Adventure Rider

If you’re not carrying some kind of satellite tracker or communication device, you’re a mug. There’s a few different types available that allow various levels of communication, but when someone’s life is hanging in the balance, it’s hard to beat a PLB. There should be a PLB in every group of riders. Adventure riding often […]

Honda’s Africa Twin is getting plenty of praise, but we know from experience new owners will seldom have anything bad to say about a bike they’ve just paid for. We grabbed someone whose opinion we valued and asked him for his early thoughts on the new bike with the old name. Inverell, NSW, is a

Talented road racer Maria Costello MBE has mastered the treacherous Isle of Man TT circuit. But she’d never ridden an adventure bike until the 2016 Ténéré Tragics… Dry creek beds had become reddish-brown torrents. DDay one of the Ténéré Tragics River To Ranges Run saw temperatures of 40 degrees in the shade – if any

It’s winter. Days are short, temperatures are low, and there’s rain about. The second thing on every rider’s mind is a good jacket. A waterproof liner should ideally be the outermost layer, and it needs to be in place before the rider or any apparel get wet. Jackets are all about protection: protection from impact

Lou Leeuwrik found out something very quirky about Cameron Corner. Why would anybody want to spend New Year’s Eve at Cameron Corner? Easy. It’s because you get to celebrate the occasion three times in one-and-a-half hours. That’s why we’re called adventurers. We do things on impulse and to have things to talk about in our

Ready to tackle The Big One. The BMW GS Safari Enduro is moving ever nearer. And while we rate the GS Safari as one of our favourite Australian rides, we rate the GS Safari Enduro just that one notch higher because we especially love the greater challenge and higher level of commitment needed to make

If you’ve ever wondered about the value of a GPS tracker for adventure riding, here’s a story that will make it very clear. Every adventure rider should carry one. Maschine’s Nick Selleck tells what happened. On the first of the recent TransTerra rides in south-east NSW (see issue #15), the Maschine support team got a

Karen Ramsay went above and beyond her usual column for this issue. Along with husband Ramdog Dave, she headed to Thailand for her first overseas adventure-riding experience. A tourist-selfie at Chiang Mai I had little idea of what to expect before heading on our first overseas riding trip. We’d booked flights into Thailand, a sleeper

Ducati as a company prides itself on its passion for motorcycles and striving for premium quality in all it does. The new Multistrada Enduro demonstrates those values in every way. A loose translation of the Italian ‘multistrada’ would be something like ‘many roads’. In the context of motorcycling, it’s probably fair to say ‘dualsport’. For

Success at the 2016 Dakar has meant a whirlwind of media commitments for Toby Price. We’re glad to say the 28-year-old pro racer from Maitland, NSW, doesn’t seem to have changed much since we first spoke to him a decade or so ago. He’s still a down-to-earth, happy, genuine bloke with a love of bikes