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Ride Day 7: El Paso, Texas to Tombstone to Tucson, Arizona by Motorbike

Ride Day 7: El Paso, Texas to Tombstone to Tucson, Arizona

Ride Day 7: El Paso, Texas to Tombstone to Tucson, Arizona

After spending two nights in El Paso, Texas, I decided to head to Tucson, Arizona and take a short detour into Tombstone, Arizona. Rever crashed, so part of the trip is missing from the Rever Map.

The scenery was starting to get a lot more interesting, with more options to get off highways and onto some of the older, but still well-maintained roads, which allows for more sweeping turns. After about a week of roads and straights, it was a nice change.

This particular riding day to Tucson, Arizona, took around 7 hours, so it wasn’t so bad, and with more scenery entering in my vision, was even quite pleasant.

Tombstone, for all its fame, was a bit of mess, very commercial, but nevertheless, the cemetery was pretty cool.

The trip took me from El Paso, Texas, Arena, Colombus, Hachita, Lordsburg, San Simon, Bowie, Benson, Vail, Littletown, Tombstone and onto my destination in Tucson, Arizona.

My KTM 1290 Super Adventure was trekking well, and I was getting around 480 kilometers (300 miles) per tank.

Today’s ride was 370+ miles (600 kilometers) but still took me around 7 hours as I went along the border at first then headed inland before trekking south to Tombstone and then back up to Tucson, where I would spend only one night.

Everyday Riding

Here is a list of my everyday riding gear from my motorbike to my everyday riding apparel from helmets to jackets, to pants and boots and the cameras and apps I use. I do not recommend all. However, I will be doing a post trip review on all of them.
Motorcycle Tires

I chose the Heidenau Dual Sport K60 Scout Motorcycle Tires

Navigation

For my Navigation I used both Google Maps and Garmin 590L

Motorcycle Map Tracking

For my Motorcycle Map Tracking I used the pro version of the Rever App

Waterproof Bags

For my Dry Bags I chose the SubTech Sports 45L Dry Bag

Motorcycle Gloves

For my Gloves, I chose for warm weather Klim Dakar and for Water/Bombproof the Held Air N Dry Gloves

Motorcycle Boots

For my Waterproof Motorcycle Boots I chose the Daytona Road Star GTX Boots

Clothing & Protection

For Clothing & Protection, I chose the Klim Overland Pants & Jacket

Mounting Systems

For mounting my phone and cameras to bike I chose the Ram Mounts Systems

Helmet Comms

For my Helmet Communication (Music, Nav, Phone) I chose the UClear AMP Pro

Scenic Camera

For Scenic shots I had the tripod ready GoPro Hero4 Black

360 Degree Camera

The 360 Degree Camera was the Samsung Gear 360 Camera

Helmet Camera

The Helmet Camera I chose for this trip was the Drift Ghost-S

Helmet

My chosen Helmet fro this trip was the Schuberth E1 Hunter Helmet

BackPack

My backpack and one of my favorite gear was the Klim Krew Pack

Motorbike Protection

For Motorbike Protection I chose the Rumbux Bars from South Africa

Motorbike

My Moto on this trip was the big bold and beautiful KTM 1290 Super Adventure 

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