Reader’s bike

Adventure Rider Issue #9

• Reader’s bike
• Wish you were here
• Luxury Holiday
• Karen Ramsay
• Dual Sports
• Ol mate
• Touratech
• Reader’s Ride
• John Hudson
• Preparing for adventure Pre-trip servicing
• Cuba
• Tankbags
• It’s what we do
• Simpson

We’ve been challenging readers to come up with a better deal than our own $2000 KLR. Here’s a couple of owners who say they’ve done even better. What’s your call? Have they outdone Adventure Rider Magazine with the deal of the decade? Email and let us know.

Mark Stayt’s 2002 XR650R

I managed to purchase a 2002 Honda XR650R with 1500km on the odometer for under $5000,” XRed Mark over the internooky.

“I got another 1000km out of the rear tyre, dismantled the steering head and swing-arm linkages and repacked them with grease.

Then I added a 17-litre Clarke tank and a rack. I’m yet to fit a B&B bashplate.