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NYEMOTO is a full service motorcycle touring company. We offer training, tours, trip planning and transportation services.

We also offer overnight accommodations with meals in our Yurt or your tent on over 90 private acres near the NEBDR in Vermont.

10/29/2026

It's been a spectacular foliage season here in New England, especially as last year was such a bust.

In New England the days get short fast and when the forecast is calling for low 60's for the high temperature and sunny skies there will be a short window for a ride. Short because the day will start in the 30's and won't pass 50 until after lunch. But 2 to 4:00? Glorious.

Heated gear makes it comfortable, and my heated shirt works great with little bulk. Only issue it's now too big. A nice problem to have. I'm hooked on the heated seat too. Good for 280 miles. I just *had* to go get a serial number of the snowblower.

Except for southern New England the vibrant colors are just about gone and there's more color on the ground than in the trees.

Stick season is just around the corner, at any kind of elevation full on.

The only benefit is with the foliage down the sight lines in the woods expand quite nicely.

The screen in the photo is a NOR7e tablet from Thork Racing running DMD2. Its OS is Android. It is fantastic.

10/15/2026

A tourist complaining about tourists.

Fall 2027 I will be leading rides for up to four riders on Thursday and Fridays. Unlike Chromonicablues we will not have to worry about traffic. We'll sample wonderful town-maintained dirt roads and spicer stuff upon request.

Stowe doesn't have all the trees, just the tourists.

09/21/2026

Fall. I love fall in New England. Tennessee too, specifically a visit to the Tellico Overland Adventure Destination.

Mind you I'm a bit biased as TOAD's place is the home of March Moto Madness, an event that's near and dear to my heart.

March Moto Madness draws a big crowd and it's a wicked, wonderful and wild time. The Toad, his partner Becky and I handle the back end of March Moto Madness and a group of dedicated friends volunteer year after year to make it speceial.

A few years ago, Mick decided to have a party disguised as a rally in October. It's small and is what March Moto Madness was 15 years ago; a small organic event where everyone knows everyone. There's an Oktoberfest themed party on Saturday night, some group rides, games if there's demand and some nice entertainment too. I love it because if MMM is hard work, Oktoberfest is a chance to relax with friends, go for a ride or two and enjoy some meals together.

March Moto Madness and Oktober Madness are great events to start or end the riding season. The architects of the SEBDR selected Steer Creek Road (home of TOAD's place) and many of the roads we have used for our rides. The Smokey Mountain 500 is also nearby, Deals Gap is one of our day rides.

Oktoberfest is in three weeks and at today's prices I'm looking at $2,000 in diesel. The silver lining is I don't need the volume of the sprinter or the Casita for Oktoberfest, I can ride my bike and what goes with a small batch organic event better than showing up on two wheels? Nothing!

I also mention this for my New England friends because the ride from there to Tellico Plains can be surprisingly nice. I suck it up for day one and take big roads to Hagerstown, Maryland or anywhere south. Hagerstown is a full day from Boston, from Hartford a full day gets me to Wi******er, Virginia. From there you can take one long day on a mix 81 and small roads or the MABDR if you want dirt. There are some great roads that parallel 81.

I'm going to leave on Monday morning, be in Tellico Wednesday night, after two days or riding twisty pavement including "Da Gap, ride to the Pink Pig in Cherrly Log GA for bbq on Thursday rally Friday, Saturday and Sunday before ambling north Monday.

I've been doing this a long time and this is as close as I've ever seen at the perfect spot for a rally. I love extending my riding season in Tellico Plains.

08/24/2026

Home from a great week at the Dirt Daze Rally in North Haverhill, New Hampshire.

Dirt Daze is the most popular Adv / Dual sport rally in New England and is a great time. It's also one of the few events with guided rides with a stop for lunch included.

Dirt Daze offers a lot of guided rides covering all skill sets. I heard that over the course of the event close to 800 guests would participate in one of the rides.

I rode a ride called the Big Adventure, by Andrew Phillips. It's one of the longer rides and has some sections rated at 3.5 with 4+ being the hardest offered. The scale of challenge is 1-5. Over the three days we had just over 60 new friends join us for a romp in the woods. It's a great ride; AP is an absolute top shelf route master.

Dirt Daze is a very well-run event. They understand that with 230 or more bikes joining guided rides every day there's a chance one or two might need help getting back to camp for anything from a flat tire to an unfortunate event. We use what three words and text to initiate a rescue.

