Inspirational but cruel ride reports

[Anonymous]

DanD recently bought a KLR650 and absolutely loves it. We did a ride the other day up around the Allyn River and we were talking about how we would like to do more adventure rides.

So I started looking around on the web to find some popular adventure rides other than the ones I already knew about. I got onto the advrider forum which had some Australian rides but this was not what got my attention.

I started looking at the ride reports posted from overseas riders. I was absolutely fascinated by them. I found that I loved reading the reports and looking at the pictures of the rides in Israel, Canada and one guy who went everywhere. There was even a bit about a 24-year old girl who just set off on her own across America.

Reading these reports inspired me and in the long term I can definetly see DanD and I doing something like that (if I can get him on a plane that is). I say long term because I wouldn’t even consider it while our kids are young and plus we would need to save for years, but what an experience it would be.

So if you need some inspiration to get out riding, even if it is in our own backyard, take a look at some of the reports.

The website is http://www.advrider.com. I don’t normally plug other forums on OBT and their Australian section of the site is nothing compared to OBT, but the international stuff is definetly worthwhile.

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

Yeh Kylie there are some awesome reports in there alright, I especially like the more remote ones around places like africa and the middle east.

[PaulMember]

Yes I read an awsome one by some guys who rode up the West coast of Africa.
Heaps of planning needed though.

[PaulMember]

This is a report I did on Tasmania, it was inspired by the abovementioned thread at ADVrider.
As you will see I am not a very good adventurer, yet.
Map of Tassy ride

[Anonymous]

Yes, I am thinking in the meantime Australia is the go anyway.

However I am in two minds about it.

1. I would love to do longer rides and see things that I have never seen before.
2. I would love for the kids to see the things that I want to see as well.

The only way that I could win with these issues would be to wait until our youngest is legally able to ride pillion and then take both of them along with us. How cool would that be? The family riding around Australia.

However there are obvious disadvantages to this.

1. I am not real keen on having my kids as pillions. I don’t have any dramas with risking myself on a bike but I don’t think that I could make the decision to risk them.
2. Pillioning is uncomfortable. I pillioned behind DanD on our ride on Sunday (gasp, shock, horror) and I was a good pillion but it get’s real uncomfortable when you can’t move around much and you are on it for a long time. I think my kids would whinge too much.
3. Kids don’t find sightseeing as interesting as what we do so they would get bored real quick.

Dilemma’s, dilemma’s. Luckily I have years to worry about it anyway :laugh:

[PaulMember]

If you decide to go for a ride in Tassy let me know, there is still lots of unfinished ‘business’ there for me.

Thanks for posting this thread Kylie, it made me read my report again and brought back those great memories I forgot I had

[Dwayne OMember]

Yeah, Mouth watering inspiration

I am still reading some of those reports on the site weekly, great adventures, sometimes crazy even :laugh: and some awsome pics to be admired!!!

It is ok to dream I suppose

[dennis da menaceMember]

heres an idea….

ill take a crew of bulls on dirt bikes,

yous guys get down there on the motards/adventure beasts…

we’ll all ride around tassie for a week or so and meet at pubs or equivalent accommodations for foods and

……to get drunked. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

what a trip that would be!!!

[Dwayne OMember]

My head aches already just thinking about that one Spidy :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Jeffrey SmithMember]

I was thinking of heading off on a trip somewhere during my 5 weeks of australia days next month but haven’t yet decided where to go or for how long. Tassie is on the possibles list now I reckon.

[GregMember]

KD I can give you 6 to 8 one day and two rides with directions from your place adventure style whenever you want easy to follow maps with directions fuel stops etc

There is a massive adventure ride with limited numbers already in the works, myself and Boulder are hard planning and it is a two week ride. Bring on June 2011

TB

[Anonymous]

menace wrote:

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heres an idea….

ill take a crew of bulls on dirt bikes,

yous guys get down there on the motards/adventure beasts…

we’ll all ride around tassie for a week or so and meet at pubs or equivalent accommodations for foods and

……to get drunked. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

what a trip that would be!!!

That sounds absolutely fantastic Menace. My problem is I don’t know if I could do that until after we took the kids to Tassie because we have been saying for a couple of years now that we would like to take them. I’m not sure how guilty I would feel. Maybe we might need to go on round 2.

[Anonymous]

Trailboss wrote:

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KD I can give you 6 to 8 one day and two rides with directions from your place adventure style whenever you want easy to follow maps with directions fuel stops etc

There is a massive adventure ride with limited numbers already in the works, myself and Boulder are hard planning and it is a two week ride. Bring on June 2011

TB

Actually DanD and I are thinking of doing a 1 week ride for our anniversary this year. I would like to go out to Cameron’s Corner but I don’t know if a week is long enough and I don’t want to have to fly through everywhere just to be back in time. I would rather have time to stop and look at the sights. Another idea was the Warrumbungles because that looks interesting and another idea was to go up north towards the Clarence Valley to see the Convict Tunnel and some more?

I don’t know where yet but I reckon at some point in time I would like to do Cameron’s Corner. The problem is that I have these ideas of where I want to go but I can’t afford to do all of them right now unfortunately.

[alanMember]

check out trilriderz site if your interested in tasmania think they got a ride on in 50days for a weak hope i don t upset anyone for puting it on this website but would love to get there one day

[GregMember]

KD next time I am there I will give you a look at the adventure / trail ride bible, rides everywhere you can think of all with directions, and things to see on the way

TB

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