New "offroad experience" in central Scotland

[yodagoat]

I was luky enough to be invited along as a guinea pig for a new Offroad Experience that has opened in Central Scotland not far from Peebles. I've done a wee write up of it here.

https://yodagoat.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/off-road-with-motorrad-centrali.html

TL;DR Take a GS offroad for £60.


Cheers


Mike
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[P.]

What a useless bike

I'm still under the impression these are bought by people as they "wanna do riding round countries init" and then attempt to take them off road.

[Snowdonia Rider]

Fair play. Nice and honest about them. Nice to actually see a GS go offroad lol.
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[thx1138]

I've ridden a GS "off road" in Scotland, well I took my GS through Galloway forest toll road anyway

[Rogerborg]

Thanks for the write up and comedy vid.

Is it all 1200GSes then? I'll give that a miss - never mind picking them up, I'd need a stepladder to get on them.

Bit curious if they don't have any G650GS Sertaos, but I guess they're really just interested in selling the big, high margin bikes with all the extras. Fair play to them, at least they're putting their bikes where their marketing is.
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[thx1138]

I need help getting the Sertao off me when I crash it off road!

some of my friends green lane Tennerre's

but personally, I find 650's too big

[yodagoat]

thx1138 - Aye, i agree. A wee 250 or something would be much better. But I'm still glad I took the chance of a shot of falling off someone else's GS rather than my own. There's quite a few places you can sneak into if you're careful.
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Rogerborg - I don't know if they are planning on getting different BMs like the serato or F800 etc. I think if you allready have one of the smaller beemers they will let you on the course with it.

G - They might not have been TKCs but it was a knobbly road tyre that looked like a TKC.

Paddy - they're just missunderstood. I do loads of camping all over the place and a GS seem to handle the roads up north a bit better and is more chuckable that a VFR or something.
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[Albigularis]

[yodagoat]

Albigularis - You can always ask. You're not going on the road after all.
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[Albigularis]

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[yodagoat]

Albigularis - Mention that you read about their "dirty demos" on my blog. It might swing it for you.

G - Surely you can, at least for the older GS and KTM adventures etc. I dunno why you'd want to though. Better off with a lighter bike for going mental on. The idea behind this is to give folk a wee taster of offroad riding on a big heavy bike.
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[G]

Had a look at at pictures of the KTM950SE, which is a good chunk lighter and most have not so knobbly tyres.

One of the reasons you don't get car tyre designed like motocross tyres is the weight and power would just rip them apart if they did get traction I would guess - and that being the case, presumably starts to be an issue with bike tyres - they might dig in and grip, but having to shift a third of a ton of bike and rider with a 100hp kick may not be great for the rubber!

[Rogerborg]

[Aff]

[Vracktal]

The 12GS is the Range Rover of bikes. Yes it can go offroad, BUT AT WHAT COST.

I'd much rather be on the G650 x-country or a Sertao something.
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[Albigularis]