Tour Tasmania by motorcycle
Tasmania is a motorcyclist paradise, discovered only by an adventurous few. Smooth winding roads in all areas make for a unique motorcycling experience.
With our range of top of the line current model motorcycles and our passionate staff, we’ll help you see Tasmania like you’ve never seen it before.
Bookings are essential: Get in touch today and we’ll assist you in the planning of your Tasmanian adventure.
The Moto Adventure Difference
- Friendly and personal service.
- Tasmanian resident for 30 years.
- Free maps and motorcycling tour advice.
- Tasmania’s largest fleet of hire motorbikes.
- Hire bikes are all late model, prestige brands.
- All rentals include the loan of free riding gear if required.
- Free luggage storage whilst you are riding.
- GPS rental. We now have Tom Tom motorcycle GPS for rental.
Luca Barozzi from Italy made this wonderful video which captures the ride he had in February 2010 on one of our BMW R1200GS’s
by admin on December 11, 2009
The Survey
The newsletter survey had a terrific response. We are still digesting the feedback we received.
We have already responded to some of the great suggestions you made:
- We have purchased half a dozen pairs of Draggin Classic Jeans for our female customers
- We now have more waterproof overpants and suits available
- We have an even wider range of bikes available for 2009/10 the latest additions being a new BMWG650GS and a new VTR250 Honda
The Prize
We promised a very nice DVD set of Charlie and Ewan’s excellent adventures.
These engaging fellows have done a wonderful job of publicising the many virtues of the BMW R1200GS. They have helped the big GS become BMW’s biggest selling motorcycle.
Moto Adventure would like to thank the handsome chaps who have also contributed to us to now running a fleet of 4 R1200GS’s to keep up with the demand.
The Prize Draw
The prize was drawn recently at Moto Adventure Central by a very special guest.
Happy Christmas to all our motorcycling friends
We hope to see a few of you down here in Tassie soon, but be safe and enjoy yourself wherever you go.
Cheers Ian and Mrs Stig.
by admin on November 5, 2009
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Moto Adventure’s BMW R1200R
LJK Setright,
was my favourite motorcycle journalist, who wrote for ‘Bike’ Magazine in the early 70’s. Setright often described long distance rides at ‘press on’ rates. He particularly loved long rapid rides on BMW’s, which he often described as a “Gentlemen’s express”.
I had a ride like that last weekend. Hobart to Scamander. Then back the next day.
The Road
The East Coast Highway should be on the world heritage list for great motorcycling roads of the world.
- Fast sweeping smooth bends,
- occasional tighter section, and
- stupendous coastal vistas over many crests and around many corners.
Glanced Out Of The Speed Induced Vision Tunnel
Every now and then I glanced out of the speed induced vision tunnel to notice the great beauty around me.
After the wettest winter on record, Tasmania’s east coast is the loveliest I have seen it in many years with full waterways, and green, green fields.
A Ride Like This, On A Bike Like This, Is Close To Heaven
I chose to take the R1200R for this trip – this bike shares the R1200GS mechanicals and suspension, but with a less unwieldy bodywork.
My short legs can comfortably reach the ground, and you don’t need the wide GS bars for a bitumen only trip.
A ride like this, on a warm calm day is close to heaven. I was not quite ‘at one’ with the bike on the way north, but on the return trip, I somehow got in the groove.
My braking points were just right, corner speed fine, and powering out of corners just worked.
A Magic Carpet Motorcycle
The R1200R becomes a magic carpet motorcycle in these circumstances.
The anti dive front suspension gives the impression of ‘slowing’ under the hardest braking.
The bike does not dive, or wriggle, the suspension still deals with the bumps, the bike just slows down.
The suspension still works for you as you flow around the corner, and the 1200cc twin just eases you back up to travel speed, without the need for gear changing, or hanging on to the handlebars for grim death.
I was very pleased that I had chosen this bike for that road on that particular day.
Regards
Ian
