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[Eddieb]

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Thread and much bigger original at: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=489411

[Waihou Thumper]

One day Eddie, one day mate.... Yessiree...
1500 odd km to Alice....that's 6-7 fills of the Katie and maybe a new engine at the end of the road from all the dust it has ingested...

[clint640]

Watch that space for a KTM 640 & a WR250R mid 2012.

Clint

[Bass]

This sign is obviously at Carnegie Station and the distances bear that out.
I must be getting old because I don't remember it at all and I stood on that corner and took a heap of photos.
Maybe it wasn't there in 2008?

[Eddieb]

Watch that space for a KTM 640 & a WR250R mid 2012.

Clint

Clint, and others who have done it.

Are any of you willing to share information how much it costs to do an Aus trip for those of us who also hold ideas of doing it. I'm thinking along the lines of general info on total cost for x amount of time, average living costs per day, shipping costs etc.

[clint640]

Clint, and others who have done it.

Are any of you willing to share information how much it costs to do an Aus trip for those of us who also hold ideas of doing it. I'm thinking along the lines of general info on total cost for x amount of time, average living costs per day, shipping costs etc.

Cost us about $2K per bike all up return. Living costs were bugger all really as we camped quite often. Have a look at our ride report on advrider, there is a summary of the shipping costs on p6.

Cheers
Clint

[Waihou Thumper]

Cost us about $2K per bike all up return. Living costs were bugger all really as we camped quite often.

So, for the time that you were there, the airfare, the shipping , the canets etc....All of the costs, did you sort of get a ball park figure amount that you would need when planning?
$4000-5000? I dunno, fuel, airfare and the shipping would be the biggest cost right? Not excluding the chance, dare I say of a malfunction or breakage?

[clint640]

So, for the time that you were there, the airfare, the shipping , the canets etc....All of the costs, did you sort of get a ball park figure amount that you would need when planning?
$4000-5000? I dunno, fuel, airfare and the shipping would be the biggest cost right? Not excluding the chance, dare I say of a malfunction or breakage?

Yep, it was about 5K ea all up for 5 weeks. You could do it cheaper, that included more than a few beers, bottles of good red & some pub meals. I just looked up the visa bill, it worked out to NZ$65/day for me (+ shipping etc & airfares)

Cheers
Clint

[Waihou Thumper]

Yep, it was about 5K ea all up for 5 weeks. You could do it cheaper, that included more than a few beers, bottles of good red & some pub meals. I just looked up the visa bill, it worked out to NZ$65/day for me (+ shipping etc & airfares)

Cheers
Clint

Yeah, that is what I would figure into the equation....Pub meals, red wine... especially after eating red dirt most of the day. Awesome, Ta Clint....Pretty good holiday then, can be done cheaper too I guess.
BUT, it is a holiday.....

[Bass]

It cost me about NZ$25,000 but that includes buying the bike and the added farkling, which was substantial - so say $12,500 all up for the machine.
That leaves $12,500 for the trip which was 18,000 km and about 10 weeks. That figure includes 2 sets of tyres, a chain/sprockets set and a couple of services - for the bike that is. It also includes my riding gear, helmet, gloves etc, the specialist luggage and $1,000 worth of spares. Basically, these were the costs, starting from scratch with nothing.
Obviously, there are some offsets. I still have the bike, riding gear and luggage for example and we never used any spares, so they went back for credit.
Like Clint and Rosie, we treated ourselves here and there but 2 months of camping and dried food made the treats necessary to avoid murder being done.

[Rosie]

Yeah, that is what I would figure into the equation....Pub meals, red wine... especially after eating red dirt most of the day. Awesome, Ta Clint....Pretty good holiday then, can be done cheaper too I guess.
BUT, it is a holiday.....

I think we managed to do it relatively cheaply. If you don't count the booze and the cost of replacing the carnets
We usually stayed in fairly basic camping areas and prepared our own food. A couple of times a week we'd have a pub meal, if we were staying near somewhere nice.
As well as keeping costs down, doing our own food meant that we could stay in some really interesting remote places, and when we were near civilisation, if the pub fare didn't look the best we always had a better offer on hand.

[GPS MAN]

That COST me out.....

[NordieBoy]

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[dino3310]

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[NordieBoy]

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