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carver
23rd April 2009, 19:21
this is a adventure.
not pushing some KLR/BMW with the kitchen sink on board.
lets see you tie your bike to a inner tube and swim downstream after it
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bart
23rd April 2009, 19:34
Be a short adventure with only about 5 litres of fuel each. Support crew must be carrying all their gas, and bedding, and food, and, and, and.........
Part of the adventure is being self sufficient.
Nice scenery though.
Box'a'bits
23rd April 2009, 19:35
this is a adventure.
not pushing some KLR/BMW with the kitchen sink on board.
lets see you tie your bike to a inner tube and swim downstream after it
Pretty cool marketing video. :woohoo: Wonder if the bikes started right up after the inner tube ride....
Bet that they didn't ride to location either. Probably came on the back of a truck.
Adventuring is also about the ride there...
Steve
cave weta
23rd April 2009, 19:42
Great to see those yamaha trickers in action- are the available here.
Wild bikes!
junkmanjoe
23rd April 2009, 19:54
intersting to see they dont have a skid plate, thought it would have been a must in them conditions
carver
23rd April 2009, 20:50
not having fuel is part of the adventure you pussies!
i would ride my trials bike 100k if i could!
tri boy
23rd April 2009, 20:56
lets see you tie your bike to a inner tube and swim downstream after it
Twas the only way to get across the Bloomfield river, (and others) heading up to Bamaga in far nth Qld in the 70's and early eighties.
Cept there were these pesky lil critters to deal with, think we called them swampy dogs. Better known as estuarine salt water crocodiles.
carver
23rd April 2009, 21:10
Twas the only way to get across the Bloomfield river, (and others) heading up to Bamaga in far nth Qld in the 70's and early eighties.
Cept there were these pesky lil critters to deal with, think we called them swampy dogs. Better known as estuarine salt water crocodiles.
whats it like over there?
Taz
23rd April 2009, 21:14
Cool bikes. I see there are 4 on trademe. I like the yellow one.
marks
23rd April 2009, 21:56
hmmm.....
I know guys
maybe we'll sell some of those crappy trials bike wannabe trickers if we throw a couple on a trailer and look for some cool places to shoot a few bits of film then we could string it all together and make it look the bikes are ridden the whole way - sorta like charlie and ewen in miniature.....
tri boy
23rd April 2009, 22:13
whats it like over there?
Everything bites, and some will disembowel you. And thats just the natives.
You would be in your element on the Cape York postie bike challenge.
Google it.:yes:
Paladin
23rd April 2009, 22:16
Trials versus ADV????? Apples & Oranges I would say. Trials riders can do awesome tricks on a bike BUT its just not the same sport as we're into is it. They can't do 1000km in 24hrs unaided and I can't bounce my DR vertical 5m and land balanced on a tree branch - and neither could they I'd bet! (I can bounce my DR 20m diagonally straight into a hillside tho - does that count?!!!!! :shutup: )
cooneyr
23rd April 2009, 22:24
not having fuel is part of the adventure you pussies!
i would ride my trials bike 100k if i could!
Isnt that the point - that you cant.
Trials versus ADV????? Apples & Oranges I would say. Trials riders can do awesome tricks on a bike BUT its just not the same sport as we're into is it. They can't do 1000km in 24hrs unaided and I can't bounce my DR vertical 5m and land balanced on a tree branch - and neither could they I'd bet! (I can bounce my DR 20m diagonally straight into a hillside tho - does that count?!!!!! :shutup: )
Try 1000kms over some pretty challenging roads be they gravel or seal in between 16 and 20 hours. The Otago route is going to be a beauty - approx 830kms of gravel :woohoo:
Cheers R
carver
23rd April 2009, 22:34
hmmm.....
I know guys
maybe we'll sell some of those crappy trials bike wannabe trickers if we throw a couple on a trailer and look for some cool places to shoot a few bits of film then we could string it all together and make it look the bikes are ridden the whole way - sorta like charlie and ewen in miniature.....
well, it would have been a good ADVENTURE!
Everything bites, and some will disembowel you. And thats just the natives.
You would be in your element on the Cape York postie bike challenge.
Google it.:yes:
i have heard of it, im not the biggest fan of the CT 110, i like the NXR 125!
Isnt that the point - that you cant.