Below is a photo of Joe, aka Mr. Rescue, the savior and whatever other superlatives we might come up with. I had the distinct honor of meeting him twice in one day. The first was when a clutch was smoked. I had a lovey walk with the rider as we rolled our bikes out of the deep woods and a mini coaching session on how to ride a bike downhill in the woods without engine braking.

The second was not fun, a rider overreacted to an oncoming truck on a gravel road and crashed pretty hard. I was thankful for my recent course in Wilderness First Aid and have some thoughts on what I can do better next time, before, during and after. The rider called me that evening to report he had a broken scapula, ribs, concussion and a chest tube. He said he's being discharged the next day, so I knew they were doing a good job managing his pain.

We changed up the rider's meeting a bit for Saturday, and it was our best day, also because we eliminated the one challenge that gave the riders the most issues.

Here's to the management of Dirt Daze who goes the extra mile for their riders and to Joe for being that extra mile.

07/14/2026

Confidence.

Confidence comes with experience. Good coaching and practice can help keep the experiences positive.

A three hour class at a rally as one of 14 students is not effective. If each student gets 60 seconds of attention (which includes riding the section) with each student getting three passes each "lesson" will take at least 21 minutes. Add in the "chalk talk" or a challenged student and it's easily 30 minutes, of which you get 3 on the bike and 27 waiting your next turn.

If you're serious about getting confident riding your adventure motorcycle off pavement let's spend a day together. On a per hour basis, it's not a whole lot more expensive than the group lessons. We will focus on the differences between riding pavement and dirt by improving the skills you already have.

06/16/2026

Hit a long ball at the BMW MOA Rally for MAX BMW Motorcycles.

Working with Doug Morrison and Ben Stratton we pulled off the most effective Guerella Marketing Campaign ever seen at the BMW Motorcycle Owners of America Rally.

Served approximately 150 free meals, 400 ice cold bottles of water and over 800 T-shirts. Our ride center became the number one destination on the free shuttles.

Green Shirt Friday was a big hit.

05/31/2026

I love to rally. I attended my first "national" in 1998. I was tapped to help with signs and was told I should bring a ladder. To a motorcycle rally.

Ladder meant bike on a trailer. Translated this meant bike on trailer, towed by suburban loaded to the gills with stuff I thought would make a week on the ground more comfortable. I also had the approach that if anyone is going to bring 4 wheels to a 2 wheel party they best be prepared to utilize the 4 to serve the 2.

I made some great friends at that rally, one of whom is my "partner in crime" for the upcoming BMW MOA National Rally in two weeks. We're putting together rides for the rally along with another route master.

Over the years I've perfected what I call the "rally in a box." It's all I need to throw a great time and to coordinate an activity for the rally as a volunteer. This time we're setting up a "ride center" which be a place to riders to have a morning coffee, get updated info and perhaps find new friends to ride with . Come happy hour it will go from Ride Center to the Sled Dog Touring Team Hospitality Center.
We'll be off by ourselves in the NE corner of the fairgrounds, yet we fully expect someone claiming authority to tell us to behave. 😉
In the box.

2 Motorcycles
2 10x20 pop up tents
1 Treager pellet smoker
1 Blackstone Griddle
1 Massive rolling beverage cooler
2 Coolers
1 compressor
1 powerwasher
8 Tubs of stuff
Lawn Games
Folding Couch / Kermit chairs.

05/30/2026

Digging through the archives on a cold rainy Saturday.

23 years ago it took a one page application and a check for 223 bucks to insure a rally for 350 riders.

05/23/2026

Bacon this good calls for cast iron.
At medium heat.

05/21/2026

There was a time when my creative juices around a motorcycle build focused on competing in endurance rallies.

Times have changed and now it's all about dual sport and adventure bikes.

BMW introduced a very appealing throwback with one of their best powertrains of the last 15 years, save for the gearing.

Working with Max of MAX BMW Motorcycles we went to work. First up was the gearing issue which is enough of a complaint that I'm the second owner of this bike, I got it with 163 miles on it because the original owner knew it would not work for him.

I bought it because I saw a photo of the same model competing in the Red Bull Romanics which is a very tough event and the bike has a final drive that did not match the rest of the bike.

A bit of research and some Max magic and the gearing issue has been resolved.

Next up were wheels, the stock wheels are the proper 18/21 set up but a narrower profile is better on Vermont's class IV roads. While I miss Woody like we all do, since I've known Woody, his son Chris is the one that kept the lights on. One call to Woodys Wheel Works for more magic and goodness gracious what bling is this?

Navigation is DMD running on their Nor7e ruggedized Android tablet.

Address

801 Steer Creek Rd
Tellico Plains, TN
37385

Website

http://www.nyemoto.com/

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