The bike Toni Moles calls Débora was born a full-blooded supersport: full fairing, low clip-on handlebars, 636 cc engine. It's a 2004 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R, bought when he was 19. Moles, a Spanish traveller from Benicarló known online as Toninja, has added knobby tyres, luggage, an auxiliary tank and a gel seat. Since 2017 he's been taking it down tracks and over mountain passes that usually call for an enduro.
The first trip was to Dakar. Routes across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas followed. His reports let you trace the journey growing: more than 150,000 kilometres in 2023; 174,000 and 81 countries by March 2024; over 250,000 kilometres and more than ninety countries in the most recent tallies. The number Moles gives today is 94.
The most complicated stretch came in 2025, during the crossing toward Panama. The vessel carrying him and the Kawasaki sank in the Caribbean Sea, near the Darién. Débora went to the bottom and stayed underwater for around two days, until a rescue team found and recovered her.
Saltwater had got into the engine and the bike's electrics. After the evacuation, the Kawasaki was stripped down, cleaned and repaired. In the end it ran again, and Moles was able to continue the journey on the same machine he'd bought as a teenager.
Those two days on the ocean floor remain the only stretch of the route that Débora has covered with the engine off.