January 19 - 22, 2012
TRADEX EXHIBITION CENTRE • ABBOTSFORD
CANADA’S PREMIER MOTORCYCLE SHOW
Motorcycle Touring Seminars
Motorcycle Touring Seminars
Come to hear about amazing tours you can take, locally and across the planet. Learn what is required for touring in exotic locations and meet people that lead these tours during our World Travels Seminars.
Adrienne Denham
Meet Adrienne Denham - hear about her solo tour of South America!
Adrienne Denham just recently completed a 33,000km, solo and unsupported, motorcycle adventure through South America, on her Suzuki DR 650 (named Dirk). The trip took seven months and Adrienne traveled off-road through rivers, jungles, along the world's most dangerous road and experienced bike-stopping mechanical difficulties in the world's largest salt flat (where she had to push her bike to safety!).
About 600 people followed her trip on Facebook, including the Greater Vancouver Motorcycle Ryders Club. Since returning home she has been featured as a speaker at the Greater Vancouver Motorcycle Club and Horizon's Unlimited Western Canada meeting, and her story will be included in an upcoming Road Heros video.
Adrienne brings to the stage humour, humility, and a real sense of adventure; she enjoys sharing her story because she feels it was amazing in every way - and sharing it helps her hold on to the excitement. It's a story of hardcore motorcycle riding, finding out what it's like to ride alone, being strong, and of wonderful roads in South America.
Adrienne will be presenting her story in our Travel Seminars and also the She Rides Nite Seminars.
About 600 people followed her trip on Facebook, including the Greater Vancouver Motorcycle Ryders Club. Since returning home she has been featured as a speaker at the Greater Vancouver Motorcycle Club and Horizon's Unlimited Western Canada meeting, and her story will be included in an upcoming Road Heros video.
Adrienne brings to the stage humour, humility, and a real sense of adventure; she enjoys sharing her story because she feels it was amazing in every way - and sharing it helps her hold on to the excitement. It's a story of hardcore motorcycle riding, finding out what it's like to ride alone, being strong, and of wonderful roads in South America.
Adrienne will be presenting her story in our Travel Seminars and also the She Rides Nite Seminars.
Rene Cormier
Meet Rene Cormier- Canada's King of long distance riding!
Join the ultimate riding adventure as Canadian BMW Rider Rene Cormier shares how he politely removes himself from the working world and cashes in what few possessions he has to finance a $25 a day, three-year-long motorcycle trek around the world. Never one to let excessive planning get in the way of a good ride, Rene runs out of cash half way through the tour and ultimately takes almost five years to cover his 41-country, 154,000-kilometre (95,000 mile) odyssey through North, Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Russia and Mongolia before heading home. The best pictures and stories from the trip made their way into "The University of Gravel Roads: Global Lessons from a Four-Year Motorcycle Adventure", a full colour, illustrated travelogue that won the Bronze Medal in the Travel Essay category of the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Join Rene as he explains how he pulls off the ride of a lifetime, doing it the old-fashioned way; no sponsors, no support vehicles, no riding partner and no idea about the experiences, adventures, or mishaps, he’s going to run into along the way. Rene will also be available in his booth # 415 opposite KTM.
John Gilbank
Riders of the Sierra Madre
Meet John Gilbank and discover riding in Mexico!
Meet John Gilbank and discover riding in Mexico!
Dreaming of a two-wheeled Mexican riding adventure? Then meet John Gilbank, one of those guys who is always on the lookout for an adventure into the unknown. Before he "retired" to Mexico to launch his motorcycle touring business, he was Chairman & CEO of a company traded on major Canadian and US stock exchanges.
What really got him interested in travel and international living was an early stint in the Canadian Foreign Service. As Consul and Trade Commissioner to the Western US, John was cross-posted to South America when he visited Mexico to learn a little Spanish. That was 30 years ago and as John now confesses; his Spanish lessons soon took second priority to a young nurse from Toronto. They have been together ever since. When the kids were raised and out of the nest (both of them are excellent motorcyclists), John and his wife Lynn returned to Mexico to live their dream. "Lynn has always been better at Spanish than me and she just loves to live in Mexico," he says. "It's really handy to have her there to help out as we tour all over the country, often far off the beaten path of the established tourist destinations." Check out John’s session to discover why Mexico offers some of the most beautiful riding in the world. John will also be available in the Riders of the Sierra Madre booth #622 opposite BMW.
What really got him interested in travel and international living was an early stint in the Canadian Foreign Service. As Consul and Trade Commissioner to the Western US, John was cross-posted to South America when he visited Mexico to learn a little Spanish. That was 30 years ago and as John now confesses; his Spanish lessons soon took second priority to a young nurse from Toronto. They have been together ever since. When the kids were raised and out of the nest (both of them are excellent motorcyclists), John and his wife Lynn returned to Mexico to live their dream. "Lynn has always been better at Spanish than me and she just loves to live in Mexico," he says. "It's really handy to have her there to help out as we tour all over the country, often far off the beaten path of the established tourist destinations." Check out John’s session to discover why Mexico offers some of the most beautiful riding in the world. John will also be available in the Riders of the Sierra Madre booth #622 opposite BMW.
Motorcycle Touring Seminars
Join our travel seminars and meet world traveler and writer Rene Cormier who set out on a three year round the world tour and completed it five years later, John Gilbank corporate CEO who chucked it all to lead tours in Mexico and Adrienne Denham who just completed a solo, totally unsupported trip off-road through the jungles and rivers of South America aboard Dirk, her DR 650. Hear about their adventures and learn how you too, can tour, either around the world or a little closer to home.
