Adventure Rider

Our bottom lips are trembling and there’s a little tear trickling down our whiskered cheeks.Adventure Rider Magazine’s Yamaha Ténéré 700has left the building. It was a cruisey few weeks for the Ténéré, with very little challenging riding. Things have been very quiet for the magazine’s Yamaha for this issue. With the pressures of the mag […]

Carrying clobber is part and parcel of adventure riding. There’s a few traps for young players with luggage which should be avoided, and a few tips which can make a ride run a lot smoother. Cop this lot…

A very special, purpose-built one-off. “Prepare to be intercepted!” A showstopper built for a double Simpson crossing. In issue #41 we ran a story called Beer With No Pub, and one of the riders was Craig ‘Mr T’ Murcott on a beautifully set up DR650. That was a couple of years ago, and Craig, a

Everyone has friends who feel like family. Marty Blake had the chance to ride with some good friends from his youth, who over time had actually become family…sort of. A few creek crossings were done multiple times for the camera. As kids the best riders of our crew were identical twins Rick and Mark Rann.

A motorcycle rally rider who finds enormous satisfaction in teaching others how to master off-road riding skills, ex-pat Aussie Simon Pavey is a maverick racer and off-road guru. He was happy to share a few stories with Graeme Sedgwick. Simon Pavey levelling Dakar sand dunes. GS: What inspired Downunder-born Simon to relocate to the northern

Corey Pearson was shopping online for Husky 701 parts when he received an email announcing a Husky Trek adventure ride for 2000km over five days. He enrolled at hyper speed. Nordens were included in the Trek for the first time this year. Kyle Gilmore (left) tackled all the chilli sections. Greg McFarlane’s bike carried enough

A killer midweight dualsporter? You bet! It never felt as though the Tuareg was going to take control away from the rider. Aprilia’s a name not normally closely associated with the adventure market. There was the Caponord we rode way back in issue #13, but we’ve not seen anything since. Now the Italian marque is

Having a bike stolen is a heartbreaker. There’s not only the expense of replacing the bike, it also often means the loss of something irreplaceable – usually for sentimental reasons, but just as often because a build has made a particular bike unique. There are some different angles of approach when considering bike security. Here’s

There was word on the grapevine of a ride to Bathurst and Parkes in the middle of winter. Hopper managed to jag an invite. Bruce decided to bypass an easy section of mud and ended up with his 690 buried to the swingarm. With morning temperatures predicted to be minus-four, it was with some foreboding

Triumph’s all-new Tiger 1200s copped a thrashing through challenging terrain in South Australia. The Rally Pro had the 20-litre tank and no radar or heated seats, but we didn’t feel the lack. Australia has been waiting for the all-new Tiger 1200s for quite a while – not as long as everyone waited for the Ténéré