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 Posted: 16:44 - 16 Sep 2010  Post subject: New Magazine |
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New magazine all about Adventure Bike Touring
https://www.adventurebikerider.com/
Good articles appearing and excellent forum dedicated to bike adventure touring.
A lot of more experienced long distance riders contribute and there are less "125's to Wales" type tales , so be polite youngsters and you may learn something 
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| Posted: 11:26 - 18 Sep 2010 Post subject: Re: New Magazine |
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Had a look, saw a " What Does Your Mobile Ringtone Say About You?! " thread and left.
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Sigh... wind your necks in kiddies..
BCF is seen as the 125'ers forum and this particular section has more guys testing the water on 125's , and good luck to them, but...
A lot more experienced tourers are popping up on this new magazines forum as it is not yet as currently full of people posting..."I am gonna do that one day" as most other places are.
In my far off youth myself and my mates used to travel extensively on a mix of bikes from 50CC to 250CC with L-Plates, and didn't think it was anything special. 30 years ago it was normal. But back then when a lot more people rode distances on smallish bikes that was seen as normal, not something extraordinary.
These days I am in a bike club that does quite a few rallies and camping trips in a year and with junior members on 125's (with L plates) and they manage to get their bikes and camping gear on longish trips to the destination and home again on separate routes to the rest of us, from places like Lake Vyrnywy to Derby for example, with no issue they also think it is normal as we encourage them to do it. It's how we learnt.
Times change, but not the act of actually getting on a bike, and riding it somewhere, and the fact that some people are actually still doing it is great , but if you are on a ped or a learner are you gonna be satisfied with just always treading the standard path...
It's just a link to a new magazine, it's dedicated to Bike Travel, it is a specialist area it's not full of ads for the latest must have... the forum... yeah it's like here in one way , it's attracting it's fantasists,pedants and train spotters , but if it's not for you it's not for you.
However I do find that very many people on there actually do ride regularly, I have met several of them myself over the years in far flung places and no-one yet gets off on writing "ride" reports that feature the same pics for consecutive years and different locations 
If you took offence at my original post, tough there was none meant... find it funny none of the 125 guys who actually have started their journeying and are no doubt plotting and planning their next trips, now they know what is possible, have so far taken any umbrage...s'funny that innit. 
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| Grazoid wrote: | Sigh... wind your necks in kiddies..
BCF is seen as the 125'ers forum and this particular section has more guys testing the water on 125's , and good luck to them, but...
A lot more experienced tourers are popping up on this new magazines forum as it is not yet as currently full of people posting..."I am gonna do that one day" as most other places are.
In my far off youth myself and my mates used to travel extensively on a mix of bikes from 50CC to 250CC with L-Plates, and didn't think it was anything special. 30 years ago it was normal. But back then when a lot more people rode distances on smallish bikes that was seen as normal, not something extraordinary.
These days I am in a bike club that does quite a few rallies and camping trips in a year and with junior members on 125's (with L plates) and they manage to get their bikes and camping gear on longish trips to the destination and home again on separate routes to the rest of us, from places like Lake Vyrnywy to Derby for example, with no issue they also think it is normal as we encourage them to do it. It's how we learnt.
Times change, but not the act of actually getting on a bike, and riding it somewhere, and the fact that some people are actually still doing it is great , but if you are on a ped or a learner are you gonna be satisfied with just always treading the standard path...
It's just a link to a new magazine, it's dedicated to Bike Travel, it is a specialist area it's not full of ads for the latest must have... the forum... yeah it's like here in one way , it's attracting it's fantasists,pedants and train spotters , but if it's not for you it's not for you.
However I do find that very many people on there actually do ride regularly, I have met several of them myself over the years in far flung places and no-one yet gets off on writing "ride" reports that feature the same pics for consecutive years and different locations
If you took offence at my original post, tough there was none meant... find it funny none of the 125 guys who actually have started their journeying and are no doubt plotting and planning their next trips, now they know what is possible, have so far taken any umbrage...s'funny that innit. |
Again, you are coming across as a teeny, tiny bit of a berk.
Did you read back what you've written? That smug, superior attitude is what puts a lot of the young 'uns off doing anything interesting. I'm not really interested in your biking pedigree, as this is the internet - so anyone can say anything they like, making claimed experience pretty much valueless. All that really matters is how you come across in this little virtual playground.
If BCF is the '125ers forum', why post to knock '125ers'? Odd choice. Just bugger off all quiet and dignified like. |
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I dont think there is much a GS1200 can do which my XR cant..... in the end lol |
90 MPH on an autobahn....
Great bikes Bandit's ... but that is really a GSF1200
An R1200GS is most probably just as bad as you bike would be sustaining a journey with adult sized rider and pillion and luggage over the same distance.
125's are fun and to be honest most out perform my old KLR250, but different strokes for different folks. I have spent in the past a fair bit of time travelling on a DT100 with camping gear... yup a 100CC bike, which was all I could afford and it was shite. Fun at the time, as it had more power than a pushbike and got me further with my mates than we had been before.
Keep on doing it but to be honest I feel sad reading some of the reports as it shows how cloistered kids are now. To be just discovering some of the things you guys who are in your teens and twenties are, shows how society has changed.
When I were a lad... cue brass band... we rode hundreds of miles every weekend, starting of on 'peds then on an assortment of bikes up to 250(which a lot of modern 125's would leave standing ) , camping where we could , going to bike rallies and mixing with the older bikers and a lot of the "backwoods" stuff we knew we had learnt in the many scout and cadet groups from our pre-teens. Having an engine just meant we could go further afield, and some of us didn't stop in the UK and kept travelling further and further.
However some of the things you pick up with that kind of background is , you are not inventing the wheel , your just the last in a long line to do this, you also never stop learning from those younger than you and those older than you. Opinions are like arses, every one has one. And most important of all, if you see your self as more important than anyone else expect to get laughed at
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RE forum - meh. Might as well hijack https://www.advrider.com/forums/index.php 
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