Bike Brotherhood

Waiting at the ferry crossing today across the Straits of Magellan to Tierra del Fuego everyone wanted to chat about the bikes and where we were going. One truck driver in particular asked us about our ages and joked that this trip was a big effort for guys our age.

We shook hands and introduced ourselves. So I had a chance to meet Daniel who was driving the big white Scania. I asked him his age and he said 54 and I told him that the three guys he was talking to were 6, 10, and 13 years older and still having a blast riding the length of the continent on big adventure bikes.

He then produced a couple of faded pictures from an photo album in the cab that showed him 36 years ago riding a custom Yamaha 400 2-stroke that he claimed he used to wheelie a 100 yards at a time.

Apparently his biking days are over but he had a huge glint in his eye when he had a chance to relive those days with others who truly understood his exhilaration.