Wales - Adventure Bike Festival

[GS Bloke]

One word.... awesome....
My first proper river crossing
We rode up the side of a long reservoir, so dusty and being near the back I looked like someone had dumped a bag of flour over me... but then it pi##ed it down and washed it all off

The knobblies did their job very well

 

[donkeh]

Nice one.

I recognise that Adventure - is it Dom's ?

Edit: Dom says yes it is his bike

 

[GS Bloke]

Dom is right, it is his KTM

 

[darkhorse]

saw lots of adventurers when I was up in Wales this weekend.

 

[Rasher]

The S10 looks great on those knobblies

Pity they are crap on the roads I spend 99.5% of my time on

 

[GS Bloke]

Pity they are crap on the roads I spend 99.5% of my time on

Your kidding me... they are just as good as road tyres on tarmac, I was scrapping the pegs with these rubbers

 

[Ban_6]

@ GS Bloke: Was this an organised run or did you go with a few buddies ?

Pics look pretty cool, any gopro vids ???

Would like to do some off road stuff but get tuition so i dont bust the one good leg I have left.

What tyres them you got on ?

 

[GS Bloke]

@ GS Bloke: Was this an organised run or did you go with a few buddies ?

Pics look pretty cool, any gopro vids ???

Would like to do some off road stuff but get tuition so i dont bust the one good leg I have left.

What tyres them you got on ?

It was a organised event that got us over to Wales, but this ride out was self found and wasn't part of the event, it was an 8 mile run and was over far too soon
http://www.adventurebikefestival.co.uk/

Someone did do a video but it'll be a while before he has finished editing it and I hope the camera wasn't covered in dust

The tyres are Continental TKC's 'Twinduro'
http://www.conti-bike.co.uk/default.asp?spid=12

I plan to return and do it all again

 

[Rasher]

Your kidding me... they are just as good as road tyres on tarmac, I was scrapping the pegs with these rubbers

Interesting, have you tried them on wet tarmac yet?

I have heard a lot of good things about K60's with regard to grip and life, with the only real caveat being wet weather performance.

May be tempted to try something knobbly over the winter as I only tend to potter around country lanes "off-season"

 

[GS Bloke]

We were in Wales so of course I rode in the wet, in fact I rode in a thunder storm..
We were 32 miles from the camp site when it started to heavily rain and I remembered I had left the vents open on my tent, I hooned it back, riding on the wet edge of the clouds which were heading in the same direction, got back just as it started to rain.
Sunday - 2 massive down pours and I rode the same as I would if I was on my Conti Trial Attacks... the only sliding was done on Sheep Sh#t..

The only downside to these TKC are they don't do the mileage of a regular rubber, they make for some interesting vibes at low speed and they are a bit noisy at speed, like a wha wha wha noise

 

[Rasher]

The only downside to these TKC are they don't do the mileage of a regular rubber, they make for some interesting vibes at low speed and they are a bit noisy at speed, like a wha wha wha noise

I think the K60's cure the noise, and many folk in the states report about twice the life of road rubber - but perhaps the reason they last so long is the road grip is not so good?

Might just fit some TKC's so I can look at it sat in the garage over winter

 

[GS Bloke]

I expect the rubber compound is much harder so wears less, downside is grip on tarmac...

Winter's aren't supposed to matter when you have this type of bike, I thought it was only Harley and Sports bike riders that hibernated their bikes over the winter...

Get some knobbiles and get out in the snow...