Thread: Motorbike hunting setups

Recently brought a honda ctx200 to get further into a couple of places i go. Interested to see how other people have set up their bikes. I planned to just loosen my pack straps and have it rest on the seat but the straps arnt long enough and its a pain riding with my overnight pack weight on my back, so im going to mount small plastic bin on the rear tray for my pack to go in. Keen to see other set ups or ideas.

Thats how we do it at work, just a bin screwed onto the back carrier, use a plywood base and some tek screws.

Thicker stronger bins with more flexible plastic are best, for when the bike falls over sideways. Drill a few holes in the sides of the bin so you can tie your pack down with bungy cord. Don't go for those bins with lids that tend to be thin and brittle.

Originally Posted by longshot

Thats how we do it at work, just a bin screwed onto the back carrier, use a plywood base and some tek screws.

Thicker stronger bins with more flexible plastic are best, for when the bike falls over sideways. Drill a few holes in the sides of the bin so you can tie your pack down with bungy cord. Don't go for those bins with lids that tend to be thin and brittle.

This was pretty well my plan, iv found a small charcoal bbq cover on aliexpress for bugger all was going to bungy cord that over the bag as a cover and to hold it in place.

For up to 10kg pack, as long as you have the bungy crossing the pack in at least two seperate places, the pack won’t bounce out. Basically the holes in the tray just have to be low enough that the bungy pulls the pack downward.

Depending on the difficulty in riding to get where you are going, attaching the pack to the bike makes for less control over the bike. You really need to be able to get the arse of the pack to rest on the bike seat.

We used to bring animals out whole on the bike. Take the rear legs off at the hock, put short ropes through the hocks and pull down onto the engine bash plate. Lie the animal over the tank and handlebars. Use a long length of bungy to criss cross from handle bar to handlebar to stabilise the animal, but still permit you to steer bike.
Basic tools and tyre repair were stored under the rear carrier in a built in plastic tray. Having a small bike pump is really useful if it rains and you need to change tyre pressures when out the back to get up and down steep slippery slopes.

I took it out for its first trip a couple of weekends ago and managed to bag a hind, i just tied it onto the rear rack was a rather uncomfortable trip out because i had to sit quite away forward and my pack was sitting up on the deer. I would normally bone them out on the hill it was only because i got it a few hundred meters from the bike i decided to take the lot.

I have a DR200, gun rack on the handle bars, pvc tube with screw cap for tie downs and tools under front light, and ply back carrier what I cart whole deer out on.
I just find you need to tie the deer on good so they can't move around while riding, if you do that it will be not a bad ride out depending on the size of the animal.

i use a DR200, i have a small plywood tray bolted to the rear carrier, i put my day bag on this tied on with bungies and wear my main pack with my rifle strapped to the side of it, with the suppressor removed it stays low enough to not get caught on any over hanging branches. My pack rests on my day bag taking weight off my shoulders, i have to lay my bike on its side a bit to get it under logs so i do not have a bin on the back carrier as that gets in the way while sliding under logs. i have also seen bikes using a small LED light on the front instead of the old round headlight, the old light can be then removed and the spaced used for a bike tool kit or what ever else you can fit in this spot. If you put your pack on the rear carrier beware it will be prone to flip over going up hills due to the extra weight of it that far back on the rear, i find it best just to wear the pack. My mate uses a CTX200 and it has a lower gearing then my DR and is a better bike for the tight stuff.

If the bike is primarily for hunting, GEAR IT DOWN. They all come with 13 or 14 tooth front sprockets. Poke a 12 tooth on it and thank me later

I use/used to use/ going to blow the cobwebs off my xr200



I'm probably going to make a "3" sided alloy box about the size of a crate with the open side being towards me so acts like a small seat to tie stuff into

Originally Posted by XR500

If the bike is primarily for hunting, GEAR IT DOWN. They all come with 13 or 14 tooth front sprockets. Poke a 12 tooth on it and thank me later

oh ok, i will look into that.

Once spotted a hunter with a big smile, pack on, heading in off the Napier-Taupo on a little kid's motorbike. Very clever. If you need to stop and carry it you can

early seventies culling down at Mangataniwha behind Willow flat we were given a honda CT 90 one of the early ones with high and low ratio one of the boys decided to modify it so he could put his dog on the back - now the hunter who was cook for the day was allowed the bike to get back earlier to have tea ready - so he bolted a thiabendasol 20 litre container to the back with the top cut out - taught his mutt of a golden retriever to sit in it and transport for dog - well he proudly sat the mutt in the container and set of down the logging road from camp - a minute later from just around the corner was a howl from hell and a loud crashing sound and mutt appears back at camp limping - mutt decided the mode of transport was not for him and bailed off feeding his back pins into back wheel and bringing honda down with a thud -end of experiment - we took the plastic container off as 3 of us had trouble getting on to go trout fishing down the Waiau River - honda had to go back to FS workshop at Rotorua to be repaired for broken spokes - we got a shit note from workshop that a CT 90 was a one person only vehicle - I still to this day love those little hondas -

Back in the days when we lived in the bush doing possums we had a Suzuki Quad (still have it 10 years later). It was good for getting to places but had to walk the hills to do the line.


We tried a 2 wheeler which got us further on the line but we (I) was restricted by what I could carry out - traps in the back pack!!! and not so many bodies.

Those DR 200's aren't too bad. Bloody heavy for what they are though. All modern bikes run stupidly small quantities of engine/trans oil, so don't skip service intervals.
My original XR500 ran 2 Litres. My 1990 XR 250 ran 1.8 litres and 6 grease nipples. My last XR 250 (a 2002) ran 850 mls of engine/trans oil and no grease nipples. Needless to say it got the drill and tap business to keep all the swing arm bits well lubricated, and made pushing water and mud out of the pro link rear suspension so much easier than just waiting for it to rust up and need replacing.

The Yammie Ag 100's and Suzi 185 mudbugs won out as the most popular for hauling deer out of the hills, as they had nice low seats. It made paddling along with your feet in the tight stuff so much easier. 12 Horsepower when brand new was never going to make the Suzuki mudbugs fly up those hills, but with a new tyre, superlow tyre pressure and very low engine gearing they hauled silly weights over some pretty nasty terrain.