This proves you don't need a £20,000 bike and all the kit, just go with whatever you have.
Most folks wouldn't even consider a Royal Enfield Bullet as an adventure bike but...
https://www.youtube....kb4558ym5w#t=15
Posted 23 November 2014 - 04:00 pm
This proves you don't need a £20,000 bike and all the kit, just go with whatever you have.
Most folks wouldn't even consider a Royal Enfield Bullet as an adventure bike but...
https://www.youtube....kb4558ym5w#t=15
Posted 23 November 2014 - 04:08 pm
Ermm a boike you take on an adventure.......the less suitable the more the adventure? http://www.emilioscotto.com/home.html
Posted 23 November 2014 - 04:34 pm
What make an adventure bike? - the rider !
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Posted 23 November 2014 - 04:36 pm
Posted 23 November 2014 - 04:46 pm
Wot BD said. Oh an how long my knees hold out for off road ventures......
I sure have seen lots of ahem, full on touratech ticked every box in the catalogue loaded bikes wot have had experienced less adventure than someone lighting a fart........
Edited by Favs, 24 November 2014 - 07:39 pm.
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Posted 23 November 2014 - 04:53 pm
Posted 23 November 2014 - 06:06 pm
Yeah, proper sized teaspoons in them days, not like the piddly lickle offerings you get nowadays.
I guess an adventure bike is any bike you use for adventuring.
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Posted 23 November 2014 - 06:59 pm
The TDM ticks all my boxes. I've managed to get just two bits of Touratech on it. I was in a BMW dealer (don't kill me) the other day picking up a small part for an F650 and I wentt round the bikes whilst I was waiting. The salesman had a very fixed idea of what an adventure bike was.
Posted 23 November 2014 - 07:07 pm
Edited by EeeTea, 23 November 2014 - 07:12 pm.
Posted 23 November 2014 - 07:13 pm
Landan Taaan to Exeter....and on the way to the West coast. No glubs or oubt (it were gettin cold). They got directions from a black cab before they left.....no maps....on their way to surprise their parents who were on holibobs in Devonia. They had already been stopped by Rozzers, run oot of fuel....got really lost.........who can say that they aint sat on adventure boikes!! ...except that one of em is stood oooop.
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Posted 23 November 2014 - 07:29 pm
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Posted 23 November 2014 - 07:49 pm
Landan Taaan to Exeter....and on the way to the West coast. No glubs or oubt (it were gettin cold). They got directions from a black cab before they left.....no maps....on their way to surprise their parents who were on holibobs in Devonia. They had already been stopped by Rozzers, run oot of fuel....got really lost.........who can say that they aint sat on adventure boikes!! ...except that one of em is stood oooop.
adventure.JPG
Posted 23 November 2014 - 07:58 pm
Off roading & "Adventure Riding" aren't necessarily the same thing
To go off roading, a 250 trail is an ideal machine - light enough to pick up time & time again, but enough power to get you through the tricky bits - I love going green laning in winter on my 1981 XT250.
Also got a G650 X-Country, which is brilliant off-road, but I take this one out in the summer, on dry trails, because it's a handful for me in the wet
Have even been off-roading on an R80 GS & a 1200GSA .....but again .......too much for an ageing shortarse like me ......smashed my ankle up on the GSA
An 'Adventure Bike' is whatever bike will successfully take you & your kit (plus a pillion if you want to ) on a trip that is out of the ordinary for you ......so it can be anything from a fully tooled up Charlie & Ewan machine to take you round the world, to a couple I know that went from Nottingham to Barcelona & back on a couple of tiny restored Tomas step through mopeds.
I've been adventure riding on all sorts of bikes - GS's, TDM's, a Fazer 1000, a K1200S .....I often do dry offloading on my Mk2 TDM in the Pyrenees .......Masterbrewer does the hardcore stuff in the Australian Outback on a Mk1
Adventure riding is a state of mind, not a type of bike
Edited by sidestand, 23 November 2014 - 08:00 pm.
The older I get, the better I was96 MkII in yellow & silver with bluespots, braided lines, Remus 2 into 1, Hagon rear shock & fork springs, bashplate, heated grips,Motech pannier racks, Road Attacks, Jockoiler, Baglux tank cover & bag. Gone to a far better place - hasn't it Remo?
Another 96 Mk2 in yellow & silver - absolutely standard & pristine ( apart from a butchered rear mudguard - but I'm looking for a new one
'76 Suzuki GT500 Stroker in need of a rebuild
'80 Yamaha XT250 mudplugger
another '81 XT250
'91 BMW R80GS - this one really will do a RTW trip
'05 BMW K1200S - inline four with a shaft
'10 BMW R1200GSA Anniversary Edition
'02 Fazer 1000 - 4 carbs are better than 2 ! - water pump rebuilt by Mr Ramrod Engineering
'00 Triumph Adventurer - Cruiser with a difference - British & a tripleGary's Bathtub - '99 BMW K1200RS in luvverly pillarbox red . Now been Waspycycled to Nuneaton
And the Latest Addition - a nice BMW G650 XCountry greenlaner - on long term loan to Boy Wonder
1996 Kawasaki KH125 Stroker
2000 TDM Mk2A - nicely Studleyfied - Modified by Masterbrewer, but we've fixed that now !
BMW K1300R
2004 TDM 900 in Silver/Blue - heated grips, MRA vary screen, Wilbers rear shock & engine bars to fit
BMW S1000XR in white
Posted 23 November 2014 - 08:49 pm
I hired an Enfield in south India for a couple of weeks - it WAS an adventure. 3 abreast with trucks and coaches - "might is right" over there!
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Posted 23 November 2014 - 09:05 pm
I can well imagine !
