Andy Strapz

Adventure Rider Issue #27

• Checkout
• Fit Out
• Unlucky Dip with Karen Ramsay
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Trophy Bound
• Andy Strapz
• Flinders Three-Day
• Ural Adventure Ride
• Off And On
• Riding reporters
• Over The Top
• Vietnam
• Ducati Multistrada1200 Enduro Pro
• KTM Rallye NZ
• It’s What We Do
• ’Strom Troopers
• Motorrad Garage KLR650

Looky, looky

Andy Strapz has vision and he assumes everyone else needs glasses. It’s a safe philosophy.

Washes of ball-bearing gravel can be freckle-puckering.

In my past life in a hospital emergency department (workin’ there) the last ‘S’ in the well-known ‘KISS’ principle was taken to stand for ‘safe’.

Rocket surgery isn’t one of my strong points, and I like those short-but-instructive sayings that point the way in life. They’re little groups of words I can draw on in those ‘Oh shit. I smell Dettol’ moments…things like: ‘if in doubt, power out’, ‘keep a tight chain’, and ‘look where ya wanna go’. They’ve all helped keep my bones on the inside of my skin over the years, and the KISS principle might have been developed just for me.