Thread: Adventure Bikes

Hi ishoot10's, ( great name)

I ride an older (2000) BMW 1150GS and love its simplicity which is why I bought an older-school bike. Having hunted extensively in the south island highcountry using TT250's and TT500's there is no way in hell I would consider taking a large adventure bike across some of the rivers and tracks the smaller bikes took in their stride.
Probably because I am older & wiser and not as strong as I one was but if I dropped it crossing one of those knarly fast flowing snow feed creeks / rivers I probably couldn't lift it to retreive it. I suspect nowadays also strapping a rifle / case across your back to go hunting would probably cause a few calls to the authorities.

We started our hunting adventures using an old Series 1 Landrover but after more than two hours of foot flat yelling to be heard over the screaming engine and tire noise the motorbikes were sheer bloody heaven to hunt on. A bit of stuffing around with rope tying them on, stopping to re-tie a couple of times but once at the parkking spot & on the bikes it was sheer bliss. Tie-downs were the greatest invention.