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Taylor Lawson

An American Yacht Captain living in Sweeden and an all-round T7 Savant.

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Brian Coffin

Brian lives in Fort Lauderdale and currently rides a BMW 1200GS. He has completed the Mid-Atlantic BDR on his Kawasaki KLR 650. Additionally, he and Aaron have completed the Washington BDR on two KLRs. Brian also joined Aaron and me on one of Aaron’s curated, private tours in Colorado in October 2023, where we all rode GSs.

 

He is signed up for the October  2025 ADV Cannonball on his GS. Just last fall, Brian completed the Idaho BDR on his GS. During that ride, Aaron, on his 1250GSA, met up with Brian's group about halfway through the IDBDR. Afterward, Brian and Aaron rode up into Canada for a few days before concluding their trip at the ADV Cannonball headquarters in Port Angeles, WA.



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Claudio von Planta

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Elspeth Beard

Elspeth Beard (born 28 April 1959) is an architect and motorcyclist, noted for being the first Englishwoman to ride a motorcycle around the world. She later redesigned the historic Munstead Tower in Godalming, winning the 1994 Royal Institute of British Architects award for South East England. She now owns an architectural firm based in a converted stable in Godalming.

https://www.elspethbeard.com/

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Jeremy Kroeker

Jeremy Kroeker is a freelance writer, a speaker, and the author of two books, “Motorcycle Therapy” and “Through Dust and Darkness.”

With his motorcycle, he has traveled to nearly 30 countries while managing to do at least one outrageously stupid thing in every one. He has evaded police in Egypt, tasted teargas in Israel, scrambled through minefields in Bosnia and Lebanon, and wrangled a venomous snake in Austria.

One time he got a sliver in El Salvador.

Since 1999, Kroeker has made his home in Canmore, Alberta, although he still travels extensively. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as the Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald, and in American magazines such as Alpinist, and Outrider Journal.


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Mark Richardson

I’ve been a journalist since learning the craft at Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University). I went to work in 1989 at the Ottawa Citizen as a general assignment reporter and feature writer in the newsroom, but left after five years to become an aid worker in Africa. 

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