Touring the Himilayas

[DaveC]

Found this over on ADVrider.
it is a slide show (http://www.endurohimalaya.com/gallery.htm)
220 images, some great shots.

[CBAT]

That was a nice daydream getaway. Thanks for the link.

[mefx]

I subscribe to a couple of British bike mags and this ride was featured in TWO this month they say it is a very demanding ride. Wish I could afford to try.

[Joan]

That little slideshow http://www.endurohimalaya.com/gallery.htm is showing up everywhere! Just watched it today and a wellspent 20 mins it was. By the end I was ready to lay down the plastic and GO!

A few deep breaths later, I did the math and exchange rate. $6739 USD plus another $900+ for RT USA - Heathrow (the trip starts with a London - Delhi flight), and you gotta buy your own lunches, gas, trinkets and beer, then there's the guide and other tipping, and the hanging out in in the British countryside testing the whisky with your UK dualsporting friends... and the truly sad part: only nine actual days of riding in the Himalayas.

For that kind of dosh I could buy my own international medevac insurance, fly myself to Delhi, buy a new or used Suzy/Kawi/Hondapotamus, spend maybe $100/day on gas, food, camping/hosteling, have a kick in the pants unguided ride in the country for two or three weeks, sell/donate the bike and fly home for close to half the total expense of that tour...

Wouldn't be fun without a dozen or so of my closest biker friends, though. :shrug:

[Pushin50]

Looking at the slides, the 'enduros' they appear to be riding are Royal Enfield Bullets. So you COULD buy one, do the ride, sell it, and get back cheaper - if you like making your own arrangements and sleeping/eating where you can. On the Bullet Mania list a fellow just did that, in fact.
just goes to show with a little perserverence ANYTHING is possible.
Get a copy of One Man Caravan, by RE Fulton Jr. and be amazed at what an underpowered, unsophisticated machine with a remarkable rider was able to do in the '30s.
R

[FZ6biker]

It's a late response but yes those are Royal Enfield Bullets they are riding. Best suited for the harsh terrain and road conditions over there, also easily availibility of parts and almost every corner street mechanic can fix that bike anywhere in India.

[FZ6biker]

That little slideshow http://www.endurohimalaya.com/gallery.htm is showing up everywhere! Just watched it today and a wellspent 20 mins it was. By the end I was ready to lay down the plastic and GO!

A few deep breaths later, I did the math and exchange rate. $6739 USD plus another $900+ for RT USA - Heathrow (the trip starts with a London - Delhi flight), and you gotta buy your own lunches, gas, trinkets and beer, then there's the guide and other tipping, and the hanging out in in the British countryside testing the whisky with your UK dualsporting friends... and the truly sad part: only nine actual days of riding in the Himalayas.

For that kind of dosh I could buy my own international medevac insurance, fly myself to Delhi, buy a new or used Suzy/Kawi/Hondapotamus, spend maybe $100/day on gas, food, camping/hosteling, have a kick in the pants unguided ride in the country for two or three weeks, sell/donate the bike and fly home for close to half the total expense of that tour...

Wouldn't be fun without a dozen or so of my closest biker friends, though. :shrug:

+1 count me in :rider:

[zaphodbebleebrox]

hey Joan, do you mind if I buy some life insurance on you before you go.

you would surely die out there.

if you didnt fall off a mountain, wash away in the rapids, get nailed by a falling boulder the size
of a VW, catch cholera - then the villagers would surely eat you.

they look mighty skinny & hungry to me.

[ToroGuy]

WOW!! :clap: Missed this thread until now.

I gotta get out more...