Motorcyle in

[Jager]

Lmao

Sorry mate. You have certainly done some work on it, cannot see the pics though, it better be the new yamacam.

 

[rodney482]

Cant see your pics

 

[Stinky Coyote]

pics fixed, just have to go back to page 1 to see em, plus bike is all cleaned up from last ride I sunk in a couple mudholes and drown in a couple water crossings, so now would be a good time to get some pics of it as usually when you see it most don't know what kind of bike it is when filthy and struggle to identify it when clean too

 

[Hunt'nFish]

Yep, Here's a pic of my buddy Blake w/ a couple T110's we used.
Pros: cheap & sipped the fuel, never had to carry fuel, nice gear rack and low range was nice.
Cons: suspension & ground clearance, and lack of horsepower. Would've prefered more HP and wider gear spacing than the low range tranny would allow.
But we made them work and they did the job. Fun even.
Hunt'nFish

 

[Stinky Coyote]

I need to try one of those 110's someday, there is a bike I'm on waiting list for called fx bikes....hey Jager r they running around your part of world yet, pretty sure they originated in Aussie land, like a 125 lb 125 cc downhill mountain bike...looks fun as all get out

 

[blb078]

How far in do some of you typically get? You just use existing trails and game trails or just go were ever you can? I've been toying w/the idea of a bicycle and a single wheel cargo cart for areas w/no motorized vehicles.

 

[muleman]

How far in do some of you typically get? You just use existing trails and game trails or just go were ever you can? I've been toying w/the idea of a bicycle and a single wheel cargo cart for areas w/no motorized vehicles.

I personally hope that Roksliders aren't cutting new trails on public land!

Over a period of 10 years I had one of my goto areas ruined by unauthorized trails. Every year the trail would get more defined and intrude further in. It didn't matter that every year barricades would be placed. The unethical chumps would either tear them down or go around.

As hunters we need to respect the land if only for our own benefit. Please don't abuse the land by cutting unauthorized trails.

 

[blb078]

Ok, now that we have that out of the way, anyone able to answer my question on how you use your bike?

 

[muleman]

Ok, now that we have that out of the way, anyone able to answer my question on how you use your bike?

Ride in about 7 miles and gain around 2,500 feet in elevation.

No desire to pick a fight with you. Just pointing out there's ethics involved in OHV use that your original post seemed to be skirting. It's easy to get caught up in pushing the limits. Been there myself.

When I ride in it is to cover a lot of ground fast without a lot of effort. The bike usually stays parked for the rest of the hunt unless moving camp or hunting an area several miles away.

 

[Snyd]

Does this count?

 

[muleman]

Does this count?

Nice! I think that even qualifies as DIY

 

[Jager]

A wild looking beast there Stinky, you could have had a red seat though, yours is almost camo. lol

I have a few mates that are mad on bikes, will ask them about the fx.

Muleman, what ethics are you referring too?

 

[weaver]

Ok, now that we have that out of the way, anyone able to answer my question on how you use your bike?

Were i hunt it is illeagal to take a motorcycle off a designated trail. Not sure about a bicycle.

 

[muleman]

Muleman, what ethics are you referring too?

I'm highly sensitive to Off Highway Vehicle abuse. On American public land there are strict rules on what can be done. Generally in most mountainous areas mechanical devices are resticted to trails or a certain diastance from a trail. For instance trails can be designated as follows.
Foot traffic only
Foot and pack animal
Foot, pack animal, bike
Foot, pack animal, bike, motorcycle
Foot, pack animal, bike, OHV 53 inches or less
Foot, pack animal, bike, all OHVs.

We also have designated wilderness areas where no mechanical method of transport is allowed. To preserve the "wild" in the wilderness.

In addition to the OHV abuse on and off trail, I have found snomobile parts in the middle on wilderness areas. So when I saw the question " You just use existing trails and game trails OR JUST GO WERE EVER YOU CAN?" I wanted to make sure people knew and were following the laws on the land they were using.

Im not accusing anyone of being unethical. Just pointing out as hunters we should know the laws for the land we are on and follow them.

