Reader’s Bike: Steve Evans’ HP2

Adventure Rider Issue #3

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Steve Evans’ HP2
• 10 Minutes With: Sam Sunderland
• 20 Things You Should Know About: KTM’s 950/990
• Reader’s Ride: The Flinders Ranges, SA
• Rules To Ride By with John Hudson
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Suspension with Nick Dole
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• Girl’s Talk with Karen Ramsay
• Wish You Were Here
• KTM 700RR
• Triumph 1200 Explorer
• Kawasaki KLR650
• Ol’ Mate
• Motohansa R1200GS
• Reader’s Pic
• Gear With A Story
• VSM DRZ400S
• Industry Players: Andy Strapz
• Mongolia
• The Adventure Challenge
• Cape York
• It’s What We Do

2006 BMW HP2 Enduro

There’s a couple of questions that just have to be asked when you meet someone who takes an exotic BMW HP2 and then builds it specifically for the Finke Desert Race. The first is, Why an HP2? The model run finished in 2008, so why that particular bike? And then why the Finke?

Steve Evans, a serious HP2 fan (not the kind on the radiator).

“Out here you require a bike that’s a bit more dirt-oriented,” explained Steve, 43, a builder now living in the Northern Territory, “and I love the brand. BMW is the only brand of bike I buy.