Try 1000kms over some pretty challenging roads be they gravel or seal in between 16 and 20 hours. The Otago route is going to be a beauty - approx 830kms of gravel :woohoo:
Cheers R
this is how a silly movie to prove a point is started
Laxi
23rd April 2009, 22:36
whats it like over there?
Everything bites, and some will disembowel you. And thats just the natives.
You would be in your element on the Cape York postie bike challenge.
Google it.:yes:
sure you dont cross any river near the coast, or goe near the sea cause if the crocs dont get you the bloody jellyfish kill you in under a minute, but anyone who has ever ridden the gillies or kuranda ranges or copperlode dam in 35c+ either falls in love with the place or is stupid
Woodman
23rd April 2009, 23:09
this is how a silly movie to prove a point is started
That makes no sense at all.
carver
24th April 2009, 06:47
That makes no sense at all.
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NordieBoy
24th April 2009, 07:59
Oh yeah :2thumbsup
Love the lane splitting at the end.
cooneyr
25th April 2009, 12:55
....this is how a silly movie to prove a point is started
Go on then - see you in Farile in early Jan 2010 with a <=125cc bike and a movie camera then aye. Make sure you have batteries and space for at least 24 hours of shooting.
johannvr
25th April 2009, 19:16
besides, the DR's a bit porky for an inner tube that size. Be too heavy to lug a tractor tube along :eek:
carver
26th April 2009, 19:25
Go on then - see you in Farile in early Jan 2010 with a <=125cc bike and a movie camera then aye. Make sure you have batteries and space for at least 24 hours of shooting.
where the fuck is that?
Taz
26th April 2009, 19:28
where the fuck is that?
Don't ya know where Farile is :shifty:
carver
26th April 2009, 19:35
Don't ya know where Farile is :shifty:
link me a link.
im fucked from trail riding today
rosie631
26th April 2009, 19:57
Might have to change my opinion of you Carver. At least you are out there doing it. But for gods sake please change your avatar.
BTW I think they mean Fairlie
That looks like fun
26th April 2009, 19:59
Ooooh yes in deedy I am impressed with those things. If I get 2 of them I can hang one off each side of the bimmer and use them as a saddle bags :done:
Taz
26th April 2009, 20:00
Try Fairlie. CooneyR is dislexic.... :). Think it may be a reference to the DB1K
reofix
26th April 2009, 20:06
just sth of Awakino.... east of Aria... west of Whangamomona ... but nth of kandallah.... We normally take the corolla...
carver
26th April 2009, 20:07
Might have to change my opinion of you Carver. At least you are out there doing it. But for gods sake please change your avatar.
BTW I think they mean Fairlie
no, its our moments of glory, soon to be re-lived this year!
all i do is do it!
Ooooh yes in deedy I am impressed with those things. If I get 2 of them I can hang one off each side of the bimmer and use them as a saddle bags :done:
and you wont even double the weight!
Try Fairlie. CooneyR is dislexic.... :). Think it may be a reference to the DB1K
ah, there we go!
cooneyr
26th April 2009, 22:09
Try Fairlie. CooneyR is dislexic.... :). Think it may be a reference to the DB1K
That will be it, or I'm an engineer (most of us can't spell) and my spelling is notoriously bad. Definitely a reference to the DB1k.
marks
27th April 2009, 07:49
all i do is do it!
that's fairly obvious from your avatar
PeteJ
27th April 2009, 16:45
Ah, yes, adventure riding: what you do with the stunts when you get bored with stunting for its own sake.
Does anyone else remember the girl who used to ride her Vespa 50 from Tauranga to uni in Dunedin and back 3 times a year in the early 70s? Nipple pink, it was: she called it "Nippy".
Sorry, Carver, it's all been done, better, before.
NordieBoy
27th April 2009, 17:12
Ah, yes, adventure riding: what you do with the stunts when you get bored with stunting for its own sake.
Does anyone else remember the girl who used to ride her Vespa 50 from Tauranga to uni in Dunedin and back 3 times a year in the early 70s? Nipple pink, it was: she called it "Nippy".
Sorry, Carver, it's all been done, better, before.
Pics?
Vids?
carver
27th April 2009, 17:53
Ah, yes, adventure riding: what you do with the stunts when you get bored with stunting for its own sake.
Does anyone else remember the girl who used to ride her Vespa 50 from Tauranga to uni in Dunedin and back 3 times a year in the early 70s? Nipple pink, it was: she called it "Nippy".
