Cycle World on Adventure Bikes

[trider143]

See http://www.cycleworld.com/2012/08/23...arison-review/

Reviews MTS 1200, Tiger, Tenere and a Guzzi.

Regarding the Tiger, this "Con" quote made me chuckle: "Total poser when the road ends and the trail begins". Of course I am biased.

[nhbubba]

Some days I think I might be the only 'adventure' bike buyer out there that just doesn't give a damn about off-road performance. Every one of these SUV comparisons is a turn-off.

All I wanted was an up-right sport-tourer under 1L that I could afford. The fact that she is naked below the waist and looks good carrying my bags doesn't hurt... actually come to think of it that rarely hurts!

[Chippertheripper]

So stop referring to it as an adventure bike and rest easy.

[nhbubba]

Done: half-naked middle-weight sport-tourer

That works.

[e30addict]

If adventure bikes are the SUV's of the motorcycle world the Tiger 800 is the BMW X6M



I'll take mine in black!

[sveesix]

Now if they only made the 800 with a decent suspension.

[e30addict]

Now if they only made the 800 with a decent suspension.

It doesn't piss me off like it used to.

[Garandman]

If adventure bikes are the SUV's of the motorcycle world the Tiger 800 is the BMW 135

FFY

[Garandman]

Tough Bikes for Suburban Adventurers NYT

These bikes look ready to powerslide the Siberian Road of Bones, ford Chile’s Bio-Bio River or go mano-a-horn with an enraged Namibian rhino.

In reality, their riders are probably lawyers, creative directors and investment bankers, headed out for nothing more exotic than Sunday breakfast.

A life-threatening breakfast, to be sure, including eggs with actual yolks, caffeinated coffee and even pork-based cured meats. But any extraordinary riding skill or high-stakes route-finding will focus on getting back to the gated community in time for Briana Scurry’s 1:30 soccer kickoff.

I especially like this quote:

As any real dirt-bike rider knows, the next-to-last thing you want while traversing real mud, sand, rocks or water is a sharp-edged, $20,000, 500-pound motorcycle. The last thing you want is to find yourself alone, trapped underneath one.

Cromag 2008:

[e30addict]

FFY

I'd rock a 135 as a daily driver

[OreoGaborio]

FFY

The hell does that mean and when did you turn into a 14 year old?

[Chippertheripper]

Fixed for you. Advrider-speak.

That BMW looks like a scion. Nuff said.

[nhbubba]

I'll take mine in black!

Dog pee yellow please.

[e30addict]

Fixed for you. Advrider-speak.

That BMW looks like a scion. Nuff said.

400hp Scion.

[Garandman]

Kind Sir, I know not of what ye speak.

It means, "Fixed For You." Modifying a quoted post, in a way the second poster considers to be more correct or amusing. Putting after it is not generally considered necessary: the "FFY" is autotomatically considered to be a hack and not to be taken seriously.

For example,

Garandman is a giant dick.

To which my wife would respond:

Garandman has a giant dick.

FFY

Another example would be replacing the picture of an X6M [a highly capable but controversial model, considered by some purists to be "the end of the M brand"] with a BMW 135, their entry level vehicle, and a pink tuner model, at that, straining the initial analogy even farther.

You should know I have great fun with the terms "Adventure Bikes" or "Adventure Tourers" and have suggested Advrider.com should more properly be called Commuterrider.com. Since I own two of them, I'm poking fun at myself as well: don't care, because they're good bikes, which is the point. Our buddy Beez, who asked us to take a picture of him with his own camera while trapped under his GS [unhurt] also enjoys tweaking purists, despite being a far better rider than me or most of those he rides with.

[Chippertheripper]

That guy in the pic is way skinnier than I remember beez, and if that were the actual beez he should've known to flip the bird for a shot like that. I'm calling: imposter!

Edit: I like to call advrider: those who have dirtbikes for weed and coffee runs.

[Garandman]

Pic was 2008.

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Edit: I like to call advrider: those who have dirtbikes for weed and coffee runs.

Damn, effin' Bogarts been holding out on me. All I get is coffee and bacon.

[Chippertheripper]

Bacon? I can has?!

[trider143]

So much tension among the Adventure rider community

For the record, if I were doing more true adventure riding, I would have another BMW in my stable...

[Chippertheripper]

Oh, I'm tense alright. I haven't smoked weed in 12+ years, and I'm on a diet so bacon is out. I drink shittons of coffee though.

[Garandman]

Bacon wrapped grilled shrimp.

[Chippertheripper]

I don't know if I want to kiss you or kick you in the pills. [\hijack]

[TheIglu]

I took my wee adventuring today. I explored some unimproved roads.

Found a new gravel dragon, that's or sure. I'm positive I cold not of made it up this hill with the bike. Going down was a bit unnerving. Nobody knew where I was, I was 8 hours from home, on a road I had never been on, with a 450 lb non armored Wee. Going down was lugging it in first while speeding up nearly uncontrollably from loose gravel on a long downhill section. It was a bit hairy. Missed the klr for that one I tell ya.

[nhbubba]

450lbs?! How'd you get yours so light!

[e30addict]

with a BMW 135, their entry level vehicle, and a pink tuner model, at that, straining the initial analogy even farther.

That thing is pink? Fuck, I need to get my eyes checked. Looked white to me.