Epic reasons why you should get an Adventure Bike

Date posted on March 4, 2019

Adventure bikes or ADV bikes might be heavy and expensive but they are among the most capable bikes, easiest to ride and are usually equipped with all the latest technologies and safety features that each brand has to offer.

In the past decade, adventure bikes have been growing in popularity over the normal cruisers and sportbikes. Somehow, the appeal of being able to ride almost anywhere in the world became cooler or more desireable than just speeding around a racetrack or rumbling along a boulevard.

For Pinoys, there’s more incentive to get into ADV bikes because of the numerous destinations around the country that fits ADV riding. Unlike in other countries, you don’t need to fly to an exotic remote country to get your ADV riding fix. Your adventure ride is usually only half day of riding away!

It is made even more fun because of clubs and there are a number of organized adventure bike rides from major brands.

One such event is the world class annual GS Camp Travel event .Now on its 8th year , the Annual GS Camp/Travel Event is organized by BMW Motorrad and Touratech Philippines.Lead organizers are BMW Motorrad Directer Mr. Gil Balderas, Touratech Philippines’ and Certified Motorrad International Tour Guide Mr. Alvin Dee and Certified Motorrad Instructor Mr Toto Villanueva.

(L-R) BMW Motorrad Directer Mr. Gil Balderas, Touratech Philippines’ and Certified Motorrad International Tour Guide Mr. Alvin Dee and Certified Motorrad Intructor Mr Toto Villanueva.

The previous editions were the Blue Rose in Batangas in 2012, Botolan Zambales in 2013, Batis Aramin, Quezon in 2014, Tacloban donation for Yolanda victims in 2015, Cabanatuan Adventure Camp in 2016, Coto Mines, Zambales in 2017 and Dingalan, Aurora last year in 2018.

The 2019 edition was held over the weekend in Dinadiawan, Dipacula Aurora. at the beautiful Elysian Sands Resort

A total of 151 persons attended from different clubs and different brands. Although BMW Motorrad was the main sponsor, it was not an exclusive BMW event as riders on Ducati, KTMs, Kawasakis, Yamahas, Suzukis and even Royal Enfields joined the epic event.

During the weekend, BMW Motorrad Director Mr. Gil Balderas announced two important activities .

First is the 2020 BMW GS Trophy International which will be held in New Zealand around January or February in 2020.

For this event, the Philippines, for the first time will be fielding an all-Filipino team composed of 3 riders that will compete at the Regional Qualifying to be held in Malaysia around July 2019. Hopefully, Team Philippines will be represented in the GS Trophy International. Last year in 2018, Aris Cuevas, the first Filipino GS Trophy Participant was part of the South East Team. He is encouraging capable riders to join the local qualifying events which will be held in 2-3 tranches in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

The next big announcement is this year’s BMW Motorrad Days will be held on July 5-7, 2019 once agsin in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Around 30,000 participants and BMW owners from all over the world are again expected to join the festivities. The tours this year will be 2 batches:
A. Croatia – Garmisch
B. Garmisch – Croatia
C. Munich – around 4 European Countries – Munich (2 groups)

“We’re expecting around 100 participants this year (last year we had 84 participants joining the tour). To know more about the tours, Please contact Gelo Roa and Alvin Dee.” said BMW Motorrad Director Gil Balderas.

In addition, BMW Motorrad together with Waves4Water donated a Water Filtration System to the Dinadiawan Elementary School.

“There will be 800 students and 26 teachers benefiting from this filtration system. This is is the first initiative of BMW Motorrad in the Philippines, helping provide cleaner drinking water to far flung communities,” added Mr. Balderas.