Dear Adventure pussies

[carver]

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]

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]

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]

Great to see those yamaha trickers in action- are the available here.
Wild bikes!

[junkmanjoe]

intersting to see they dont have a skid plate, thought it would have been a must in them conditions

[carver]

not having fuel is part of the adventure you pussies!

i would ride my trials bike 100k if i could!

[tri boy]

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]

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]

Cool bikes. I see there are 4 on trademe. I like the yellow one.

[marks]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

this is how a silly movie to prove a point is started

That makes no sense at all.

[carver]

That makes no sense at all.

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[NordieBoy]

Oh yeah :2thumbsup

Love the lane splitting at the end.

[cooneyr]

....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]

besides, the DR's a bit porky for an inner tube that size. Be too heavy to lug a tractor tube along :eek:

[carver]

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]

where the fuck is that?

Don't ya know where Farile is :shifty:

[carver]

Don't ya know where Farile is :shifty:

link me a link.
im fucked from trail riding today

[rosie631]

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]

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]

Try Fairlie. CooneyR is dislexic.... :). Think it may be a reference to the DB1K

[reofix]

just sth of Awakino.... east of Aria... west of Whangamomona ... but nth of kandallah.... We normally take the corolla...

[carver]

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]

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]

all i do is do it!

that's fairly obvious from your avatar

[PeteJ]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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: