Touratech
- Advrider Older Magazines
- November 2, 2023
To walk through Touratech’s factory in Niedereschach on the fringes of the Black Forest in southern Germany, is, on one hand, jaw-dropping and enlightening. On the other hand, it’s probably just as you’d expect it to be.
I’d gone to Germany knowing full well that Touratech is one of the most respected brands in adventure-motorcycle touring, so I’d expected a top-notch operation with some high-tech machinery.
Yet, after meeting Touratech’s founder, Herbert Schwarz, and realising what an everyday, knock-about kind of bloke he was, it would’ve been easy to fall into the trap of thinking Touratech was a backyard operation punching well above its weight.
Nothing could have been further from the truth.
