Adventurers

[Rach81]

After getting the idea in my head that I want to go adventuring next year, I found this website and I've been reading it most of the afternoon.

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/index.shtml

Loads of good stuff about bike travel.

Now I just have to decide where I want to go, I would like to see the Eclipse somewhere around India next July.

Ordered Jupiters Travels, Lois Pryces' book and bought 2 others in town today.

[Hooli]

see ya on their forum, loads n loads of info there aint there? i got lots of great advice for my abandoned tour of europe from them.

[a boardman]

have you seen this website if you want a guided tour adventure.

think i saved it from a previous thread on here, so dont know what the company or prices are like to others.

http://www.hctravel.com/index.html

[RizzoTheRat]

Chris Scott's "Adventure Motorcycling Handbook" is well worth a read too. Keep meaning to buy Lois on the Loose read some exerpts and it looks pretty good. Jupiters Travels is good but his followup is nowhere near as good.

Mate of mine is riding his Super Tenere to Israel in a couple of months, leaving it there, and then heading back next year to carry on round the med. I'm jelous.

Oh and if you want some other good reading take a look at these two form the Adventure rider forum

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26...
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23...

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Thursday 14th August 19:33

[Ruttager]

Great site! Thanks for the link!

[uriel]

While you're over at Advrider, I'd check out these threads:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13...
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83...

[King Herald]

RizzoTheRat said:

Chris Scott's "Adventure Motorcycling Handbook" is well worth a read too. Keep meaning to buy Lois on the Loose read some exerpts and it looks pretty good. Jupiters Travels is good but his followup is nowhere near as good.

Yes, Riding High just seemed to be mainly a regurgitation of everything in Jupiter's travels. there were some new bits, such as the true details of the girl who rode with him for miles, but whom he dumped in Malaysia, but I was a bit disappointed.

The book of his latest circumnavigation, 'Dreaming of Jupiter', is pretty good.

[RizzoTheRat]

uriel said:

While you're over at Advrider, I'd check out these threads:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13...
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83...

Good call, first one's the other one I was trying to find, and the second one is in the process of ensuring I get nothing usefull done this evening . There's some stunning photos on there. Makes my attempts at bike photos look a bit pathetic.

[Twit]

Horizons is the site to look at. When I was stuck on the trip I used to stick stuff on there and get answers normally that day and I have met a lot of people who are now mates through that site and overland stuff.

Also... You can waste days on it!!!

[Rubin215]

Have you read the Dan Walsh book yet?

"These are the days that must happen to you."

It's really only a collection of his magazine articles from the last 8 years or so, but it's nicely off beat.

Doesn't give much good advice though!

[jonny_c]

Advrider has some breathtaking pics - they update aswell, makes me want to stick the 9-5 where the sun don't shine and go ride (cliche i know). Make's my stint into the Pyrenees a few months back look like a trip to the shops! Some good advice to be had in the forums.

[Talya]

a boardman said:

have you seen this website if you want a guided tour adventure.

think i saved it from a previous thread on here, so dont know what the company or prices are like to others.

http://www.hctravel.com/index.html

Oh my god that is sooooo expensive!! I always wanted to do a holiday like that but £3000... each?!?!?

[Ruttager]

failing that you could also do:

http://www.nicksanders.com/expeditions/timbuktu.ht...

still a hefty amount of cash though but your well looked after.

[Rach81]

Its cool to read about other chicks going off on their own, it'd be loads easier to do it in a little car, I get tired driving back up to Scotland, last time I had to have a sleep in my car near Glasgow. (and I'd be able to take more stuff with me)

But going on a bike would be so much more challenging!

[Twit]

Don't ever pay to go on guided tours!!!! You don't need too, its a much better laugh on your own and you meet way more people! All you are paying for is somebody else to read a map and plan the trip! Also it introduces a schedule which is the last thing you want, the whole point is to have the ability to get lost for a few days and then find your way back on a general route!!! I really really don't get the guided tour thing, its about adventurous as riding to the local shops!

Rach - on the horizons site, check out the meets and go to one, the big annual one has just gone but Lois, Tiff etc are always there for a chat as everyone is. Just go for it, I know a fair few women (and I met a lot) who have just gone off on their own and every one has had a great time!

[surfsofa]

Another link to add to this useful collection...

http://www.lazymotorbike.eu/

[Ruttager]

Wow I was up till around 3am reading those threads above and others.. regretting it today though. stuck in a class trying to learn c++ but really looking at the advrider site.

[Rach81]

They're fanatstic aren't they! I've got the day off and it's looking really miserable out so I know what I'll be doing all day

Seen a black & gold Serow, need to raise £2500 somehow

[RizzoTheRat]

Any bike can do a trip like that, just google Sjaak Lucassen. Mind you some are probaby easier than others

[King Herald]

RizzoTheRat said:

Any bike can do a trip like that, just google Sjaak Lucassen. Mind you some are probaby easier than others

I read a story of a guy 'riding' across Zaire many years ago, in mud just like that. After falling about 20 times in one day, and having to unpack the bike each time to get it upright again, he said he just finally fell to his knees crying like a baby, in total frustration, when he eventually fell over, AND got a puncture, in two feet of mud, a hundred miles from anywhere of use.

But, as Ted Simon says, 'The interruptions are the journey'