Thread: Adventure Bikes

Originally Posted by ishoot10s

@kiwijames I was in India 2009 with work and saw a nice looking RE straight out of the 50’s and I said to my local colleague “some ones done a lovely job restoring that” and his head starts doing the sideways bobbing thing, “Oh no, that is brand new, we still make them in India” why change a good thing?

Like a number of things the entire Enfield factory was bought and shipped to India. They still make them brand spanking new.


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Originally Posted by faregame

Anyone using a UBCO?

Wow, interesting concept, much more of a robust package than an ebike.

Originally Posted by Chop3r

is that a c10 BSA ?

1948 BSA M20

Honda hornet is what I want but life has gotten in the way of replacing my old bike.

Some silly woman pulled out in front of me and then drove off.


As for an adventure bike a drz 400 would be too heavy.

But the drz 250 is a lot lighter and very cheap. Not going to be winning on the hp front but riding it fast will be fun and probably not going to be painful from speeding tickets any time soon

Originally Posted by faregame

Anyone using a UBCO?

Had one at my last place, we won it as a spot prize from fonterra, was reasonably capable but hopeless in anything that resembled proper mud, just didn't have the grunt or tyres size to get out of certain situations. Was ok for fine weather following cows to the shed etc and we used it mainly as transport for the calf rearers to get around on, go home for breaks etc if they needed as there was never a proper bike free for them to use

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Honda hornet is what I want but life has gotten in the way of replacing my old bike.

Some silly woman pulled out in front of me and then drove off.


As for an adventure bike a drz 400 would be too heavy.

But the drz 250 is a lot lighter and very cheap. Not going to be winning on the hp front but riding it fast will be fun and probably not going to be painful from speeding tickets any time soon

The 900 Hornet is a unique looking bike. Chuck the two raised pipes and fit a 4 into 1 short GP pipe. They are a little buzzy and short a smidgen of low down grunt but very usable and comfortable. Go the Drz 400 over the 250 otherwise you'll regret it after a few weeks as there is a reason for the 250 selling cheap. No substitute for cubes...

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.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

My uncle runs tours around Northern India on Royal Enfields. They like them.

Old man did a tour up there last year and loved it. He's keen to go back in two or three years so I might have to join him.

Well I was on my way out to Botany to kick the tyres on their demo Africa Twin and I called in to the HD shop on the way, to ask when we could expect the Pan America to be released here. Got told it’s another 14 months away.

So, I carry on out to Botany Honda and have a snorkel around on this...

2019 CRF 1000 Africa Twin DCT (basically an auto)...





Wow. Just wow. So much so that I started looking seriously for a used low k’s one and found a 2016 shop demo bike with only 300, yeah, literally 300 k’s on it at Casbolts in Chch. They must’ve been trying to get rid of it because they’d knocked 2.5 grand off it and loaded it with 7.5 grand worth of bling. So now it’s mine, and I’m loving it.



Still got to sell the Fat Bob...