Sorry, Carver, it's all been done, better, before.
its been done better than that my friend
PeteJ
28th April 2009, 12:29
its been done better than that my friend
Yeah, I was giving only one example. I'm sure that someone who is not a girl could do better. So you girls did?
And then, there is the woman who rode her BSA Bantam 125 from the UK to NZ via land apart from necessary sea crossings, including PNG and Aus north to south via the Centre, to take up her job as nursing supervisor of the maternity ward at Tauranga hospital in the late 1950s.
It's a recent myth that you need an "adventure" bike for adventuring, though there is a respectable argument that riding a Banty any more than 5 kilometres at a time is an adventure in its own right.
And as for my own exploits, suffice it to say that my favourite ever award in a trial was for most artistic get-off. No pics - the photographers were too awe-struck (translate: paralytic with laughter).
carver
28th April 2009, 13:06
Yeah, I was giving only one example. I'm sure that someone who is not a girl could do better. So you girls did?
And then, there is the woman who rode her BSA Bantam 125 from the UK to NZ via land apart from necessary sea crossings, including PNG and Aus north to south via the Centre, to take up her job as nursing supervisor of the maternity ward at Tauranga hospital in the late 1950s.
It's a recent myth that you need an "adventure" bike for adventuring, though there is a respectable argument that riding a Banty any more than 5 kilometres at a time is an adventure in its own right.
And as for my own exploits, suffice it to say that my favourite ever award in a trial was for most artistic get-off. No pics - the photographers were too awe-struck (translate: paralytic with laughter).
i rode a yamaha jog from kaitia to cape reianga via 90 mile beach, then all the way from the cape to orewa in a day.
55kph just about all the way,apart from doing 90 mile beach at high tide.
nothing hard about it
PeteJ
28th April 2009, 14:25
i rode a yamaha jog from kaitia to cape reianga via 90 mile beach, then all the way from the cape to orewa in a day.
55kph just about all the way,apart from doing 90 mile beach at high tide.
nothing hard about it
Exactly so.
K slider
30th April 2009, 20:02
Trials versus ADV????? Apples & Oranges I would say. Trials riders can do awesome tricks on a bike BUT its just not the same sport as we're into is it. They can't do 1000km in 24hrs unaided and I can't bounce my DR vertical 5m and land balanced on a tree branch - and neither could they I'd bet! (I can bounce my DR 20m diagonally straight into a hillside tho - does that count?!!!!! :shutup: )Have a look at the Scotish Six day Trial,It is well over 1000 kms.
Dont knock it until you have tried it.
NordieBoy
30th April 2009, 20:52
Have a look at the Scotish Six day Trial,It is well over 1000 kms.
Dont knock it until you have tried it.
160km per day.
Pussies :whistle:
Paladin
30th April 2009, 21:01
Have a look at the Scotish Six day Trial,It is well over 1000 kms.
Dont knock it until you have tried it.
I'm not knocking it all, honest! As I said I think Trials bike riders can do awesome things on their bikes and I admire them for it; was just trying to say IMO, Trials and ADV(as we do it) are an Apples v Oranges comparison. On the Scottish 6 Day trial, are the trials bike riders carrying everything they need for 6 days themselves on their bikes with them, except for fuel(they're not!); we could couldn't we? I don't have any problem with what they are doing and would totally agree they are having an adventure too; I just think its a different slant on biking to the adv rides we do, just as I think if we go on a really gnarly track it aint motocross and probably not even close enough to be called full Enduro maybe! Its all valid and all enjoyable and arguably an adventure of sorts for the participants whatever the slant, but IMO just different from what we are doing was all I was trying to say. Would you have wanted to ride a trials bike from Welly to Otorohonga for the KCR last weekend and then do the KCR 2 days and then ride it back to Welly? I wouldn't, just as I wouldn't want to take the DR on a full-on Trials course! Both are great fun but for me they are different even if they are both an adventure for the rider!
NordieBoy
30th April 2009, 21:10
On the Scottish 6 Day trial, are the trials bike riders carrying everything they need for 6 days themselves on their bikes with them, except for fuel(they're not!); we could couldn't we?
Do they have latte stops? :confused:
Paladin
30th April 2009, 21:50
Do they have latte stops? :confused:
No they don't! (their loss!) You see, its just different, we're real hard men who can operate a bike even high on drugs like caffeine!
:whistle:
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