The Bosnia Quest

Roman, the Bosnia Quest organiser, has worked on the concept for over eight years. His dream was to bring riders from all over the world to enjoy the diverse terrain, company of other like-minded adventurers and add some competitive aspects to spice up the adventure. Roman, fellow organiser Tomaz and many others mapped out a series of GPS routes geocaching waypoints where they nailed small metal tags( 100mm x 25mm) to trees or sign posts, sometimes in plain sight and other times slightly hidden. The object was to find as many of the checks as possible, recording the random serial number on them. The more difficult the terrain / course to get to the check points and find the tags, the more points earned. From 500 points at a sealed road water fountain checkpoint to 3000 points for the most difficult adventure route high in the mountains on a rocky climb and corresponding values in between. Some tags were missing, possibly removed by locals as they’ d been positioned up to 8 months previously, but a photo of where you thought it should be served as proof. The challenge was to find and record as many tags in the allotted 4 days riding. The variety of course difficulty reflected the desire to include all types of adventure bikes from dedicated trail bikes to the biggest BMWs and KTMs. Our three Honda CRF300s were the smallest by far. The day before the official start, we shot into Sarajevo to fit new tyres to the Hondas. The tyre service was rudimentary, so Greg supervised his tyres being fitted( to the annoyance of the mechanic). He didn’ t have any problems even though he ran only 23psi, but the next morning, Tim’ s rear tyre was flat with a pinched tube. Perching the Honda on a random concrete ruin, the repair was done and we were on our way. With 15 different countries represented, we entered our multinational team, Kiwi Plus. The