 

[Mad Mountain Mike]

Good on ya for bringing this issue to the forefront. There are areas in Alberta where old fire roads go deep into the alpine and ohv's are allowed to use them but not stray from them. Most people appreciate the privilege and adhere to the rules maintaining the beauty of the land they are in. There are other areas how ever where the rules are relaxed, the trails and forest around them are terribly abused.

 

[Drdantdc]

I have a 78 ROKON. I've used to haul out a few Elk. As you know, it will go were no other vehicle will go. You can't really, ethically hunt off of any vehicle. I don't have a problem with using one for getting something out legally. I use mine just for fun.

 

[Hunt'nFish]

In Oregon we can use them on roads & certain trails w/ OHV permit. They have thier uses in some places, others you can't use motor vehicles at all. Just depends on the area & rules. But when your talking ROUGH roads, you can get around way faster on a bike than in a 4x4. And when you consider there are bike trail shortcuts between road systems, it's even faster.
Hunt'nFish

 

[Mike7]

Snyd, those are some nice looking trailers. Do you have any close up pictures of your bicycle trailers and their seatpost hitch mounts particularly? Did you make these? Do they also attach to the back of your pack belts? I have a homemade bicycle trailer, and really like to get new ideas and see how other people do things. Maybe that would be a good thread of its own?

The coolest bicycle trailers I have ever seen in the backcountry, was made by a couple of old guys who were ex-Boeing engineers. They were long narrow bicycle trailers shaped like airplane bodies and made out of welded aluminum tubing. Those things could carry a lot of gear while weighing very little. They even had someone report them to the patrolling U.S. Marshall the day before I met up with them, because apparently the guy who reported them hiked in there and saw their canvas cabin tent with large wood stove & couldn't believe that all of that came in on bicycle trailers. They just did a little demonstration for Marshall when he met them at their camp after a day of hunting.

I run into a couple of unethical motorcycle or ATV riders every year (usually hunters sadly enough) riding right into clearly marked and gated closed areas during the day, tearing trails up, and hunting from their vehicles instead of just going in to retrieve game even. This really flames me...especially when my kids are with me and have made the effort to follow the rules and walk in with me 3 miles in the dark on one of their few days a year they get a chance to hunt...and these lazy fat &%#$#*'s come riding by our setup just after first light.

 

[rodney482]

Perfectly legal to use a 2 wheeled motorized conveyance where I hunt... You can only take it so far and you can not travel off the trail.

We use it to pack in and pack out meat.

make sure you know the law where you are hunting.

 

[Stinky Coyote]

heres a tw200 in a more beastly form for ya Rodney, not sure what rokon's are worth but you can find a tw200 very cheaply in the used market and build it up, guys have found very low mileage gems for less than 1500 bucks etc. lots get bought as campground or RV bikes and used very little and with such a long production run they always turn up, very easy to ride in terms of two wheelers, lots of motorcycle schools apparently use them to teach people to ride due to that

kind of a tank here and wasn't long after I got it

here is a pic from the day I broke lots of trail for a stock tw200 when there was too much snow, I could start and stop at will, make circles and come back, start more trail and as said on some non snow slopes where the frost was just under surface and it was grease on top the stocker couldn't climb but the beast with that bighorn on the back could...but pretty extreme for bikes, the quad would have been much more useful, mind you we rode legal roadways to get to this area on the bikes

and I had to leave a stocker part way up the hill to get up to this spot, rider was just too tired fighting all the plate size rock all the way up was a forearm workout and then some, crazy climb so I snapped lots of pics up top, not long after a jeep rubicon came up behind me, we were both surprised to see each other

well I figured out the picture posting thing gall darn it!

oh and the tw200 is pretty easy on terra firma, its not a bike that gets places by wheel spin and momentum, its does it with traction etc. so its like the golf cart of bikes ....did I mention it was street legal and guys even travel the world on them? pretty versatile if a guy only gets out for a few rides a year imo, that's the game, buy em used, cheap, and set up em, I've seen them with atv plastic gun scabbards on sides of them, racks of all sizes available front or rear etc. its a do all machine