'Vintage' ADV bikes? or DS bikes?

[seavoyage]

Any recommendations for an inexpensive but capable ADV or DS bike?

Sticker Shock!: A 2013 BMW R1200GSA w/ premium package: MSRP $20,495 before hitting TouraTech to get it properly equipped.

Let's follow olhogrider's lead: Do the ADV/DS thing with Style!

Reality Check! olhogrider shows us every month how it should be done with style on his Triumph Bonneville w/ windshield and leather saddle bags... then swaps for an olive drab Scrambler shod with Heidenau to emulate Steve McQueen jumps on the Carnegie MX track

Ironbutt campained Lunch_Box's early '90s DR250 on the LA-Barstow-Vegas desert ride. I rode the same DR250 in the 2012 Sheetiron 300.

Austin Vince's Suzuki DR350​

What can achieved with 20-year old or older air-cooled twins or thumpers a la Ted Simon or Austin Vince? Link to The H.U.B.B.

Ted Simon's Triumph Tiger 100 "Jupiter'​

Thinking classic Americana?

1953 Harley-Davidson KK @ Yoshi's Garage​

How about a Desert Sled

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or Euro Paris-Dakar style:

1981 BMW Works Paris-Dakar

1981 Ducati 750

1979 MotoGuzzi 500 TT​

On to the Thumpers:

1976 Yamaha TT500

Harley-Davidson MT350E

1980 Kawasaki KL250

1980 Vespa Dakar
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and the Smokers:

1968 Greeves 360 Bitubo Challenger

1973 Maico WheelSmith MC400

Steve McQueen's 1970 Husqvarna 400 Cross
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or New School:

2000 MZ 660 Baghira

ATK 605

1990 BMW R80GS
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[WeekEndWarrior]

Oh the awesomeness of the / bike

 

[seavoyage]

November 1966 issue of Popular Science

 

[ThumperX]

We have one of each of these. They seem to do a great job all of them. The Gran Canyons can be had super cheap and the Ducati 900 motor is a truck

The ATK is a beast and gets a lot of attention and loads up on the van nice

The Bultacos are sort of like pets. We bring them out every now and again.

Not really vintage well I guess the Bultaco is but would I call it an Adventure bike?

 

[mtbjeff]

it's a smoker!

My plated 1981 Husquvarna 430WR

 

[Warrior Princess]

nice^

 

[CWH]

Obviously, one of these:

http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/yamaha/yamaha_dt400 74.htm

 

[Sharky]

I remember my buddies dads bultaco 350 something. The thing was a true mountain goat. Just get used to doing the shifting a brake work with the wrong feet.