10 Minutes With: Sam Sunderland

Adventure Rider Issue #3

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Steve Evans’ HP2
• 10 Minutes With: Sam Sunderland
• 20 Things You Should Know About: KTM’s 950/990
• Reader’s Ride: The Flinders Ranges, SA
• Rules To Ride By with John Hudson
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Suspension with Nick Dole
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• Girl’s Talk with Karen Ramsay
• Wish You Were Here
• KTM 700RR
• Triumph 1200 Explorer
• Kawasaki KLR650
• Ol’ Mate
• Motohansa R1200GS
• Reader’s Pic
• Gear With A Story
• VSM DRZ400S
• Industry Players: Andy Strapz
• Mongolia
• The Adventure Challenge
• Cape York
• It’s What We Do

Sam Sunderland Honda Factory rally pilot

five-man team for the 2014 Rally Raids included a young Brit ex-motocrosser who took out the Merzouga Rally Raid in Morocco as a warm up in October. As we go to print Dakar is just setting up, and Sam Sunderland must be considered a contender.

AdvR: How did you get into riding bikes?
SS: I was always playing on my BMX when I was really young, and my next-door neighbour used to have bikes. He invited me along one day and it all started from there. I was lucky because my grandparents had a dairy farm which made it easier for me to practice.