AJP to crack into the adventure market

[Scubbo]

http://motoajp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ajp_pr7_011-e1447532144344.png

http://motoajp.com/enduros/models-features/pr-7/ (http://motoajp.com/enduros/models-features/pr-7/)

could be a winner, few shops stock AJPs in NZ, their little offroad models are great

[AllanB]

That's not an adventure bike - it needs to weigh at least 250kg and need a step-ladder to mount it and have a famous actor to make a doco while riding it.

[tri boy]

AJP has used quality bits on their bikes in the past.
And looking at this beasty, they still do. Nice bit of kit.
Now all they need are nonmuppets down under as agents.

[Tazz]

That's not an adventure bike - it needs to weigh at least 250kg and need a step-ladder to mount it and have a famous actor to make a doco while riding it.

Correct sir! That is a 'duel-purpose' bike ;)

[pritch]

That looks like what the others call a "rally" type bike. Honda did one and KTM are working on one, a Dakar replica type thing. I think they're great but I'd still need a ladder to get on the bloody thing

[Daffyd]

Where are they made?

[tri boy]

Where are they made?

Usedto be Italy.
Not sure now.

[Scubbo]

portugal / manufactured-assembled there also

[Daffyd]

Thanks, I'd never heard of them.

[v twin]

That's not an adventure bike - it needs to weigh at least 250kg and need a step-ladder to mount it and have a famous actor to make a doco while riding it.

Haha agreed, 600cc (if I read it right) probably not enough for distance imo and the weight looks to me(just looking) to be very front focused which may get tiring on a big adventure... more of a big bore enduro I'd say. I used to used a 636 single for hare and hounds and enduro which was a work out but had a longer swing arm than that and was still pretty hairy at the top end.
I like the welding mask on the front, very.....practical

[mossy1200]

I like the welding mask on the front, very.....practical

Really?
I would be hoping that all smashed off first crash. Guess tastes vary.

[v twin]

Really?
I would be hoping that all smashed off first crash. Guess tastes vary.

Ha yea 'tis fugly ea

[Scubbo]

yeah when I say ADV I mean dual sport non-road only, unlike the cruisers that the euromarket trys to sell you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxnuL1MNyY

[HenryDorsetCase]

Thats a dirt bike with lights and a 36 inch seat height. It may as well be a MotoGP bike for all the use it would be to me.

(as others have said - stepladder)

[Scubbo]

Their pr4/5 are usually road legal spec when sold in NZ so if you're after a smaller road legal dual sporter, they'd be an option -- neat bikes just a little small in the gas tank being underseat but makes for a super low center of gravity

i'd say this is aimed at people who look at the KTM 690 and can't stretch to the cost of the thing

[pritch]

Portugal, like Spain, may be classifed as a third world country and receive tax advantages.

A year or so back Honda announced the CRF250 Rally. Turns out it isn't a super rapid but exceedingly fragile, Dakar beast of a thing, it's a sheep in wolf's clothing.
Commuting is a sugested use.

A CRF450 Rally would be more interesting though.

Anyhoo, Blue Wing are doing their usual Admiral Nelson thing and turning a blind eye. It is available in Australia.

After thunk: On checking the seat height is 895mm so I would need that ladder.

[Tazz]

After thunk: On checking the seat height is 895mm so I would need that ladder.

Not often you're stopping on even terrain on a bike like that, unless for some weird reason you decide to commute through the central city.

[pritch]

Not often you're stopping on even terrain on a bike like that, unless for some weird reason you decide to commute through the central city.

Coupla things: I used to be 5'91/2" but when recently measured for a passport I was 5'5". Yep heightwise we shrink over time (but we do tend to get wider). Commuting though is an intended purpose of that bike according to the Honda ad.

That seat height might not seem overly intimidating but from memory it's higher than the Africa Twin?

[Tazz]

Coupla things: I used to be 5'91/2" but when recently measured for a passport I was 5'5". Yep heightwise we shrink over time (but we do tend to get wider). Commuting though is an intended purpose of that bike according to the Honda ad.

That seat height might not seem overly intimidating but from memory it's higher than the Africa Twin?

Your legs will still be the same length though won't they? Well, I hope so :laugh:
I have a bike taller than that and so long as you can handle not being able to flat foot both feet at a stop sign (which you can't do on a hill anyway so is not a good habit...) it's fine.

Bit of a yawn fest on tarmac by comparison to what else you can get to commute on though *cough* motard *cough*