Adventure Bike Rider Forum

Lucky you , have a beer or two for me guys. Damn shame to miss it

Last Adventure.............riding home from the Midland, after 2 nights on the rum with you Lovell :whistle:

And I didnt get a greenie. :sick: :sick:

I went to B&Q and back last weekend which is about 4 minutes up the road! I think I need to pay close attention to this thread.

adimurp wrote:(enormous sense of relief...) If you're planning anymore overseas trips please fire me an invite mate

Haha no greenie business though :sick:

Please no!

peejay wrote:Last Adventure.............riding home from the Midland, after 2 nights on the rum with you Lovell :whistle:

And I didnt get a greenie. :sick: :sick:

I know nothing gov honest

Hey Big Jim,

What a brilliant topic - the fact is every trip shpuld be a big adventure. OK I did something like the Morocco trip but in a Renault 4, when Mrs S and myself followed her so-called 'professional' field trip - they camped in a Wadi that, sure enough, was flooded out due to rainfall about 100 kms away. Serioulsy, if it wasn't for Mrs S's presence of mind they would have ended up in the Sunday papers as another trajedy!

What amazed me at the time, 1993/4, was that the desert was full (well, so it seemed) with twerps in huge 4x4s all completely useless in the terrain, while our humble little Renault 4 simply bounced along across the rocks, sand, anything really. And when it bent there was always someone there to bend it back again - a lesson for us all perhaps!

But the best adventure was many years before, about 1973, with my best mates in a camp site near Towyn in North Wales - no fancy clobber, no Adventure bikes, no worries, lots of fun and memories - nuff said?

Cheers

Simon

My limited bike travels have been from Northern Ireland up to Skye last winter over 4 days and over to Bavaria for a week in April. I started biking in 2007 while living in India for a couple of years (I won't bore people with the photos yet again!). My first bike adventure was riding my brand new RE Bullet home through Kolkata traffic - I'd never been on a bike before and had to get the dealer to show me how it worked!! Scary but loved every minute :laugh: .

Rode from Kolkata (Calcutta) where I lived to Darjeeling in a single day, (15hrs), and also did Kolkata - Varanasi which took about the same. Had a great time knocking about on my Bullet and commuted on it every day even though I had a company car and full time driver.

After India I lived in Qatar for a year and bought an R1200GS (cause the dealer had no KTM Adventures left ). Got in some basic desert trails and gravel tracks while there.

As far as travel 'not on a bike goes' ... most of Europe, Turkey, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Kuwait (where I've been this week), and the US once a long time ago. Have driven in most of these.

Hi Simon,

Great thanks mate, the old renault 4, ah that brings back memories. We used them on the farm where I grew up. They would go most places a landrover would and about the same price as a set of landrover tyres and we could get a sheep in the back :laugh: :laugh: so I'm told anyway :laugh: :laugh:..

I'm pleased all turned out well in the Wadi, could have been a whole different story..

Thanks mate

The trips I seem to remember most are the ones where there were a start and finish point and no plans inbetween. Sitting on a cross channel ferry with a mate(Simon as it happens) and having to ask what day it was of the staff smacks of a good time. I quite like the solitude and time out of riding alone(billy no mates) but usually am heading for a pal's or event somewhere. Best times have been in France and Belgium but that was due to the company of like minded souls.p.s. I had a renault 4 van,with grab handles on the front wings,vary handy when reverse failed for pushing it into parking spaces,we banger raced it in the end.