Dr. Frazier Learns New Tricks Photo Gallery

Load your adventure touring motorcycle for a ‘round the world tour like this one from Singapore and you will significantly change how it turns, slows and goes.

Walking the course first showed the class where the proper turns, starts and stops should be before trying to pilot the motorcycle through the same sections.

This BMW HP2 adventure motorcycle showed there was plenty of ground clearance for the rough stuff, but the owner opted to stick to the pavement by changing wheels and tires.

This BMW GS model is well known for adventure touring, but prefers pavement over off-pavement.

A KTM “adventure” motorcycle can serve as well as a sport model.

This BMW GS rider demonstrates “looking through the curve,” a technique used to make turning safer and easier.

When you add weight to the motorcycle, whether with a pillion or luggage, you significantly change how the motorcycle performs and how you must handle it.

Do not tell this motorcyclist a heavy weight touring motorcycle cannot also be a sport tourer or ‘round the world adventure machine.

A US Marine readies himself for combat street riding by taking the Total Control course.

Concentration, concentration, and more concentration is how the motorcyclists learned to manage the road ahead and around them, so that they can control as much as possible.

Luggage, tires, and training are elements that can make adventure motorcycling the unique niche that is pursued in dreams or reality, here on a 1,000 cc BMW that my “little KLR 650” kept up with.

Where there are no roads suspension, steering and traction are significant factors is being in control of the motorcycle.

Low speed turns with a loaded motorcycle, on or off road, require concentration and smooth throttle control.

400 US Marines have taken the Total Control training course, securing the “right stuff.”