I'd love to do that trip ......it's on my bucket list, as is the Dalton Highway, & Nordkapp ........I think Nordkapp will be first
Although, I still have a lot of Scotland to do as well
The older I get, the better I was96 MkII in yellow & silver with bluespots, braided lines, Remus 2 into 1, Hagon rear shock & fork springs, bashplate, heated grips,Motech pannier racks, Road Attacks, Jockoiler, Baglux tank cover & bag. Gone to a far better place - hasn't it Remo?
Another 96 Mk2 in yellow & silver - absolutely standard & pristine ( apart from a butchered rear mudguard - but I'm looking for a new one
'76 Suzuki GT500 Stroker in need of a rebuild
'80 Yamaha XT250 mudplugger
another '81 XT250
'91 BMW R80GS - this one really will do a RTW trip
'05 BMW K1200S - inline four with a shaft
'10 BMW R1200GSA Anniversary Edition
'02 Fazer 1000 - 4 carbs are better than 2 ! - water pump rebuilt by Mr Ramrod Engineering
'00 Triumph Adventurer - Cruiser with a difference - British & a tripleGary's Bathtub - '99 BMW K1200RS in luvverly pillarbox red . Now been Waspycycled to Nuneaton
And the Latest Addition - a nice BMW G650 XCountry greenlaner - on long term loan to Boy Wonder
1996 Kawasaki KH125 Stroker
2000 TDM Mk2A - nicely Studleyfied - Modified by Masterbrewer, but we've fixed that now !
BMW K1300R
2004 TDM 900 in Silver/Blue - heated grips, MRA vary screen, Wilbers rear shock & engine bars to fit
BMW S1000XR in white
Posted 23 November 2014 - 10:08 pm
go on Mick you should be up to it some time soon
I can well imagine !
I'd love to do that trip to Nottingham and pick the 850 bits up but,
but I still have a lot of Scotland to do as well
Posted 23 November 2014 - 10:22 pm
I'd forgotten about those !
Am away on our last camping weekender of the year next week, but I'll give you a call after that Steve ......I still owe you a go on the GS as well, don't I ?
The older I get, the better I was96 MkII in yellow & silver with bluespots, braided lines, Remus 2 into 1, Hagon rear shock & fork springs, bashplate, heated grips,Motech pannier racks, Road Attacks, Jockoiler, Baglux tank cover & bag. Gone to a far better place - hasn't it Remo?
Another 96 Mk2 in yellow & silver - absolutely standard & pristine ( apart from a butchered rear mudguard - but I'm looking for a new one
'76 Suzuki GT500 Stroker in need of a rebuild
'80 Yamaha XT250 mudplugger
another '81 XT250
'91 BMW R80GS - this one really will do a RTW trip
'05 BMW K1200S - inline four with a shaft
'10 BMW R1200GSA Anniversary Edition
'02 Fazer 1000 - 4 carbs are better than 2 ! - water pump rebuilt by Mr Ramrod Engineering
'00 Triumph Adventurer - Cruiser with a difference - British & a tripleGary's Bathtub - '99 BMW K1200RS in luvverly pillarbox red . Now been Waspycycled to Nuneaton
And the Latest Addition - a nice BMW G650 XCountry greenlaner - on long term loan to Boy Wonder
1996 Kawasaki KH125 Stroker
2000 TDM Mk2A - nicely Studleyfied - Modified by Masterbrewer, but we've fixed that now !
BMW K1300R
2004 TDM 900 in Silver/Blue - heated grips, MRA vary screen, Wilbers rear shock & engine bars to fit
BMW S1000XR in white
Posted 24 November 2014 - 12:49 am
The TDM ticks all my boxes. I've managed to get just two bits of Touratech on it. I was in a BMW dealer (don't kill me) the other day picking up a small part for an F650 and I wentt round the bikes whilst I was waiting. The salesman had a very fixed idea of what an adventure bike was.
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Off roading & "Adventure Riding" aren't necessarily the same thing
To go off roading, a 250 trail is an ideal machine - light enough to pick up time & time again, but enough power to get you through the tricky bits - I love going green laning in winter on my 1981 XT250.
Also got a G650 X-Country, which is brilliant off-road, but I take this one out in the summer, on dry trails, because it's a handful for me in the wet
Have even been off-roading on an R80 GS & a 1200GSA .....but again .......too much for an ageing shortarse like me ......smashed my ankle up on the GSA
An 'Adventure Bike' is whatever bike will successfully take you & your kit (plus a pillion if you want to ) on a trip that is out of the ordinary for you ......so it can be anything from a fully tooled up Charlie & Ewan machine to take you round the world, to a couple I know that went from Nottingham to Barcelona & back on a couple of tiny restored Tomas step through mopeds.
I've been adventure riding on all sorts of bikes - GS's, TDM's, a Fazer 1000, a K1200S .....I often do dry offloading on my Mk2 TDM in the Pyrenees .......Masterbrewer does the hardcore stuff in the Australian Outback on a Mk1
Adventure riding is a state of mind, not a type of bike
Hi sidestand!
Adventure riding is a state of mind, not a type of bike
Cheers!
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Posted 24 November 2014 - 02:04 am
Landan Taaan to Exeter....and on the way to the West coast. No glubs or oubt (it were gettin cold). They got directions from a black cab before they left.....no maps....on their way to surprise their parents who were on holibobs in Devonia. They had already been stopped by Rozzers, run oot of fuel....got really lost.........who can say that they aint sat on adventure boikes!! ...except that one of em is stood oooop.
lucky fer them we toightened up their loose brake caliper ! Them bays had a proper adventure. Me n' she hired an Enfield 500 in India a few years back and we loved it's simplicity and how easy it was to ride. just watched all of this, lovely country, people and boikes.
https://www.youtube....5Tsdh6A4cQ#t=15
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