Adventure Bike Rider Forum

Mike54 wrote:For posers only.

Mike why do you say that, I am building 701 adventure bike with the Omega rally kit.
The bikes I build are used for the purpose they are built for ie off road adventure travel.
I built a 690 adventure rally bike in 2013 and have used it for a number of off road trips to Morocco & Iceland & trail
Riding in Mid Wales.
Back in 2009 I built a BMW 650 XC with the Tourech Kit, the guy who has the bike now is in the middle of Africa.
Rally Raid have not yet developed a full kit for the 701 so I looked elsewhere for the kit, Nomad have a nice tower but there extra tanks are just Roto tanks bolted to the crash bars.
MSR have the tower & screen but no tanks.
There is a company in Greece with a full kit but wanted payment up front but could not deliver for 2 months.
I contacted Thomas at Omega in SA who was very helpful, as my kit was the 20th kit of a run of 20 he did me a good deal to fill the production run.
The GDP to SA Ran was a much better exchange rate than SA Ran to USD which is the norm for export, the export price is nett of SA VAT.
The air freight was £180 with Virgin Atlantic,
The 701 I bought was a dealer ex demo bike with 500 miles, with the Omega kit the whole bike stands me at less than a new 690 with the RR Kit.
I think the possers are the guys who buy the big adventure bikes and won't even take them on a gravel road or out in the rain.
As I said my 701 will be used for purpose not to pose on, first trip is Morocco next Month.

WELL SAID !! That bike is the Dog's Danglers!!

Just the final cost though? Interesting to hear about Ross Rider build up

I thought ... What % of a KTM450 Rally money one wonders?
But - Less than a 690RR?!

Decals fitted today

Lovely looking bike, pose all you want and put two fingers up to anyone that is just too green with envy to admit it :whistle: :whistle:

That's a cracking looking bike (thumbs)

I keep looking at this, its a 2009 KTM 530 with 3000km. The seller is asking €5000, not sure if thats cheap or not.

Ignore MIKE, I`m sure he is green with envy. Looks great!

Looks awesome

If I give you the wool will you make me one too! (thumbs) (thumbs) (thumbs)

EDIT - f***, it should be in the conditional; if I gave you the wool would you make me one too? :whistle:

Regs

Simon

Lovely looking bike (thumbs)