Am I crazy to want to try Adventure Riding?

[Night Falcon]

About bikes, Are the KTM's high maintanance machines, or do they goes for years like the DR's etc. ( with regular maintanance obviously ).

KTM's tend to have shortish service intervals (5k for my 690) which you need to keep on top of. They aren't DR's or KLR's though, so if you want less cost as apposed to more grunt and better setup, then your best bet is the old jappers.

[GerryAttrick]

Gerryattrick, Did you get a bike in the end? I'm in the same boat, hitting 60 years, currently got the cruiser on Turd me ( along with 1312 others).

Not yet..well not an Adventure bike. I havea couple in mind but have not had much time to look at the moment. Trying to get the house ready for sale so that I can get out of this rat race in Auckland and retire to the peace of Coromandel(Whangamata). The problem is that the place at Whangamata does not yet have a garage so I'd have to ferry the bike backwards and forwards if I wanted to use it more than one weekend a month.

[george formby]

Not yet..well not an Adventure bike. I havea couple in mind but have not had much time to look at the moment. Trying to get the house ready for sale so that I can get out of this rat race in Auckland and retire to the peace of Coromandel(Whangamata). The problem is that the place at Whangamata does not yet have a garage so I'd have to ferry the bike backwards and forwards if I wanted to use it more than one weekend a month.

I would look upon that as an enforced adventure, throw common sense to the wind & get somebody else to do the ferrying.

[dino3310]

just buy a KLR mate, you wont need a shed cause no one would want to pinch it

or another thing you could do is find a less visable spot around the pad dig a hole fill it with concrete with an anchor bolt/loop on top chian ya beastie to that and get a decent bike cover, if ya around all the time that is, no good if ya here there and every where. But then again if someone wants it bad enough they'll grab it.