a year of extensive testing. As expected his comments were superb confirming another great Klim product that is most certainly Adventure Spec!

In addition to Klim’s clothing range TBM also spent an evening watching the new Salt and Gold film telling the story of Adventure Spec Riders struggling against 5000km of desert/trigger happy rebels/broken bones to reach the fables salt mines of Taoudenni deep in Mauritanian/Malian Sahara.

Filmed by Austin Vince of Mondo Enduro fame the reviews of the DVD were also impressive!

All in all a great month!

CE Klim F4 Helmets now available for Pre-Order.

Klims most exciting release for the 2011 season, the F4 helmet, is now due on UK shores on 20th September 2010. We are now taking pre-orders and are anticipating BIG things from this radical lid.

Tested for over a year by TBM’s editor James Barnicoat the review posted in this months edition confirmed our own feeling regarding this Helmet.

‘After almost 12 months of testing I’ve found that the Klim F4 lid peforms like no other helmet…’

‘I reckon the Klim F4 is one of, if not THE best specced dirtbike helmet available today, and at £299.95 representes fantastic value, and versatility for money’.

Check HERE for details to place your order. For sizing information see HERE.

The 2010 Tenth Anniversary Of Horizons Unlimited

…was the worlds largest motorcycle travellers meeting, we were there and we had a great time!

It was a busy year with both the shop to look after and three presentations to prepare,  not to mention literally hundreds of friends to catch up with. Not much sleep was had!

By the end of day three two of the Adventure-Spec presentations,  ‘Overweight is Underprepared’, were over and many travellers moved to the overspill room and continued their discussions about lightweight travel tips/techniques/kit but eventually ran out of time. Any extra information that was promised at the time can be found here (apologies for the delay!).

It was great to meet so many old friends, especially those who had returned from trips to tell us superb stories and give us such amazing feedback on our products. Although we use all the gear we sell, its always you guys who ultimately let us know if we’re doing it right or not!

At 10pm on Saturday night Dave Lomax was filmed in the main presenting room telling the first full unabridged version of the Salt and Gold 2009 trip.  Some you might have seen the Salt and Gold DVD but the extra pictures and film clips had the capacity audience gazing in wonder at the beauty of the empty western quarter of the Sahara Desert.

In short it was a great weekend.  Special thanks to Danny at the roadkill cookout for again keeping us supplied with smoked dead things to consume and regular ’special treats’!

Home for the weekend was the Adventure-Spec mobile shop showing the full range of Motion Pro Tools, Gi-T Hardware and Klim products including the new Rally/Adventure Suit.

Many old friends dropped in including Andrew Neri with his 2010 Dakar bike (Andrew chose Klim clothing to ride in as well as lightweight Motion Pro tools for his Dakar 2010 bid).

And Walter Colebatch on his trusty BMW X-Challenge fresh from another crazy foray into the far north of Siberia. We were delighted when Walter told us how happy he was with his new Adventure/Rally suit!

Adventure-Spec at Horizons Unlimited Travellers Meeting…

Adventure-Spec will be attending the Horizons Unlimited Travellers Meeting at Lumb Farm, Ripley, Derbyshire from this Thursday 24th June – Sun 27th.

Visit the tent to check out a full range of Adventure-Spec products from  Klim, Giantloop, Guard-it Technology, Vision X, ADV tank, Aqualine Safari, GPR, Motion Pro, Barkbusters, RAM Mounts and Double Take Mirror.

Dave Lomax, one of Horizons Unlimited’s most prolific presenters, will be delivering 3 shows over the weekend…

Thursday 24th June at 9pm in the Main Room – Overweight is Underprepared! If you thought you travelled light, think again! Distinguishing between things you ‘need’ and things you ‘want’ with you on your motorcycle adventures. Dave’s presentation from 2008 is featured in its own section of the new Horizons Unlimited DVD  ‘Gear Up!‘ , a part of the ‘Achievable Dream‘ series (see trailer below).

Saturday 26th June at 10am in the Main Room – Overweight is Underprepared!

Saturday 26th June at 9pm in the Main Room – ‘Salt and Gold’ Timbuktu and beyond the hard way, The tale of an attempt to reach the Salt Mines of Taoudenni following ancient camel routes across 3000km of virgin desert. Includes previously unseen film sequences of the recent ‘Salt and Gold film‘ filmed by Austin Vince.

registration for the event is now full but if you’re one of the 600+ registered visitors we look forward to seeing you there!

Adventure-Spec will be CLOSED from Wednesday 23rd June, re-opening on Monday 28th June. Last orders go out wednesday 23rd at 1pm…

(achievable dream series trailer)