10 Things

Adventure Rider Issue #50

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Gimme Shelter with Karen Ramsay
• Where To From Here with Andy Strapz
• Wildlife with Miles Davis
• Beat The Rush
• Winter Ride To Nundle
• The Finke Desert Race Experience
• Hell’s Gate On The 2021 KTM1290R
• Desert Raid 2021
• Ural Adventure Ride
• Greg Yager’s Ténéré 700
• ADAMA 2-Wheel Trial Tour
• Motorcycle Cruise Controls
• 10 Things
• A Peach Of A Ride
• Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 Special
• Ramble In The Gawler Ranges
• It’s what we do

That’ll make you look like a dick It doesn’t matter how good a rider you are, all of us, at some stage, will end up looking a bit foolish. Sometimes it’s an honest mistake, but then there’s the other times.

Here’s 10 common examples.

Forgetting to turn off the ABS on a steep downhill

You won’t stop banging on about how modern bikes’ electronics are so frigging good you never disable any rider aids. Then you hit that once-in-a-decade, scary-AF downhill where you’re committed to the descent before you realise that, even with a death grip on the front brake and the rear pedal pushed down so hard the braided line is threaten-ing to burst, the bike is still accelerating, and accelerating fast.