Rider Profile: Around-the-World Rider Rene Cormier
Rene Cormier spent five years traveling around the world on a motorcycle.
It was when Rene Cormier was pulled over in Tajikistan that a man in fatigues with an assault rifle asking about official documents made a sudden move.
He threw his firearm into the hands of Cormier?s travel companion, Guillaume, and started to pirouette.
Cormier had stopped his BMW F 650 GS Dakar and was offering to take photographs to ease the tension at this Russian military checkpoint on the southern border of the small country. It seemed to bring out the inner ham of an underutilized, underpaid soldier.
Don’t judge a Russian military checkpoint soldier in Tajikistan by his fatigues…he may strike a pose or do a pirouette!
Let?s go back to the beginning?. In 2003, Rene Cormier was the communications manager for Colorado-based RockShox when he discovered a Chicago firm was buying the bicycle suspension manufacturer. He would need to move with the company. He declined the new position and instead roared off from Colorado Springs to Alaska on a used orange BMW R 1150 GS. It would be Cormier?s first big trip on a motorcycle.
Rene Cormier before his trip talk.
Good conditions and enjoyable roads allowed Cormier to consider his future plans as a soon-to-be-unemployed communications specialist. What would he do upon his return" The answer would come to him. Two Colombians, traveling on the same model motorcycle Cormier was riding, convinced him to ride to South America. They told him Spa...
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