Adventure Assault No 3 - Ride options?

[young1]

I will most probably overnight somewhere on the Friday night - perhaps we could catch up for a drink/meal if you guys end up doing the same.

Yep all sounds good, we still need to make a decision on the ride etc, but it would be nice to catch up like that.

Mike

[windboy]

Don't know you Big Dave at all but if you were considering a tenere, may be worth having a look at this puppy, I didn't even know they made them that big...

specs are here

That peaky mudguard off the fairing resembles the newer BMW quite a bit huh? BMW ripping styling of a jap bike from the 90s?

later,

[Big Dave]

Don't know you Big Dave at all but if you were considering a tenere, may be worth having a look at this puppy, I didn't even know they made them that big...

specs are here

That peaky mudguard off the fairing resembles the newer BMW quite a bit huh? BMW ripping styling of a jap bike from the 90s?

later,

taa - i don't think I've ever seen one of them before.

[Garry.W]

I kinda liked the look of the super tenere Yamahas at Awakino. My size.

No, you must have been tripping DC

I reckon you could make a good scrambler from a stock 2nd hand bonne too.

That's more like it

[Oscar]

I give to you sir, the monster-truck of motorcycles:

920mm seat high and a 950cc vtwin.

Now if we all had a spare $20K+ lieing around and were all over 6 feet tall...

I rode one of those.
Wow. It's one of those beast that after you ride it the first time, your hands are shaking and yer gibbering things like "...holyshitIgottagitmeoneadose..."
No disrepect to Dave, but that's waaaay more bike than he needs on gravel.
Me, on the other hand...

[Oscar]

Oh gentlemen, did not the mighty Scrambler prove its worth to the masses assembled at the for mentioned outing? Were you not in awe of its ability to break down, and ressurecte itself in your humble presence?
Those of such shallow faith should kneel, nenh wallow in nerve and fortitude in the presence of such mechanical splender.........

OK, I'll be there, just slow down and make me look good

It certainly did, as did the mighty W650...

[Oscar]

Not even worth a bite



No one is an expert!!
Even you!! so I have heard

You shouldn't believe everything you hear.

[clint640]

Just talked to Ann at Journey's End Station, the shearer's quarters are available 18 August & she has offered to cook us one of her legendary dinners & stock the chiller with beer for us

Zukin's map is a rough guide apart from Journey's End which is actually on the inland side of hwy 2 up the Koranga Valley behind Matawai. Funnily enough Wairangi near Arowhana where the overnight stop is marked is another station I know well, a family friend managed it for years, an expedition up though there would be a good summer trip.

Would you bastards please stop putting up pics of the 950 SuperEnduro, I'm trying to save up for a workshop/house & you're not bloody making it easy

How much for the seester?

No use to you, you wouldn't be able to catch her, she's way faster on gravel than you are

Cheers
Clint

[Big Dave]

No disrepect to Dave, but that's waaaay more bike than he needs on gravel.
Me, on the other hand...

Mr 3rd person would like to feign indignation and point out that his attitude and general disposition to dirt recklessness is tempered by the fact that he's on expensive loaners that he wants to be able to loaner again. Or his own 20k tractor.

Give me a bike that I'm not shitting myself about scratching up and I'll keep a lot closer to you cahants.

But yer right that ktm wouldn't be it. A 3.5k Twin like that DR would. That would run 60 horsepower? TKCs and a trip to Norm Cobb and Like a bad suit, sunshine.

[Zukin]

So we can confirm the 18th and 19th August for this ride?

Clint what is the maximum number that can be accommodated at the shearers quarters, as I am sure that this trip will fill up

Cheers

[cooneyr]

....Would you bastards please stop putting up pics of the 950 SuperEnduro, I'm trying to save up for a workshop/house & you're not bloody making it easy ...

Here here. When they start making a 18l tank for one my wife is working the streets till I can afford one - well maybe not . Serious cool toy but way more bike than I will ever be able to afford or need.

...A 3.5k Twin like that DR would. That would run 60 horsepower?

Ahhhh - very big single pot not a twin. 50hp according to the link. Pitty they didnt stick a twin in it but thems the breaks. An uprated DR Big chassis with a nice narrow angle twin i.e. in the middle between a weestrom and DR650 would be worth a test ride.

Cheers R

[Oscar]

No use to you, you wouldn't be able to catch her, she's way faster on gravel than you are

Cheers
Clint

So she's waaaaaaaaay faster'n you then?

[Oscar]

Here here. When they start making a 18l tank for one my wife is working the streets till I can afford one - well maybe not . Serious cool toy but way more bike than I will ever be able to afford or need.




Cheers R

I got over 150k out of a tank on the 950SE before the warning light came on.
If you babied it, you'd prolly get 180k.

[Big Dave]

weestrom and DR650 would be worth a test ride.

Cheers R

Thanks - I didn't look that closely - and I agree about the DL650 - but I Can't justify the expense (DL DR) - when it's the type of riding I do 5 or 6 days a year - and I already have a bike that's quite capable of doing it - just not as fast as my mates with dedicated 21" knobby machines (or they are freaks like Stretch.)

The buell would be as good on dirt roads as a wee - if you could get the *&^@#&) tyres. The only time I'd hesitate to take it off the seal is in big wet. And that's only because of the rubber.

[cooneyr]

I got over 150k out of a tank on the 950SE before the warning light came on.
If you babied it, you'd prolly get 180k.

I want closer to 300 than 200. Going to get a IMS for the DR when we get back from Sweden in October.

The buell would be as good on dirt roads as a wee - if you could get the *&^@#&) tyres. The only time I'd hesitate to take it off the seal is in big wet. And that's only because of the rubber.

Swap them for their bike i.e. give them the buell and then see who's the "slow" one - oh wait that may back fire

One day I'll get to the other island for a ride with you guys. This trip looks like it will cover some interesting ground - down the middle of the Hui/Rauku ranges.

Cheers R