Been Lurking over on http://advrider.com and looking at the photos in the PIC section.
Addicting stuff. Very addicting stuff.
One thing I’ve noticed are the Sport Bikes with All Terrain Tires. Interesting. Very interesting.
Then there are the SUPERMOTO bikes. Dirtbikes with Street Tires.
Dirt on Street…
Street on Dirt…
Is this motorcycling’s version of being gay?
Because I’m digging all of this stuff.
If that’s gay…
Given speed bumps, pot holes, crumby streets under construction, and other rough crud that you find on urban streets these day I could see where rain tires on a bike with a long suspension could be handy.
Multistrada, Explorer, Tiger 800, Tenere, GS1200, DRZ, KTM 990, yeah dirtbikes on the street suck. I can’t imagine having 150 HP in a 475# package with traction control and ABS. Crossing continents like that Star Wars guy. The grey area of street and dirt ability is a horrible idea. Dirt or street, stick to one or the other enduro man! 😉
Now if adding a knobbie to the rear of my Z will extend the riding season into winter,……I will stay inside. It is cold in winter and I am no Jesse James.
Run what you brung.
My favorite line I’ve seen on that site was that every bike was an adventure bike, you just had to be willing to ride.
Well, Ducati invented Hypermoto. Kinda like Supermoto but reversed. Dirt Tires on a Sports Bike… You can buy it from the Factory like that.
Here’s what makes this Enduro stuff cool: You can Go Anywhere. You might not go FAST, but you can go.
As for the ADVriders guys… Oh yeah, a Motoguzzi rolling through washed out roads, dude standing on the pegs…
A Cafe Racer with bags and All Terrains.
That’s the idea. Go Everywhere.
Man… That speaks to me.
I am loving my Sports Touring bike. I’ll not give that up until the day I have to give up riding. But this Adventure Riding – not necessarily about the bikes, but the idea of taking what you have, and just going man. Just Go!
I love that.
Nope, you are just bike-curious.
That’s funny right there.
I love my WR250X! (Dirtbike with 17″ street tires.)
Like Hwy-9 from the South BayArea over to the Coast on Sundays. Living in CA I _need_ an earthquake bike, something that can haul me out of a smoking hole in the ground and across some mountains to the beach – or over the granite Sierras to a Free State. I had a nicely set-up XR650L for dual-sport but sold it to go Enduro racing – now older (and tired-out) I want a bike like that with a license plate again…
A bunch of guys I knew who used to frequent rec.moto.dirt a long time ago gravitated over to ADV there.
I wish they still built US street legal 2 stroke enduros. A modern version of the old DT360/400. Or with the old YZ490 motor(liquid cooled though). You can get a “supermoto” DT125 outside of the US, but I want bigger. Super light weight, and plenty of power for tearing around town. A rim/tire/sprocket swap and your nearly there. I wouldn’t want to run it long distance, but for tearing up the neighborhood….
On half the roads around here a enduro will run away from a sportbike- potholes, wet leaves, gravel, broken pavement- all of this is bad news for a track derived sportbike.