Popular travel blogging family prefers Avon Tyres
Aad Schram and his wife Jeanette have fitted the Avon Distanzia to their Triumph Bonnevilles, while their son Mike has the same tyre on his Yamaha XT660R
A motorcycling blogger and his family have fitted the Avon Distanzia to their two Triumph Bonnevilles and single-cylinder Yamaha XT660R for their holiday circumnavigating the globe. Aad Schram, his wife Jeannette and son Mike are currently in South America, and are uploading dispatches from their adventures, which began in 2012, to popular website earth-roamers.blogspot.com.
Aad Schram – a traveller of some experience – says the choice of the Avon Distanzias reflected the good experience he has had with the brand since first fitting the tyres to his 1971 Triumph T120: “Every bike that I fitted with Avons became a better handing one, including the 2009 T100 Bonneville I have now. In my view, spending a bit more for good tyres is more important than spending a lot more for a better helmet. The grip of the tyres makes the difference between staying up or going down and good brakes are useless with low grip tyres. On warm sunny days a lot of tyres perform well, but Avons allow me to ride in wet weather and through the winter knowing I can rely on them. When this trip came up I wanted something more than a road tyre.”
Schram said that his concerns about “fitting Dual Sport tyres to our Bonnevilles” – a road bike – had been allayed. “The Distanzias have proven to be the best wet weather tyres we have ever had.”
The trio left for New Zealand in November 2012, stayed there for four months before shipping the bikes to Vancouver and riding up to Alaska. Since then, they’ve been up the Dalton Highway (the Ice Truckers road made famous in the TV series of that name) to Deadhorse, crossed the Arctic Circle, went into the Brooks Range and the Top of the World Highway to Dawson city, before turning south again. Via Jasper and Banff, the trio entered the USA again and visited as many of the national parks as they could. They then entered Mexico and rode through the Baja. They have just celebrated the arrival of 2014 in Lo de Marcos, a small Mexican town on the Pacific Coast.
“Unbelievably [the tyres] not only grip well but also last long,” says Aad. “This is not a combination I expected. Both Bonnevilles have about 14,000km on the rear and plenty of tread life left! The Yamaha, being a single, is a bit harder on tyres but still gets 16,000km out of a rear!”
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