The rocks of Western Australia’s Pilbara record billions of years of Earth’s history. In 2022, the seventh year of the MidWest Or Bust ride, the Perth Adventure Riders once again headed out to sample this truly ancient landscape. A section of track with erosion mounds was a high-light, and Julian Pope created a new discipline: […]
I’ve never understood why manufacturers insisted on offering such tall bikes to adventure riders. It seems to me, the bigger and heavier the bike, the more advantageous it is for the rider to be able to get both feet on the ground. And yet, for a while there, it seemed we were constantly having to
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Miles covers body position and staying loose on the bike. Arch your back slightly. Don’t try to stand up as tall as possible. Aim for slightly soft knees, a slightly arched back and soften the arms down to the ’bars. It’s incredible how smooth elite off-road riders can look as they manage their bikes on
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Think, and protect our sport. It’s time to take some responsibility. What we do on our own or as a group represents our sport. All of us on two wheels – enduro, adventure, café racer, big-bore tourer or what-ever – are all seen as one group: motorbike riders.The environment has changed. With the explosion in
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I‘m not sure if it’s since COVID and all the lockdowns and I’ve just had more time to notice, but there seems to be an ever-expanding number of adventure-bike tour groups around. Although I like to think Dave and I just ‘wing it’ and go where the roads take us, the truth is, most of
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Like you, good reader, I don’t mind sitting up late on a Sunday night with a blanket across my lap, in a quiet house with a block of chocolate, absorbing an international road race on the telly. I reckon it’s one of the last great gladiatorial sports. MotoGP riders banging fairings, dragging elbows on the
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Adventure Rider Magazine’s Yamaha Ténéré 700 is taking shape. Comfortable over long distances on the road, but still at home hitting tough off-road trails. It’d be fair to say we’ve given the Shop Bike a fair shellacking since the last update in issue #52. A run with RideADV in Victoria meant a lazy 1000km blast
and the two-day Tenterfield terror Marty HC stared down a tough weekend ride. The road was a mess. Four-wheel-drives had shredded the surface into a maze of criss-crossing, slimy, deep ruts and only a skinny bank on the high side offered hope before tackling the remaining ruts at a right angle. The more I looked
