Greetings from the south island of New Zealand

[Kiwiscoot]

Hi,
I currently own a 2018 Royal Enfield Himalayan, which is my first adventure style bike. The bike is well suited to New Zealand road conditions as our speed limit is 100kph and the bike seems to cope well with my 6'4.5" frame and the luggage. Before this one I had a Honda Deauville and scooters and has been riding for 24 years.

I hope to learn and make a positive contribution to this site. Just back from my first adventure trip to Central Otago and it was an epic trip. Even thought I had lost the bike at one stage during the numerous river crossings when the water pushed the bike over on me. Some slide shows of my trip.

[crofty]

Welcome to the forum, I've been following your bike mods on advrider. New Zealand looks great to ride.
A few of us have Himalayans on this forum but most of us haven,t had them long and its winter here so not many long trip stories yet.
Keep posting the videos.

[Kiwiscoot]

Thanks. Yes I'm making the most of the good riding time here.

[diggermanbob]

Hello and welcome to the forum , I was out in South Island last year , great place to live and ride ,

[geoham]

Hello and welcome to ABR from Northern Ireland

[DavidS]

Welcome from the deep south....of England.

As per diggermanbob, my wife and I did a four week trip to NZ in February and March.
Planning another month in South Island next winter with hopefully a road bike hire in Nelson and a trail ride in Queenstown...but no bungee.

Can’t wait. Absoluteky loved the country and people, especially finding a mobile coffee van wherever you are.

[Kiwiscoot]

Anybody know why my photos get rotated when I put them in a post. Both these photos appear right way up on my computer in different programs. Something somewhere I'm missing?

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[SHarper]

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I found that even when the photos are the right way up, if I rotate them through 360 degrees and them post them...

[daveuprite]

Anybody know why my photos get rotated when I put them in a post. Both these photos appear right way up on my computer in different programs. Something somewhere I'm missing?
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It's because you live in New Zealand, obviously

[Kiwiscoot]

It's because you live in New Zealand, obviously

Ha must be the fact that I live Down Under.