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20/10/2019

Riding the Beta RR 300 2020

It’s that time of the year again. Bikes have to go and new ones to come in the store. What a mess. The paper work, licenses, transportation arrangements and logistics, protection installation ( more details in another article) and above all, breaking in the engines…
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03/10/2019

What a wonderful group of riders

It’s September the 20th, it’s in the peak of our season and we are expecting a group of 10 riders from Israel, a place we lately have most of our riders from. We are worried due to our physical status, usually the guys from those…
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18/09/2019

Your Knees are the ride

I have performed three major and four or five minor operations on both my knees, with the most important of them to be the Posterior and Anterior cruciate ligament tear, meniscus rapture and bottom plateau split in half back in 2006. Since then the protection…
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05/09/2019

Winning the Riv3r 2019

22/1/2019: Are we going to Riv3r Andreas? No I am tired. 18/2/2019: Are we going to Riv3r Andreas? No I have things to do. 15/3/2019: Are we going to Riv3r Andreas? Are you crazy? We will be busy. 10/4/2019: Are we going to Riv3r Andreas?…
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05/09/2019

Enduro in Mexico The Movie Vol 1

Last April, I found my self among brothers in the other side of “my planet” away from anything familiar I knew like home, riding wise and in lifestyle. Being invited by a legend, the king of Tecate Enduro him self Mr Grant Palenske, whom I…
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10/05/2018

Romaniacs, a race, a habit, an addiction

Andreas is usually announcing his will to participate to Romaniacs, in the most out of the question moments. He gets triggered by videos and clips of others or some words when we talk about the yearly plans. In 2017, the spark the lighted the fire…
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02/06/2019

Testing the Beta RR 200 M.Y. 2019

Big engines right? Massive bikes that with a slight twist of the throttle your muscles detach from your bones and your joints extend like the rubber man… Not any more. The 2stroke technology being under the research and development of Betamotors  just delivered a 200…
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10/08/2019

Working on new trails

I guess you can call us active. A new area, a new trail, a new video or a photo session is always in our weekly schedule. Our job lately became a bit more demanding. Marketing strategies became complicated issues to discuss and create, while the…
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25/05/2019

November Ride

234 riders later, I found some time to write a couple or more blog articles, to share some thoughts I had while riding and guiding wonderful people. Most of the riders when they contact us by mail or phone insist on asking to book for the…
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10/07/2019

Greece Blue Skies Sea Mountains

How can I describe beauty in words? Sometimes, I witness the most breathtaking images in our rides and I am searching of the right words to describe them. Most of the case can’t find any, trust me I am not poor in words, its the magnificence of the image…
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