Zukin – aka Scott good Buddy (and other adventurers watching this thread) – you have my enthuiastic commitment to this idea subject only to attempting to maintain some time with my long suffering wife who indulges my motorcycling fanaticism. In this vein I sefishly have a preference for central and lower North Island.Like you, I to have travelled too fast through some amazing country without stopping to 'smell the coffee' so to speak. Witness 4,000Km over 8 days going to and from the BMWOR Rally earlier this month with Ian.SKey to happy campers on this IMHO is 1 realisation that GS's (generalising here) are not a trail bike (they're blinking heavy even in their 1200, Dakar and F650GS guise) AND ideally they need to be suitablly shod with TKC80's or similar. Also - expectations about the likely difficulty of terrain / required skill level need to be made clear 'up front'. Also - folks must feel free not to proceed when they sense something is beyond their confidence / skill level - in my recent case I felt free to wimp out on the river crossings entailed in taking my 1150 to Macetown in Central Otago - thanks for your understanding Ian.SCheers S aka Aslan 

Central and lower North Island work for me at short notice. Further afield is not impossible. I am fairly new to the GS game but I am a big boy who can say no. Plus I can pick them up again by myself without crying  😀  I tend to favour cheap accomadation because I am miserable like that  👿 and have been known to snore. Thats all the warning you need

Great idea.

Sounds good I'm in what is your new bike Kiwi Adventure

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I'm in, as work, garden and house renovations permit – will go anywhere, usually  😀I don't do tents or sleeping bags anymore  😎